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UncleT's Jukebox (v2.02) RELEASED. Many new features, updated look and feel

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CCM:
WOW!  The jukebox software looks great!!  I've been thinking about building a dedicated jukebox cab for a while now, and you may have just pushed me over the edge!  And now I want a touchscreen too, I think you are going to cost me some money!  Great work!

Anyone else used this with a touchscreen yet?

unclet:
Here is text from the HELP page which indicates what format must be used along with how to load the jukebox:


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L I B R A R Y   D I R E C T O R Y   F O R M A T

Audio and video files (to be known as "song tracks" from now on) must be categorized in a specific manner.  Each artist should have their own directory.  Each album associated with an artist should be listed as a subdirectory within the artist directory.  The song files of an album should be listed as filenames within the album directory.   All song files can be assigned a two digit track number or a two digit track number can be assign automatically.

** The first two characters of the artist and album name must be alphanumeric only if you want the search function to work properly.

One image file may exist to represent the cover art to be used for that album.  The image file must have the exact same file name as the associated album.
 
Each song file can have an associated text file which is used to store the lyrics of the song file.  The lyrics file must have the exact same file name as the associated song file.

Two examples of valid directory structures are shown below:


EXAMPLE 1:                         EXAMPLE 2:

...\MusicDirectoryPath1            ...\MusicDirectoryPath1
      \Artist1                           \Artist1
         \Album1                            \Album1
            \Album1.jpg                        \Album1.jpg
            \01 - Song1.mp3                    \Song1.mp3
            \01 - Song1.mpg                    \Song1.mpg
            \01 - Song1.txt                    \Song1.txt
            \02) Song2.mp3                     \Song2.mp3
            \02) Song2.txt                     \Song2.txt
            \03.Song3.mpg                      \Song3.mpg
            \03.Song3.txt                      \Song3.txt
         \Album2                            \Album2
         \Album3                            \Album3
      \Artist2                           \Artist2
         \Album4                            \Album4
         \Album5                            \Album5


Example 1:
Shows the format required when track numbers are being provided within the filename.  The track number used must be one or two characters in length and must be the first characters of the file name.  The track number and song name must be separated by either a dash, underscore, period, closeParen or space character.

Example 2:
Shows the format required when track numbers are to be provided automatically when loading the library occurs.

In the examples which are listed above you will notice a song track (ex: Song1) can be represented by an audio file as well as a video file.  Sometimes a video of a song is not as clear sounding as the CD version of the song (especially if the video is of a live performance).  Allowing one song file to be stored as two separate formats provides the user the ability to have two different formats of the song under the same album directory as well as providing an easier way for the user to select a different format of a song to play.

Valid extensions include:

AUDIO files: MP3
VIDEO files: MPG MPEG AVI WMA WMV ASF ASX WPL WM WMX WMD WMZ
IMAGE files: JPG, GIF, BMP, JPEG, ICO
LYRIC files: TXT


L O A D I N G   S O N G S   I N T O   T H E   L I B R A R Y

After your songs have been categorized according to the required format described above, you can now proceed to loading the songs into the library.

Steps to load songs into the library are as follows:

1) Click on the "Options" button (located in pullout menu)

2) Select the "Music Directories" option

3) Locate your music directory path and click the "Add Path" button (repeat this step until all your music directories have been added)

4) Click the "Update Album List" button.

There are two main options provided when loading songs into the library:

- The "Reload available albums" option will result in all albums (new and existing) in the library being renumbered sequentially in an alphabetical manner.

- The "Update albums" option will result in maintaining the assigned album numbers for existing library albums while assigning new numbers to any newly loaded albums only.  This means your alphabetical list of album names might not have sequential assigned album numbers.

Note: The "Update albums" option was included because I have young children who memorized their favorite album numbers and I did not want these album numbers potentially to change as a result of loading new albums into my library.  Any new albums which are loaded get a new assigned number while my existing albums maintain their previous assigned numbers.
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unclet:
UncleT's Jukebox (v2.02) RELEASED .... (see link below)

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=65281.msg655947#msg655947

All future release notifications will occur in the "Audio/Jukebox/MP3" forum.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/board,5.0.html

If you wish to report a bug, enhancement idea, etc .... please make those in the "UncleTs Jukebox" forum:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/board,22.0.html

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