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posted on 6-9-2006 at 01:29 AM
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eJukebox v4.0 Alpha 6
eJukebox v4.0 Alpha 6 Updates:
-Artist List now uses cached data so that eJukebox starts up and switches skins allot faster as well as opens and closes the artist list faster.
Cached Data will always be used for when artistlist is loaded except after the Database is Rebuilt or new songs are added. The cache also does not get
used when the Show Artist with x Songs option is changed at the top of the Artist List
-Songlist Titlebar now shows title for above positioned carousel when mouse goes over it
-made song Editor show up faster and no longer lock the main eJukebox window when loading data.
-Home View and Genre/Year/Compilation Carousel now shows Top 12 instead of Top 20 albums in order to preserve 3D appearance and increase fps. Artist
Carousel listings still have a max of 20 albums
-fixed album carousel sometimes not being resized correctly when artistlist opened/closed/edv changed when viewing songlist
-fixed carousel background color specified in skin not being loaded immediately on skin change
-Can now click the progressbar on the Startup Screen to hide that window while eJukebox is starting up
-Virtual Keyboard's input now case fixed instead of all capitals
-eJukebox's Web Browser now blocks popups unless CTRL key is held down. Browser status bar now shows # of popups blocked for the page
-eJukebox default priority now High. The following option has been added to ejukebox.ini:
[Processor]
Priority=2
1 = Normal
2 = High
3 = Realtime
Alpha 5 Updates:
-carousel now has a max of 20 albums instead of 9. now shows 20 on the home view, genre, year, compilation listings
-empty space above and below albums in carousel removed
-carousel now displays albums in alphabetical order instead of popularity when artist's albums are loaded.
-low quality ej lookedup album images now cropped for carousel so that they do not have white borders
-fixed foreign characters causing carousel to stop loading more albums
-added 'Music Videos' quicklink
-fixed clicking now playing album when # in album name locking up songlist
-web browser now supports left and right page scrolling - holdmouse down over left and right margins of the webpage
Alpha 4 Updates:
-carousel now filled correctly for genre, year, search etc instead of only on artist and album listings. Shows top 9 related albums with the most song
picks
-carousel now handles compilation albums correctly
-fixed restore from fullscreen and touchscreen left/right mouse buttons being hidden under alpha 3
-made carousel |> playalbum icons disable when in kiosk mode and disable play album icons option checked in kiosk mode options
-made search box animate open and closed faster
-got rid of skip effect when mouse over letter header rows in artistlist
-fixed alpha 3 songlist flicker when clicking artist in artistlist while albumlist open
-made carousel background color skinnable. you can add the following to colors.ini to change the carousel background color
:-Album Carousel Definitions-
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[Carousel]
BgColor=#000000
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Alpha 3 Updates:
-moved the Album Carosel to above the songlist with option to show it below.
-Carosel default rotation speeds slower
-Carosel no longer reloads after clicking an album on it
-Carosel now supports dragging albums to playlist and now playing panel
Alpha 2 Updates:
-updated carosel so it spins at default speed when the mouse leaves the carosel
-made |> buttons on carosel bigger and made carosel slow rotation when mouse is over them
-carosel now uses less cpu
Alpha Updates:
-New Rotating 3D Album Carousel on the Home view and optionally under the Songlist
-added 'Remove Song' to playlist right click menu
-should fix songlist sometimes getting stuck and refusing to load
The v4.0 Home button view still needs work. Let me know if you have any suggestions.
To view the album carousel in the songlist you must keep the album list closed. If it makes you dizzy, you can always disable it under eJukebox's
display options...or just open the album list.
Let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions.
NOTE: Attachment Download has been removed. eJukebox v4.0 Beta 1 is now available under the Latest Updates section of the forum.
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posted on 6-9-2006 at 12:46 PM
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!! A Wow !!
The carrosel shows the top artist, is this correct ? or can it be changed somewhere ? (Show playlist or so)
But still... a big WOW
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posted on 6-9-2006 at 12:47 PM
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Audiosoft,
Your album carousel looks great!  And it seems to work pretty good. It is
very USEFUL as a lighten albumlist for the current artist. Excellent work!!
I just think maybe that would be better if it was not attached to the songlist end, but rather FIXED at the bottom of the right panel. So it would be
"always visible". The songlist would scroll in the space remaining on top. This is my feeling..
Thanks a lot.
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posted on 6-9-2006 at 12:59 PM
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Willum,
When you click on the now playing album, the songlist displays the current album, and the carousel is updated with the WHOLE ARTIST albums!
That is AWESOME!! 
Plus, when you let play eJukebox (don't move the mouse), it will animate automatically the current artist albums!!
That is magnificent!
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posted on 6-9-2006 at 01:08 PM
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Ok, got it.. the problem was.. once you have selected the Albums tab.. I couldn't find a way to get back (home did'tn work).
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posted on 6-9-2006 at 01:18 PM
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I think it's either the carousel, or the albumlist.. The carousel is like a mini-albumlist! A miniskirt! 
