Audiosoft
|
|
posted on 10-18-2006 at 08:31 AM
|
|
|
eJukebox v4.1 Released
Here is eJukebox v4.1!
eJukebox v4.1 is now available for download HERE
Give it a try and let me know what you think.
v4.1 Updates:
-New Song Change PopUp Notification Window. new display option to enable/disable Song Change PopUp
-Fixed AutoPlay not finding a new next song when current song's artist name contained a '
-eJukebox now supports Media Keyboard Keys for play/pause/stop/Previous/Next
-Album Carousel rotation speed now 'gradually' slows down when your mouse leaves
-New Option to "AutoStop Rotation" of carousel to make it slow to a stop when your mouse is not over the carousel. New Option Enabled by Default
-increased size/Readability of album name text on carousel
-fixed Artist List not refreshing after adding new music
-large << play >> buttons now disabled by default when they will not fit on the horizontal panel width. New option "Always Show Large
Play Buttons" to force display of large buttons above playtime when at lower resolutions.
-3 Day Trial Extension for all unregistered users who's 30 day trial has expired. This is one time trial extension so that people who expired under
v3.x can evaluate v4.1 for 3 days.
 Audiosoft |
|
|
Pirk
Posting Freak
Posts: 3976
Registered: 3-11-2003
Location: France
Member Is Offline
|
|
posted on 10-18-2006 at 07:07 PM
|
|
|
Thanks Audiosoft, now the carousel is in total control: When it doesn't spin unnecessarily it saves a lot of cpu noise!
PS: And if eJukebox could also stop my hard drive rotation humming.. that would be perfect!! 
If someone know about a diskless eJukebox, or any screen-keyboard-sound deport solution, I'm interested!
Thanks.
Pirk |
|
|
Audiosoft
|
|
posted on 10-18-2006 at 10:10 PM
|
|
|
Pirk,
BTW I made sure the carousel ALWAYS keeps rotating when the 'Show currently playing songs album when inactive" option goes into effect.
I think we talked about diskless before but here is an article about up and coming flash hard drives that will ultimately make slow, loud, spinning
hard drives obsolete: LINK
In the coming years these new flash drives will replace spinning disks and allow PCs to actually Always work fast and quietly. I too feel stuck
waiting for my spinning drive to respond allot of the time even when CPU and Memory are mostly free....like when Outlook is downloading email and the
antispam/antivirus is going.
One thing to look forward to with Vista is that it will add support for hybrid drives (large disks with a flash cache) and allow the use of USB flash
drives to improve system performance. Hopefully diskless flash hard drives will continue to drop in price per GB while their sizes increase. Currently
the only affordable FAST hard drives with large capacities are 10,000 RPM drives and RAID setups...but it will not be long before that changes.
Audiosoft |
|
|
Audiosoft
|
|
posted on 10-18-2006 at 11:33 PM
|
|
|
Can I get one more confirmation that v4.1 works ok? Before I go and update the website, official download links, new version check and get started on
the next update.
Audiosoft |
|
|
rllercstr7
Member
Posts: 377
Registered: 8-2-2004
Location: US
Member Is Offline
|
|
posted on 10-19-2006 at 05:03 AM
|
|
|
Hi Audiosoft,
Everything with the carosel that has changed seems to work fine for me. The media key support does not seem to be fully functional for me. I have a
bank of media keys on my keyboard and they currently function with eJukebox like this:
Play/Pause - doesn't alternate between play & pause just starts the currently playing song over from the begining.
Next - functions correctly
Previous - No function (also I didn't find any new hotkeys for this in the text document that outlines them all)
Stop - functions correctly
Also one bug I have noticed in the past is that when eJukbox first asks whether or not to lookup album covers; it doesn't check the box "disable
automatic Album Cover Lookups" if you decline.
|
|
|
Audiosoft
|
|
posted on 10-19-2006 at 05:33 AM
|
|
|
rllercstr7,
Autocover lookups only are done the first time songs are played that do not have cover/folder.jpg or ID3 tag images. I see your point but I don't
think clicking NO to the first time lookup should automatically make it not find a cover for the currently playing song when no cover exists yet.
