The JukeBox'er is basically an advanced MP3 player which is able to present your music for the users in an easy way.

Most MP3 files include ID3 tags describing the artist, album, tracks, genre, year... etc. The JukeBox'er uses these tags to create a categorized overview of your music.

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If some of your files haven't got ID3 tags, the application uses the directory structure to create the categorized overview. You can turn off the use of ID3 tags completely, so the overview is based entirely on the directory structure.

Below is shown a few examples on how your directory structure could look like, if you don’t want to use ID3 tags.

                          OR                                  OR

Music-root                        Music-root                       Music-root

     Artist 1                              A                                       1970's

          Album 1                             Aha                                  Abba

               Song1.mp3                      Song1.mp3                       Songs.mp3

               ...                                       ...                                       ...

          Album 2                            Abba                            1980's

               Song1.mp3                      Song1.mp3                  Bryan Adams

               ...                                       ...                                      Song1.mp3

          ...                                       ...                                            ...

     Artist 2                              B                                            ...

          Album 1                            Bryan Adams              ...

               Song1.mp3                       Song1.mp3

               ...                                        ...

     ...                                            ...

You can also place a cover image ( must be in jpg format) inside each album with the same name as the album itself. This will make The JukeBox'er show the cover, when a guest selects the album. The cover will also be show when a song from the album is played. Note, you need to turn on this feature in the settings dialog.

Video files (avi, mpg and mpeg) can also be placed inside an album. For more information see the video section.

Playlists

At the moment, it's a bit tricky to create a playlist. Please follow the steps below to create a playlist.

Open the settings dialog by pressing Ctrl+S on the main screen.

Set the ”Number of songs in queue“ to 0 ( = unlimited ), and close the dialog again.

Select a song to play which should NOT be included in the playlist.

Pause the playing song (Use the main menu or from the right-click menu).

Select the songs you want in the playlist.

When done, go into the settings dialog again and select ‘Save playlist’.

When you want to play you playlist, go into settings dialog or use the right-click menu to select ‘Load playlist’. That's it!