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Commercial Version
Commercial Version (Spanish)
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The
Main screen looks and feels like a regular CD jukebox, where you view
"pages"
of
4 CDs at a time. Each CD panel has the CD number, title, artist, genre at the top,
the cover art to the left, and the song listings to the right. You can see which
songs are the most popular by the green bars next to the song name, with the most
played songs having up to 3 green bars. This takes the guesswork out of picking a
song from particular CD where you don
't know the song names.
Unlike a CD jukebox, here you can jump directly from the top to bottom or from
one style of music to the next... You can even jump to the page that has the
currently playing song or the song that is to be played next... You pick songs
by either entering its number (the CD number and then the track number) using
the numbered keys, or by selecting the song and pressing enter, or simply double-
clicking on it... You can play a whole CD just by double-clicking on the cover
art...
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The
Search screen allows you to search for either songs, artist, CD titles or
everything based upon the key words you enter. JukeANator will perform partial
word matching to ensure that even if you spell a word wrong, you will still find
what you are looking for. Using the
"Back"
button on the control panel, you can
even go back to prior searches.
The reason why you see an on-screen
keyboard is that JukeANator can be used without a keyboard and mouse using just a
touch-screen. This feature is necessary for the commercial version that is housed
in a custom cabinet in a bar or pool hall, and comes in very handy at a party in
"kiosk"
mode where you want guests to interact with the jukebox, but don
't want them
to access the rest of your computer.
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Commercial Version (Spanish)
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Commercial Version (Spanish)
Non-commercial Version
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The
Popular screen goes beyond what you find in most other jukeboxes...
Here, you can view the most played individual songs or entire CDs with the most
collective plays... You can even view
"power"
rankings in which songs or CDs with
the most plays in the fewest amount of days are shown at the top... You can view
either the top 50, top 100 or top 500 for either songs or CDs.
A unique feature of JukeANator is the
"recent"
display. If the
"view"
is set to
CD, then you will actually be looking at the newest CDs that have been added to
the jukebox. You will see a visual cue to this because new CDs will have a red
border. This comes in handy if you want to see what is new but don
't want to have
to peruse everything in order to find out. If the
"view"
is set to song, then you
will see a listing of all the most recently played songs. This comes in handy when
you hear a song that you like (that maybe someone else played or was played at random),
but didn
't know which CD the song was from or what the song name was.
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The
Style screen comes in very handy when you want to jump around from one
style of music to the next... When perusing a particular style of music, you
see 2 CD panels at a time. What
"style"
a CD belongs to is up to you and is
determined by where you place the actual music files on disk, not by ID3 tags.
If you are viewing CD titles and you have the entire Billy Joel collection and
you want to skip to the next set of CDs where the artist name starts with a
"C"
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then all you have to do is click on the
"next letter"
button... With these two
features, you are able to browse to any CD that you want with just a handful of
clicks, even if there are thousands of CDs in the system!
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Non-commercial Version
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The
Admin screen shows the contents of the song queue, in other words,
the list of songs that are
going
to be played, as well as many buttons
for pausing the currently playing song, rejecting the currently playing song, playing the selected
queued song, removing selected queued songs, moving selected queued songs up/down in the
queue, loading songs from a playlist into the queue and saving the queue as a
playlist.
In addition, the configuration tabs for the jukebox are on the Admin screen.
You can adjust the random play features, such as how many random songs to have
in the queue at all times, whether or not to play songs randomly from a particular
style of music or whether or not to play
entire
CDs randomly.
You can also decide whether or not to allow songs with explicit lyrics to be played, whether or not to operate the
jukebox in
"kiosk"
mode, whether or not to use a screen saver, whether or not to
use confirmation dialogs.
You can adjust the volume of the song player, decide which song player to use, either
Winamp, Windows Media Player, Quicktime Player or native Java (with Java Media Framework).
This allows you to play protected song formats as WMA and iTunes AAC. In the future,
Real Player format will be supported as well.
Lastly, there are buttons for modifying the contents of the jukebox library itself.
You can rescan your hard drive for new songs, reset the random play and user-selected
song usage statistics, edit the metadata for a CD (such as publisher, copyright info and
whether or not the CD contains explicit lyrics). You can also view screens to show
you any duplicate songs that are in the jukebox, as well as screens to show you
the least popular songs and CDs. You can choose to either delete CD contents or
ignore them. For example, if you are a commercial customer, you may wish to
ignore Christmas Music related CDs when it isn
't the holiday season.
The admin screen is easily accessible from the Main screen when in non-commercial
mode (by clicking on the
"Admin"
button), otherwise when in a bar/pool hall/etc., this screen is password protected.
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