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posted on 6-9-2006 at 01:37 PM
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| Quote: | Origineel gepost door Pirk
--Knip---
Plus, when you let play eJukebox (don't move the mouse), it will animate automatically the current artist albums!!
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Pirk,
I (Left)klick the Now Playing Album.. I see the carrosel change..
I wait... wait... wait... I see (and hear :-)) the Now Playing change.. but not the carrosel...
what do i wrong ??
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posted on 6-9-2006 at 01:51 PM
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I think you need to check the option "Show currently playing song's album in songlist when inactive".
This option is in "Options/playlist" -> "Other"..
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Audiosoft
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posted on 6-10-2006 at 01:29 AM
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The albums displayed on the HOME button view are the same albums that showed up in the list before....except it displays the top 9 albums instead of
5. It shows the albums that have the most picked songs while being last played within the time period set on the last drop down box option of the Home
view.
The albums in the carousel under the songlist (when the album list is closed) are currently all the available albums from the artist that is in the
songlist.
Glad you guys like the Album Carousel. It is a lighter alternative to the album list. Hopefully not too CPU hungry. I could add an option to lower the
quality of the Album Carousel animation a little bit to make it use less cpu if it becomes a problem.
Thanks for any suggestions. I will probally be able to improve it some before v4.0 goes gold.
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posted on 6-10-2006 at 05:35 AM
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Great Audiosoft,
Can the carosel be on the top of the list ?
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 posted on 6-10-2006 at 10:22 AM
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Suggestions for the Album Carousel:
1) Slow down a bit the default rotation speed. Because currently it's a bit straining for the eyes to follow and read the album names. I think -50%
would be ideal. And maybe that would save some cpu time.
2) Put the carousel fixed and "always visible" on the bottom of the right panel. The songlist would be on top in another independent window.
3) List artist albums in the same order than in the full albumlist. Currently the artist albums seems to be mixed up, or if they are sorted, they are
in a strange order?!
4) I think the carousel should group the double and multiples albums (showing only one cover) like in the full albumlist.
5) That would be great if the carousel could display more than 9 albums. I think 20 albums would be sufficient! See my trick below.
A trick in order to display many more albums in the carousel:
The carousel would still display only 9 albums at the same time, but you could SWAP albums when they are behind. So the user could contemplate all the
artist albums (even more than 20 if they exist!), while the carousel still only displays 9 at the same time..
Thank You.
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posted on 6-10-2006 at 05:19 PM
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The caraousel is very neat and performs well at my system!
It would be nice if one could drag covers from the carousel to the Now Playing and playlist, just like one can with 'normal' albums in the
songlist. I think I also would remove the "ejukebox 4.0" text, because it makes the carousel a little cluttered. In addition, some kind of numbering
(reflecting the popularity status of the albums) in the homeview might be appropiate.
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posted on 6-12-2006 at 06:58 PM
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Carousel is a great feature, runs very well, and the version if it in the songlist view makes browsing an artists albums much easier. Good job.
If it hasn't been said enough already, that little red arrow thing to play the whole album needs to be bigger. It's very hard to grab with a mouse
while that sucker is spinning around.
I wonder if some variant of this technique could be used in the playlist area to allow album cover previews of more that just the one next song, but
instead a larger number of upcoming songs.
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posted on 6-14-2006 at 11:34 PM
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Hallo Audiosoft...
here some comments from me:
| Quote: | Originally posted by Pirk
1) Slow down a bit the default rotation speed. Because currently it's a bit straining for the eyes to follow and read the album names. I think -50%
would be ideal. And maybe that would save some cpu time.
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It also would be great if the rotation speed slows down to default the time the mouse leave the caroussel.
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5) That would be great if the carousel could display more than 9 albums. I think 20 albums would be sufficient! See my trick below.
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How about a random-mode?
Instead of displaying the Top-Albums, the carousel picks ramdomly some and spin them.
The perspective seems to be not correct: The Pictures seems to get bigger - not smaller when went to the back.
Do you use Direct-3d? The carousel seems to use to much ressources.
Greetings ans thanx for the great work. I like the alpha-version.
Frank
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posted on 6-16-2006 at 03:29 AM
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Alpha 2 Download
Alpha 2 is now available for download in the first and second posts. Both files have been updated and are required to be redownloaded and installed
for Alpha 2. Let me know what you think.
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posted on 6-16-2006 at 09:17 AM
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| Quote: | Alpha 2 Updates:
-updated carosel so it spins at default speed when the mouse leaves the carosel |
That's a good thing, but if you leave the carousel too rapidly that doesn't work.
| Quote: | | -made |> buttons on carosel bigger.. |
I like these RED buttons, they look great with my skin!
| Quote: | | ..and made carosel slow rotation when mouse is over them |
That's good.
| Quote: | | -carosel now uses less cpu |
I hope.. that would be welcome!
Otherwise I still support my 2) 3) 4) and 5) suggestions!
Thanks.
