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#21

Public & Demo Releases / just donated.

Last post by its-smee - September 07, 2024, 03:58:58 PM

 posting on behalf of a friend
PayPal Transaction 27L9198029814554M
confirmation to Hello@boars-head.com

looking forward to his key

#22

General Discussion / jukebox key

Last post by its-smee - August 31, 2024, 10:21:16 AM

Hi Barcrest.  I am leaving this message on behalf of a friend who has recently subscribed.
he has not yet received his Key and is looking forward to setting up a new jukebox.

his PayPal Transaction receipt number is 27L9198029814554M 
confirmation to Hello@boars-head.com

He could not find where to leave a message

regards

its-smee

#23

General Discussion / Re: Bill Acceptor for Commerci...

Last post by mebronx2000 - August 20, 2024, 03:29:38 AM

Hello all,

Joe here, I'm a electronics guy by heart and fiddle around alot with making guitar effects pedals, doing up random DIY projects. I have a background with using diodes, resistors, relays, etc... So, I've looked high and low through the forums looking for a detailed howto on using a bill acceptor with Freebox and only found fragments of information pointing to using an IPAC in some way shape or form. My goal here is to utilize a bill acceptor for as cheap as possible and build a solid Bill Acceptor FAQ for the forums (Sticky, tutorial, etc...)

Here is what I know from my research so far:

- Need to by the updated license for $250 (no sweat!
- Need to by a Bill Acceptor (I'm guessing MEI or MARS) How does the Matrix unit work without an IPAC?
- Need to by an IPac or equivalent to convert the bill acceptor signal to a keystroke (I initially wondered why I can't jsut use a relay and hacked up kepyboard for this, but I'm sure there are some good reasons..)

My requirements are as follows:

- Should cost as little as possibly while providing me the functionality desired (you can easily by an overly expensive bill acceptor that has more features than needed, hence this seemly obvious requirement.)- I want to use US bills (the new ones) not coins, so don't want to discuss coins as a requirement
- Bill denominations should accept 1, 5, 10 and 20 dollar US bills.
- I want to wire up two bill validator/acceptors in one juke box (should be a matter of hooking them up in parallel I would use to one iPAC or possibly needing two IPACS) my reasoning here is that when the acceptors fill up they no longer accept bills. It's nice to have two...

My questions to the group are as follows:
- Is there a bill acceptor that works direct USB and emulates key strokes?
- What bill acceptors have people used in conjunction with an IPAC
- What are the pinouts or required connections to connect the IPAC and bill acceptor
- When using an IPAC and bill acceptor does the bill acceptor send multiple pulses to the ipac when say a $5 bill is entered opposed to a $1 bill?  Or are their different pintouts from the bill acceptor that send pulses to different pins (wires) depending on the bill type? If the latter is the case, then I'm assuming you would hook this output to a different IPAC circuit and program to IPAC to hit the "C" keyboard key 5 times for  that channel?

I think that is the majority of my questions/requirements. I'm basically looking to know the combo and configurations of what works so I can start in the right direction. I'm also committed to putting together solid documentation for the next guy who looks to do something similar.

Thanks in advance for your input and response.

Joe

did you ever get this working?

#24

Skin Support / Re: Rounded edges for covers?

Last post by Risim - July 23, 2024, 11:41:49 PM

No worries it doesn't look that bad. I'm just finishing a new skin it is almost an amazon music clone. It seems transparent pages and blurred background images matching the album covers is what they use to make it pop.

#25

E-Touch User Guides and FAQ / Re: Tagging

Last post by Flick - July 21, 2024, 08:55:46 PM

Thank you so much

#26

Skin Support / Re: Rounded edges for covers?

Last post by Barcrest - July 21, 2024, 11:05:11 AM

You could do it by modifying the cover image I guess but that will still be a square image so the background will not show through the curved corners. This wouldn't be a problem if the background is black and you made the background of the covers black. Or another way would be use the album cover frames as they are transparent but you will have that frame image over the top of the cover.

#27

Support and Bug Reports / Re: Mp3 error

Last post by Barcrest - July 21, 2024, 11:02:10 AM

I would suggest contacting who you got it from and getting them to assist.

#28

E-Touch User Guides and FAQ / Re: Tagging

Last post by Barcrest - July 21, 2024, 11:00:58 AM

The non mp3 tagger is for tagging video files. For MP3 files it reads the tag from the file. I use Tag & Rename to edit the tags on my MP3 files.

#29

General Discussion / Re: play lists

Last post by Barcrest - July 21, 2024, 10:58:34 AM

I would guess the skins you don't see the button on don't have it included and the either dragged it off screen or set it to a 1x1 pixel size.

#30

General Discussion / Re: Skin Tool issue

Last post by Barcrest - July 21, 2024, 10:56:48 AM

Use the beta version as that has all the latest fixes in. You need to run the skintool as admin like the main app and it should pick up the skins. I have not seen an issue where that doesn't show the skin list properly so i expect it is because it isn't running as admin. (Right clikc properties and set it to always run as admin there).