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News / Re: Jukeboxes
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#2
Support and Bug Reports / Re: Current Beta fix list
Last post by Barcrest - November 04, 2025, 12:18:09 PMCorrect as of Beta 24.
#3
Support and Bug Reports / Re: Song list - lost the up an...
Last post by Barcrest - November 04, 2025, 12:16:41 PMYou need to use the latest BETA, Here is a list of everything changed since the version you are using.
Main App:
ADDED: 10 extra years to the year picker in charts to take us upto 2020
ADDED: Year label with up/down arrows to cover any year
ADDED: Downloads thumbnail with online search
ADDED: If track has no album art it will use a matching track.jpg for play options and now playing screen. (Used for online track downloads but will work with any video)
ADDED: Filter image now shows in filtered by if skinned
ADDED: \skins\" & skin & "\images\jumptoletterpop.bmp back drop for multi letter input on jump to letter
ADDED: Last song data is now stored in strings. (More useful behind the scenes).
Following replaceable tags are now supported in TTS
[current_title] - current track title
[current_artist] - current track artist
[current_year] - current track year
[current_genre] - current track genre
[current_album] - current track title
[previous_title] - previous track title
[previous_artist] - previous track artist
[previous_year] - previous track year
[previous_genre] - previous track genre
[previous_album] - Previous track album title
[day] - Replaces with current day of the week, for example "Monday"
[time] - replaces with "Morning "before 12, "Afternoon" before 17, "Evening" before 20 and "Nighttime" after 20
Multiple txt files supported picked at random from TTS\Newsong\ folder to add variety
ADDED: You can specify to show My E-Touch login on start up or Default behavior
ADDED: 3 Quick sign in buttons for My E-Touch, Defaults to the 1st 3 alphabetically.
ADDED: Setting to keep user signed into My E-touch, if not enabled it will sign out when switching to now playing screen
ADDED: Runs youtube-dl on start up with the -U flag to keep it upto date.
ADDED: Ability to turn off Karaoke and Video Available buttons independent of the tabs.
ADDED: Search scraping can now be configured for those having region issues with it.
ADDED: Keyboard shortcut to switch between freeplay and credits.
ADDED: User defined text displayed when locking Juke
ADDED: CAPS Lock light TOGGLED when Jukebox Locked
ADDED: CAPS Lock light TOGGLED when Jukebox Loading
CHANGED: Using the label to select year with up/down arrows, down hides if year it 1953 and up if year is current
CHANGED: Jump to letter screens now use number first then letters.
CHANGED: Tweak to how credits are received
CHANGED: Animations changed how they worked, should stop things hanging during animations such as credit additions or crossfades.
CHANGED: Swipe Animations changed how they worked, should stop things hanging during animations such as credit additions or crossfades.
CHANGED: removed some potentially redundant animation code. I have not seen any issues but it will need testing.
CHANGED: when using crossfade only load current song info into screen fading on so info fades properly
CHANGED: Now supports CHR$ up to 255 for key inputs
CHANGED: Confirmation for Album added not shows Album title not last track added when confirmation is shown on second screen.
CHANGED: Code improvement for key press (Use Turn_off_filter for album view)
CHANGED: Removed some Tooltips as they were only meant for debugging really
CHANGED: Command line switches moved to be picked up earlier in code execution.
BUG: On chart month selection you could pick future months (FIXED)
BUG: On year selection using the label and up/down arrows you could pick future years (FIXED)
BUG: Clicking the position label on historical charts caused a crash (FIXED)
BUG: There was a bug with E-Touch DJ that could cause it to lock up in certain situations (FIXED)
BUG: test.bat wouldn't launch at startup (FIXED)
BUG: Online seach could generate error getting track listing (FIXED)
BUG: Online calling of yourtube-dl could cause a crash (FIXED)
BUG: Duration wasn't obtained for video (FIXED)
BUG: Artist wasn't separated from title (FIXED)
BUG: Jump to letter doesn't work on filter page (FIXED)
BUG: All_Albums.jpg wasn't loading correctly on filter pages (FIXED)
BUG: Coming next wasn't shown on second screen (FIXED)
BUG: jump to letter wasn't working correctly on filter pages (FIXED)
BUG: Download track didn't work for the charts (FIXED)
BUG: Grabbing the chart from the web could hang (FIXED)
BUG: If selected genre filter didn't have an image the image on the album screen for filtered by was blank not the image not found image (FIXED)
BUG: \skins\" & skin & "\images\jumptoletterpop.bmp back drop for multi letter input on jump to letter only loaded with debug switch (FIXED)
BUG: When Signing into My E-Touch it would error if tried to send an invalid mail (FIXED)
BUG: Deleting or renaming TTS caused an error (FIXED)
BUG: Clicking login on My-Touch screen with no username caused a crash (FIXED)
BUG: Login to my E-Touch with new username (Unknown user) didn't prompt for pin creation. (FIXED)
