Jukebox/XP project

[marton0151]

Hi, I'm new here, my first post in fact.  I'm looking for something new in the sense that I'd like a graphically excellent jukebox and to have a touchscreen to show it off.  I have been using Silverjuke for some time, but alas, I think it's done all it can do.  My problem is my lack of awareness of XP, and this seems to be the favoured OS with which to portray ETouch.

I have an old, 6-7 year old Sony laptop that happily runs Windows XP, or at least it did. that's doing nothing these days so it could be put to good use to serve this project.  What I want is to know whether XP can do two things.  Firstly, are there any drivers available to run a new touch screen monitor, and secondly, would there be any issues in streaming from the old Sony laptop with blue-tooth.  Although I have a jukebox player on my PC, at the moment I use my iPad 2 to send music to a Sony soundbar and the output to that is very good, but I want the novelty of having a touch screen, on the wall, but with the sound sent to the soundbar.

The aesthetics of ETouch are quite superb and if it operates as good as it looks, then that'll do for me.  I haven't even tried the software yet, I'm just going off screenshots, and the odd bit on Utube.  I thought maybe some members had similar set ups on their PC's, any thought or comments, I'd be grateful.

[Barcrest]

Sending sound out to the sound bar looks like the sound bar handles the playing, so sending the music from E-touch probably wouldn't be an option. I am not 100% sure as I have never really played around with audio over bluetooth. I just googled up what you had and got the impression that it plays files of your computer/tablet/mp3 player itself. Rather than playing what you have playing on the device.

You can get the jukebox running on windows 7 with a few simple tweaks that are more than covered on this forum should the touchscreen you purchase not have XP drivers. The best way to go depending on your finances is an all in one touchscreen pc. Wall mounting that means less wires, you'll have a bigger touchscreen and a faster machine as these tend to be newer.

[marton0151]

If it's possible to use on Windows 7, then that's good news.  Insofar as the soundbar, as far as I see it, it's really no more than a set of speakers really, isn't it?  The iPad actually plays the MP3 files, the output then simply ported over through bluetooth, and the soundbar just acts as a medium to play the stuff, least, I think so.  My thoughts were just to get a jukebox p[laying in a games room without too much cost.  The laptop can, as I say, operate XP easily enough obviously, and I have an arcade cabinet which is a few years old, and though I haven't used it, that has an option I'm sure to make the screen touch screen, and that's done through some sort of printer port on the PC.

Anyway, thanks for the response, I'll look around the forum again regarding the W7 tweaks.  I know I can simply mount the iPad on the wall and continue with that as an mp3 player, but I really like the look of the etouch software.

[Barcrest]

The sound bar may work as you describe, the only way to find out is to try it. I have never used bluetooth speakers so i couldn't say for sure but from what you say then it should work fine.