Regarding the Media Keyboard Keys I will look into that. It works great here. As for not adding it to the keyboard shortcut list well the keys are
kind of self explanatory. I'll add them to the list in the next update.
Audiosoft |
|
|
rllercstr7
Member
Posts: 377
Registered: 8-2-2004
Location: US
Member Is Offline
|
|
posted on 10-19-2006 at 05:43 AM
|
|
|
Hmm, maybe its just that I don't get what that album lookup dialogue is for. Is it to tell eJukebox not to lookup images for songs that already have
them then?
I don't know if this helps at all, but I am using a Logitech keyboard. (The only reason I asked about the previous hotkey was because play already
uses ctr+P which is the obvious one) Thanks Audiosoft!
|
|
|
Audiosoft
|
|
posted on 10-19-2006 at 06:25 AM
|
|
|
The first time album lookup searches for covers for albums names in the list that do not have (ej lookup/cover/folder.jpg or ID3 tag) images. It only
looks up an image matched to the album name when there is no user image. The difference with the AutoLookups is that they occur the first time a song
that does not have art (ej lookup/cover/folder.jpg or ID3 tag) is played. These lookups are also able to lookup the 'album name' via artist and song
title when no user album name or image exists.
Audiosoft |
|
|
Fishy
Senior Member
Posts: 960
Registered: 10-19-2003
Location: Norway, Trondheim
Member Is Offline
|
|
posted on 10-19-2006 at 08:52 AM
|
|
|
rllercstr7: I also have a Logitech keyboard and have the same issues as you.
Audiosoft: I know it is close to a release, but I have a small request. Is it possible to make the "hide duplicate songs" in the songlist optional
(on by default)? Both on search and normal songlist listing. I espeically like to get multiple instances of the same tunes during search. There may
for instance be interesting to get different versions of the same songs, performed by different artists etc.
-----------
Fishy
|
|
|
Pirk
Posting Freak
Posts: 3976
Registered: 3-11-2003
Location: France
Member Is Offline
|
|
posted on 10-19-2006 at 11:46 AM
|
|
|
| Quote: | Message original : Audiosoft
BTW I made sure the carousel ALWAYS keeps rotating when the 'Show currently playing songs album when inactive" option goes into
effect. |
I've seen that too indeed.. All is perfect! 
Concerning diskless PC, I currently use a 400GB drive for my music collection plus the system. I'm not sure they will provide 400GB in flash drives
soon! This is why I look for a diskless remote solution. I've made some test with a old fanless Pentium3 500Mhz. The only noise come from the HD!
I've just run win 98 on it, and I can see winXP on it using the desktop remote connection. So the old PC displays win XP, and the sound come back to
the old PC too through the network cable. I would just need to put win98 on a IDE compact flash card, et voilà! 
The only thing is until now the remote connection doesn't works with Vista on win 98!!
Pirk |
|
|
Willum
Member
Posts: 117
Registered: 5-29-2004
Location: Amsterdam
Member Is Offline
|
|
posted on 10-19-2006 at 03:39 PM
|
|
|
| Quote: | Origineel gepost door Audiosoft
Can I get one more confirmation that v4.1 works ok? Before I go and update the website, official download links, new version check and get started on
the next update. |
No problems here... looks nice and stable.. (i'm focusing a bit more to the new winamp version)
|
|
|
Dragon_slayer
Member
Posts: 116
Registered: 10-20-2006
Member Is Offline
|
|
posted on 10-20-2006 at 03:41 PM
|
|
|
This is my first post on the Audiosoft forums, however, I been using eJukebox for the past seven months or so.
I like most of the changes made to the latest build except for one; the new option to "AutoStop Rotation" of carousel. I thought the carousel
rotating continually was a great edition, now it looks sort of out of place and useless (easily remedied via options though).
The other concern, is that I had to disable a security feature for IE7 (allow status bar update via script). Hopefully Microsoft will address this
problem before the final release of IE7 and make that security feature more flexible. 
Keep up the great work!!
|
|
|