BUG: Loading cover for last played song or most played song in My E-Touch caused a crash (FIXED)
BUG: If reflections were showing in COV they didn't update when paging (FIXED)
BUG: Pin entry screen wasn't loading in label details such as colour and font correctly (FIXED)
BUG: Clicking on the images or labels for quick login on My E-touch didn't work (FIXED)
BUG: If the karaoke or video tabs were turned off the Karaoke and video available buttons could still show. (FIXED)
BUG: If quick jump covers were turned off the wrong paging arrows were hidden (FIXED)
BUG: Online search was broken (FIXED)
BUG: Quick jump album covers didn't page properly. Last item was 1st item on next page (FIXED)
BUG: When showing now playing on second screen with crossfade second_media form not updating song info labels. (FIXED)
BUG: Add album to queue wouldn't add a second time even if allow duplicates was checked and limit artist wasn't checked (FIXED)
BUG: Youtube search was broken (FIXED)
BUG: Using keyboard shortcut to bring up album screen when showing filter screen crashes jukebox (FIXED)
BUG: Using keyboard shortcut to turn random play on/off caused a bug
BUG: When no song is playing second screen didn't always clear playing info (FIXED)
BUG: Random Auto DJ could try and play an empty track causing an error (FIXED)
BUG: If no media was found and random was turned on would crash on load (FIXED)
BUG: Virtual LED Position wasn't always correct (FIXED)
BUG: When locking the screen if you click event in progress it will go to now playing screen. (FIXED)
BUG: If locked when no song playing unlocking will play previous song (Can't Replicate when using cross fading)
BUG: If no databases are found it isn't reporting an error and launching config.
BUG: If skins folder didn't exist it still tried to load and failed (FIXED, Now shows message and quits)
BUG: If skin wasn't found and default wasn't found would still try and load with no skin (FIXED, Now shows message and quits)
BUG: Index out of bounds error on start up, was error trapped but an annoyance (FIXED)
BUG: Would hang is a library with entries was used for random play (FIXED)
Skin Tool:
ADDED: Ability to skin 10 extra years to the year picker in charts to take us upto 2020
ADDED: Ability to skin Year label with up/down arrows to cover any year
ADDED: Align X works for album title, artist, genre and year on album cover page
ADDED: Align Y works for album title, artist, genre and year on album cover page
ADDED: Snap To Grid works for album title, artist, genre and year on album cover page
ADDED: There is now a number range used for the ALIGN X/Y, SHIFT X,Y etc. Start point defaults to selected button
ADDED: Ability to skin the new My E-Touch Quick Login Buttons.
BUG: When editing pin buttons TOP and LEFT fields were not updated correctly (FIXED)
History Edit:
BUG: Form didn't disable when running most operations (FIXED)
BUG: Using remove buttons progress bar didn't work (FIXED)
BUG: Crashed when building most played if no history was present (FIXED)
BUG: Build most played didn't work (FIXED)
ADDED: Remove files older than x days.
ADDED: Build Hot Hits Button to make most_played.dat
ADDED: Remove if older than X Days
ADDED: Remove Most_played.dat when saving out updated history (Save history before building most_played or let E-Touch build it on launch)
Credit Module
BUG: Small bug in clearing previous credit due to typo (FIXED)
CHANGED: Sends credits to main app with some degree of validation and also removed a 100ms wait time
Default Skin:
Tweaked to hide new additions as I don't have the images
Some small image fixes and skinned the new my e-touch login screen.
Changed the pin entry screen
Main App:
ADDED: 10 extra years to the year picker in charts to take us upto 2020
ADDED: Year label with up/down arrows to cover any year
ADDED: Downloads thumbnail with online search
ADDED: If track has no album art it will use a matching track.jpg for play options and now playing screen. (Used for online track downloads but will work with any video)
ADDED: Filter image now shows in filtered by if skinned
ADDED: \skins\" & skin & "\images\jumptoletterpop.bmp back drop for multi letter input on jump to letter
ADDED: Last song data is now stored in strings. (More useful behind the scenes).
Following replaceable tags are now supported in TTS
[current_title] - current track title
[current_artist] - current track artist
[current_year] - current track year
[current_genre] - current track genre
[current_album] - current track title
[previous_title] - previous track title
[previous_artist] - previous track artist
[previous_year] - previous track year
[previous_genre] - previous track genre
[previous_album] - Previous track album title
[day] - Replaces with current day of the week, for example "Monday"
[time] - replaces with "Morning "before 12, "Afternoon" before 17, "Evening" before 20 and "Nighttime" after 20
Multiple txt files supported picked at random from TTS\Newsong\ folder to add variety
ADDED: You can specify to show My E-Touch login on start up or Default behavior
ADDED: 3 Quick sign in buttons for My E-Touch, Defaults to the 1st 3 alphabetically.
