V4 Feature List

Freebox is Windows based Jukebox software for playing your personal music and music videos. Perfect for touch screen systems, it can very easily be operated using a mouse. Full version is $25, the demo is fully functioning but is limited to 30 minutes, you can just restart the app though right after with no nag screens to sit through.

Features include:

• Show the top 10 played songs of all time
• Browse music by artist, year and genre
• Decades Feature, Shows offical top 10 by month and year
• View a recent history of songs played
• Search by Track, Album or Artist
• Karaoke supported, MP3 + G files.
• Browse music by album covers or a text list depending on skin used
• Clicking on an album opens the track list where the user can select to add a single track ,The whole album, Add to A Playlist or Download to a folder.
• Configuration allows you to turn on or off any button on the screen. Don’t want your users to add the whole album to the queue? Just remove the button.
• Configuration also allows you to request a PIN code to access any of the main menu items. Don’t want your users to see the queue but still want the button shown? Just PIN code the button.
• Set up play lists (load and save from with in the jukebox).
• Play music videos just as you do your music. When in Video mode, you browse through the artists adding videos to the queue. These can be piped out to a second screen.
• Show a visualisation as tracks are played (WMP or Winamp required).
• Completely skinable. Included with the software is a skin tool which allows you to move and re-style buttons, backgrounds and layouts.
• Multiple monitors are supported. Run your Jukebox software on one and the visualisation on another. This could be the TV out or Monitor 2 port.
• “power off” options of shutting down the jukebox software or the PC. This can also be automated at a certain time, eg: midnight. Custom scripts can be run when the software is closed.
• Schedule skin changes using a calendar so it will change automatically for special events.
• Random Play by library (Music, Karaoke or Videos) Or by Artist, Genre and Playlists.
• Networked Jukebox Master/Terminal (Allows the use of multple jukebox terminals to add songs to current queue on master jukebox).
• Transparency (Allows backdrop (wallpaper/visualization) to show through jukebox frontend.
• All jukebox functions are mappable via keyboard shortcuts (useful when using a remote control).

Public Use features – these are features useful if you plan to use the Jukebox for commercial purposes.

• Show a “NEW” label on albums recently added
• “Attract Mode” – This can be used to change the skin on certain dates (eg: changing the skin to a Christmas one in December). Attract mode can also be set to play random songs and play visualisations to attract users.
• Create separate databases – useful if you have different types of parties where the jukebox is used (eg: Wedding, Children’s party etc).
• Freebox has a credit module which is used when a coin mechanism has been attached to the PC. You can set the properties for a “credit”. For example the cost to add a song to the queue, cost to play the song next and cost to play a song now. This is also split be media library type with different pricing for Music, Karaoke and Video.
• Freebox fully supports the Betabrite LED sign, and Also the Chinese Variant. You can configure what appears (credit information, song information, general messages etc). 2 Signs are support at the same time.

NOTE: You will require WMP 11 to be installed to use this, you can however alter the freebox.ini and change the engine to 0 if you wish to use the old V3 engine which doesn’t require WMP 11.

Version 2 is still availble for free.

$100 Shipped to the U.S. These work in freebox V3 and V4

More Info & Ordering Details

This version is availble to download now, a demo should be availble later this week.

If you have donated V3 has been updated to fix some more bugs, get it from the usual place. Also I thought it might be a good time to announce that V4 is going very well with the testers and i am hoping a release can be made before the end of the month, keep an eye on the forum for more details.

Some V4 Features

WMP Engine as Well as Direct Show used in V3
Support for multiple Decades Charts. Billboard hot 100, Aus Charts and UK Charts included
Support for filtering by Artists and years not just Genres
Support to play random tracks by selected artists or genres
Playlist functions now added, load and save them and add them to the queue or use for random play

I’m working on adding more in time for the release, i will make a full list and post next week.

Updated the jukebox again to fix some bugs, this demo is the latest V3 build and is compatible with the new Black And Blue skin released.

Updated the jukebox again to fix some bugs, i have also updated the demo you can snag it here…

Ok i have had some requests to release a demo of V3.11 which is the current stable build of V3. Here it is, it’s fully featured aside from the fact it will only run for 30 minutes but should give you enough chance to try out the features and see how it all works.

Download:
http://www.iamkizer.net/freeboxjukebox/demo/setup3011-demo.zip

The long awaited V3 is now available for purchase. Use the donate link to send the $25 payment along with your forum username to gain access to this release. V2.2 is still available for free, however V3 has a far greater feature set and has far greater stability. It is also compatible with all the skins you see on this site.

The old V2 Default Skins (CLASSIC) have been uploaded to the 800×600 page if you want to grab them as they are no longer included in the default release since V3.0 came out.

V3 is almost out of testing now with just a few things to finalise. I think we are looking at a release of around mid sept aside from any major issues. Once V3 is launched there will no longer be a donation system in place. V3 will be availble for the $25 for the standard none credit version. I feel i have to go this way due to the small amount of donations coming in. The V2.20 download will be removed and replaced with a demo version of V3 that will be fully functional but have a set time limit on it before it shuts down. These details have not quite been finalised as yet, keep checking the forum for full details.