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posted on 6-16-2006 at 07:05 PM
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| Quote: | Message original : Pirk
| Quote: | Alpha 2 Updates:
-updated carosel so it spins at default speed when the mouse leaves the carosel |
That's a good thing, but if you leave the carousel too rapidly that doesn't work.
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Now I've clarified more this point:
It's only when the Artistlist is open, and if the mouse leaves the carousel over the Artistlist with a lively movement, then the carousel
doesn't spin at default speed but at Top speed!!
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posted on 6-17-2006 at 04:27 AM
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I hope that all functions in ejukebox 4 will work indepdently if you have the albumlist loaded or not. That goes for both the carousel and genre
buttons.
Further, I would just like to point out that there are enought suggestions/ideas around in this forum to make several different digital jukeboxes. But
at the same time you probably have a life beside these forums (as we all do). So Audiosoft, I just hope you manage to get as many of those
wishes/suggestions/crazy ideas as possible implemented in version 4.0 of the program. Anyways we all aknowledge ejukebox as a great program and I
think you are hiding something in this beta 
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posted on 6-21-2006 at 05:15 AM
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I think it works better with the carosel at the top or bottom instead of inside the songlist.
That way it doesn't jump around, doesn't cover the songlist background and does not scroll with the songlist. Plus it is faster since the carosel
does not need to be reloaded on the songlist when one of the albums in it is clicked.
Any objections to me switching it to work like this? I can add an option to place the carosel above or below the songlist. Also, I am thinking about
lower the maximum rotational speed and slow down the default carosel speed.
Keep in mind, there will always be an option to hide the carosel if you do not like it.
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posted on 6-21-2006 at 11:17 AM
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[Quote]Any objections to me switching it to work like this? I can add an option to place the carosel above or below the songlist.[/Quote]
If the option is there, i don't mind the default, it it's not there.. i prefere it on the top of the list.
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posted on 6-21-2006 at 11:30 AM
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| Quote: | | I
think it works better with the carosel at the top or bottom instead of inside the songlist... |
I think so.
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objections to me switching it to work like this? |
Euh.. No!
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can add an option to place the carosel above or below the songlist. |
Yes, I think that would be perfect if we can choose the position.
| Quote: | | Also, I am thinking about lower the maximum rotational speed and slow down the default carosel speed. |
I agree..
Thanks.
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posted on 6-21-2006 at 10:26 PM
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Great. It works so much better at the top. Everything just flows better and it is faster. Plus there is no flickering. I even got drag and dropping
albums out of the carosel to work. I would post alpha 3 but there are still some issues to fix up.
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posted on 6-22-2006 at 12:48 AM
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Wow Audiosoft, the new carosel feature is awsome! Like Pirk I have also seen the problem with it scrolling at an incredably fast speed when doing
certain things (once it happened when my mouse was over the taskbar). One other thing I would suggest is to adjust the homepage as the color flow is
now a little interrupted by the strip of black containing the carosel. I attached an image where I photoshoped in a blue to black gradient that I
think makes things look a little better. I attached it below
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posted on 6-22-2006 at 01:28 AM
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rllercstr7,
Glad you like it. I wish you could experience how much better it works
now...i will have alpha 3 up later this week.
Thanks for your suggestion on the color flow. The homepage look will probally get an update for 4.0. Plus I am going to make it so you can change the
carousel background color from black to a different color in the skin. I am not sure yet if I am going to use black or blue for the background on the
default skin.
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posted on 6-22-2006 at 03:33 AM
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This is just and Idea I came up with for a new layout for the home screen page. The button in the bottom right is for internet radio. My idea is to
have the top songs highlight or grow a little bigger as their respective album goes around the carosel. For example the album for the top #1 song
comes to front center first and the #1 song is highlighted and as the carosel rotates the albums of #2 #3 #4 etc their respective titles highlights
and the process continues in numeric order.
As an added bonus the voice feature could be used to say this weeks/months #1 song is bla bla bla By ACDC. Obviously it would have to say something
different before each song or it would get a little repetative (ex topping the charts at #2 this week). That may be too complex but just an idea I
thought might be cool.
This picture isn't complete and there are dialogues missing because I can't think of a good way to integrate them, but heres a photoshop pic of my
idea for the home page.
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Audiosoft
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posted on 6-22-2006 at 10:19 AM
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Check it out!
Grab the v4.0 Alpha 3 Downloads in the first and second posts and let me know what you think.
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posted on 6-22-2006 at 11:29 AM
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Wow rllercstr7!! Your Homepage is really magnificent! And the way you
plan to highlight the Top songs is very interesting too..
I think you should post your ideas more often!
Audiosoft,
Thanks for the update of the carousel: Now it is a lot more domesticable!
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posted on 6-22-2006 at 12:34 PM
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Very nice
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posted on 6-22-2006 at 04:52 PM
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I anyone wants the photoshop file to play around and edit that image to share ideas I don't mind at all. Just let me know. The picture has also been
updated.
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posted on 6-22-2006 at 08:44 PM
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I think that Fishy would need the image editor too..
And me I have the editor, but not your talent.. Bravo! I think you could win the $250 reward!
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