ADDED: Setting to keep user signed into My E-touch, if not enabled it will sign out when switching to now playing screen
ADDED: Runs youtube-dl on start up with the -U flag to keep it upto date.
ADDED: Ability to turn off Karaoke and Video Available buttons independent of the tabs.
ADDED: Search scraping can now be configured for those having region issues with it.
ADDED: Keyboard shortcut to switch between freeplay and credits.
ADDED: User defined text displayed when locking Juke
ADDED: CAPS Lock light TOGGLED when Jukebox Locked
ADDED: CAPS Lock light TOGGLED when Jukebox Loading
CHANGED: Using the label to select year with up/down arrows, down hides if year it 1953 and up if year is current
CHANGED: Jump to letter screens now use number first then letters.
CHANGED: Tweak to how credits are received
CHANGED: Animations changed how they worked, should stop things hanging during animations such as credit additions or crossfades.
CHANGED: Swipe Animations changed how they worked, should stop things hanging during animations such as credit additions or crossfades.
CHANGED: removed some potentially redundant animation code. I have not seen any issues but it will need testing.
CHANGED: when using crossfade only load current song info into screen fading on so info fades properly
CHANGED: Now supports CHR$ up to 255 for key inputs
CHANGED: Confirmation for Album added not shows Album title not last track added when confirmation is shown on second screen.
CHANGED: Code improvement for key press (Use Turn_off_filter for album view)
CHANGED: Removed some Tooltips as they were only meant for debugging really
CHANGED: Command line switches moved to be picked up earlier in code execution.
BUG: On chart month selection you could pick future months (FIXED)
BUG: On year selection using the label and up/down arrows you could pick future years (FIXED)
BUG: Clicking the position label on historical charts caused a crash (FIXED)
BUG: There was a bug with E-Touch DJ that could cause it to lock up in certain situations (FIXED)
BUG: test.bat wouldn't launch at startup (FIXED)
BUG: Online seach could generate error getting track listing (FIXED)
BUG: Online calling of yourtube-dl could cause a crash (FIXED)
BUG: Duration wasn't obtained for video (FIXED)
BUG: Artist wasn't separated from title (FIXED)
BUG: Jump to letter doesn't work on filter page (FIXED)
BUG: All_Albums.jpg wasn't loading correctly on filter pages (FIXED)
BUG: Coming next wasn't shown on second screen (FIXED)
BUG: jump to letter wasn't working correctly on filter pages (FIXED)
BUG: Download track didn't work for the charts (FIXED)
BUG: Grabbing the chart from the web could hang (FIXED)
BUG: If selected genre filter didn't have an image the image on the album screen for filtered by was blank not the image not found image (FIXED)
BUG: \skins\" & skin & "\images\jumptoletterpop.bmp back drop for multi letter input on jump to letter only loaded with debug switch (FIXED)
BUG: When Signing into My E-Touch it would error if tried to send an invalid mail (FIXED)
BUG: Deleting or renaming TTS caused an error (FIXED)
BUG: Clicking login on My-Touch screen with no username caused a crash (FIXED)
BUG: Login to my E-Touch with new username (Unknown user) didn't prompt for pin creation. (FIXED)
BUG: Loading cover for last played song or most played song in My E-Touch caused a crash (FIXED)
BUG: If reflections were showing in COV they didn't update when paging (FIXED)
BUG: Pin entry screen wasn't loading in label details such as colour and font correctly (FIXED)
BUG: Clicking on the images or labels for quick login on My E-touch didn't work (FIXED)
BUG: If the karaoke or video tabs were turned off the Karaoke and video available buttons could still show. (FIXED)
BUG: If quick jump covers were turned off the wrong paging arrows were hidden (FIXED)
BUG: Online search was broken (FIXED)
BUG: Quick jump album covers didn't page properly. Last item was 1st item on next page (FIXED)
BUG: When showing now playing on second screen with crossfade second_media form not updating song info labels. (FIXED)
BUG: Add album to queue wouldn't add a second time even if allow duplicates was checked and limit artist wasn't checked (FIXED)
BUG: Youtube search was broken (FIXED)
BUG: Using keyboard shortcut to bring up album screen when showing filter screen crashes jukebox (FIXED)
BUG: Using keyboard shortcut to turn random play on/off caused a bug
BUG: When no song is playing second screen didn't always clear playing info (FIXED)
BUG: Random Auto DJ could try and play an empty track causing an error (FIXED)
BUG: If no media was found and random was turned on would crash on load (FIXED)
BUG: Virtual LED Position wasn't always correct (FIXED)
BUG: When locking the screen if you click event in progress it will go to now playing screen. (FIXED)
BUG: If locked when no song playing unlocking will play previous song (Can't Replicate when using cross fading)
BUG: If no databases are found it isn't reporting an error and launching config.
BUG: If skins folder didn't exist it still tried to load and failed (FIXED, Now shows message and quits)
BUG: If skin wasn't found and default wasn't found would still try and load with no skin (FIXED, Now shows message and quits)
BUG: Index out of bounds error on start up, was error trapped but an annoyance (FIXED)
BUG: Would hang is a library with entries was used for random play (FIXED)
Skin Tool:
ADDED: Ability to skin 10 extra years to the year picker in charts to take us upto 2020
ADDED: Ability to skin Year label with up/down arrows to cover any year
ADDED: Align X works for album title, artist, genre and year on album cover page
ADDED: Align Y works for album title, artist, genre and year on album cover page
ADDED: Snap To Grid works for album title, artist, genre and year on album cover page
ADDED: There is now a number range used for the ALIGN X/Y, SHIFT X,Y etc. Start point defaults to selected button
ADDED: Ability to skin the new My E-Touch Quick Login Buttons.
BUG: When editing pin buttons TOP and LEFT fields were not updated correctly (FIXED)
History Edit:
BUG: Form didn't disable when running most operations (FIXED)
BUG: Using remove buttons progress bar didn't work (FIXED)
BUG: Crashed when building most played if no history was present (FIXED)
BUG: Build most played didn't work (FIXED)
ADDED: Remove files older than x days.
ADDED: Build Hot Hits Button to make most_played.dat
ADDED: Remove if older than X Days
ADDED: Remove Most_played.dat when saving out updated history (Save history before building most_played or let E-Touch build it on launch)
Credit Module
BUG: Small bug in clearing previous credit due to typo (FIXED)
CHANGED: Sends credits to main app with some degree of validation and also removed a 100ms wait time
Default Skin:
Tweaked to hide new additions as I don't have the images
Some small image fixes and skinned the new my e-touch login screen.
Changed the pin entry screen
#4
Support and Bug Reports / Song list - lost the up and do...
Last post by Aussie-Adam - November 02, 2025, 05:15:32 AMHey Barry,
I seem to have lost the ability to press the up and down buttons when looking at an album when there are more tracks than whats shown.
Any idea what could be the cause?
(tried to upload a pic of the screen, but there was some kind of error)
Using version 10200 - One for the road
I seem to have lost the ability to press the up and down buttons when looking at an album when there are more tracks than whats shown.
Any idea what could be the cause?
(tried to upload a pic of the screen, but there was some kind of error)
Using version 10200 - One for the road
#5
General Discussion / Re: Video covers not showing
Last post by Barcrest - October 02, 2025, 12:07:38 PMWhat option do you have set? Are the covers named the same like cover.jpg or are you using first cover found? As I have not seen this reported before I suspect it might be something with how you have them set up. What do you have as default library? Also what .COV file do you have set for those libraies? Check they are using the same one as the audio and resave the settings after picking from the drop down and reload.
#6
General Discussion / Re: Video covers not showing
Last post by johnleo - September 30, 2025, 03:41:59 PMHi Barry yes its working on audio . i have the covers in the same folder yes and im also not getting any covers with karaoke.
#7
General Discussion / Re: Video covers not showing
Last post by Barcrest - September 30, 2025, 02:07:00 PMDo you have the covers in the same folder? Are you using a fixed file name such as cover.jpg and coversmall.jpg? Is it only the videos that are not showing covers, is it working on audio?
#8
General Discussion / Video covers not showing
Last post by johnleo - September 30, 2025, 02:04:47 PMHi is there anybody that could please tell me or point me in the right direction with Video & Karaoke not showing covers , i seem to be able to get the videos to play but it just says new on the selection screen till i click on it then it will display the song title but i have no cover showing on either video or karaoke files. its driving me nuts lol. ive been trying all sorts of combinations over the last few days but alas nothing has seemed to sort this problem out and im at a loss as to what to do next thus me humbly asking any of you good people for a helping hand if you would be so kind. many thanks in advance.
#9
Support and Bug Reports / Re: Freeplay Mode
Last post by Barcrest - September 30, 2025, 11:40:44 AMA Keyshortcut has been added for this in the latest beta.
#10
Support and Bug Reports / Re: Pause the jukebox
Last post by Barcrest - September 30, 2025, 11:40:07 AMCheck out the new beta. I went for the CAPS Lock option as i had already done some work on it. It was also much easier that adding some RS232 stuff. I could possibly implement the RS232 stuff but it is a lot of work and I am really only maintaining it and bug fixing right now. I can add things if they are easy enough to do but more complicated additions I am not sure. Hopefully this resolves some of the issues for you.