Here is the full changelist for 3.4:

• Added User Timers feature for skins.
• Added support for PNG files in skins.
• Added support for PNG and BMP files to slideshow screensaver.
• Added SlideInHorizontal, SlideOutHorizontal, SlideOverHorizontal, FlipHorizontal, RotateHorizontal, SlideVertical, SlideInVertical, SlideOutVertical, SlideOverVertical, FlipVertical, and RotateVertical animations.
• Added SlideShowMaxImageSize to [ScreenSaver] section of JUKEBOX.INI.
• Added DisplayOutputFile to [Settings] section of JUKEBOX.INI.
• Added AnimationAcceleration to [Display] section of JUKEBOX.INI.
• Added page change animations to vertical orientations.
• Added additional song polls in animation process to make song play smoother during animations.
• Added BTN_SCREENSAVER, BTN_SCREENSAVER_ON, and BTN_SCREENSAVER_OFF.
• Added BTN_PAUSE_ON and BTN_PAUSE_OFF.
• Added BTN_RADIO_ON and BTN_RADIO_OFF.
• Added BTN_LOOP_ON and BTN_LOOP_OFF.
• Added BTN_PLAYSTIMULATOR_ON and BTN_PLAYSTIMULATOR_OFF.
• Added BTN_FREEPLAY_ON and BTN_FREEPLAY_OFF.
• Added a CMD message for every BTN message.
• Added MSG_SONGSELECTED when a song is selected by any user action rather than by radio mode or the play stimulator.
• Added MSG_START_SKIN when a new skin is loaded.
• Added LimitSkipLastToMostRecent setting to the [Settings] section of JUKEBOX.INI.
• Changed MSG_START_SKIN to be the default icon action.
• Changed default animation speed from 30 to 20 (making page change animations 33% faster).
• Changed BTN_COMINGUPSCROLL to loop back to the first page after going past the last page.
• Changed condensed font to left-align rather than center if the text is too large for the titlestrip.
• Fixed animation smoothness issues for album skins.
• Fixed song skip during a screen shot.

As usual, the latest version is available at the download page.

• Added BTN_COMINGUPSCROLL to page through the Coming Up list.
• Added RunawayLimiter to [Index] section of JUKEBOX.INI
• Added ignore file support. Any folder containing a “dwj.ign” or “dwjukebox.ign” file will be ignored when searching for songs. The actual content of the file is irrelevant.
• Added messages to the log file when a folder is ignored due to being below the maximum search depth.
• Added a STRETCH option for MonitorAspectRatio.
• Added ScreenSaverRandom to [ScreenSaver] section of JUKEBOX.INI.
• Changed MonitorAspectRatio to support either true ratios (4:3, etc.) or decimal equivalents.
• Fixed a display big with single titlestrips where the Artist would appear too lo when the condensed font was used for the title.

See the download page to get the latest version.

• Changed skin change to remember the page that skin was last on.
• Fixed autoflip during screen saver.
• Fixed GUI movement on album skins.
• Fixed NEXTALPHA/PREVALPHA and alpha jumps.
• Fixed crashes related to Display5 (Album cover display).
• Fixed alpha jumps when sorting by album.

See the download page to get the latest version.

This version adds three new screensaver options including the much-requested Slideshow, a display for the album cover of the currently playing song, a transparent titlestrip option, a new skin with art by Game Creature, and more.  This version should also be more friendly to running as the Windows shell; no more having to copy jukebox files to the root.

There is also an experimental feature for LCD Smartie users; the contents of the Now Playing display are dumped to a file called display.txt in the jukebox’s program folder.  It’s not perfect, as the display will glitch briefly if LCD Smartie reads it at the same moment it’s being updated, but it will be replaced by better LCD support in the next version.

There is also a new feature that will allow the Windows screensaver to run.  This isn’t perfect as the sound is likely to glitch coming out of the screensaver, but it allows use of the excellent GEISS screensaver.

Another big change for joystick users is that moving off the side of the page causes the screen to scroll; this should make joystick navigation much easier!

Here is the full change list:

• Added slideshow screensaver.
• Added the Windows screensaver, which activates the current default Windows screensaver.
• Added ScreenSaver, SlideShowPath, and SlideShowInterval to [ScreenSaver] section of jukebox.ini.
• Added MSG_SCREENSAVER.
• Added CPUUsage setting to [Settings] section in jukebox.ini to control how much CPU priority the jukebox gets.
• Added ShowKeys to [Controls] section to show what keys are being pressed.
• Added [Display5] which displays the cover art of the song that is playing.
• Added Transparent as a color option for titlestrips, which overrides the titlestrip image file.
• Added AUTO as a setting for ColorDepth, Width, and Height in [Display] section of JUKEBOX.INI.
• Added a chdir to the executable directory to allow the jukebox to run as the Windows shell and increase compatibility with front end software.
• Added a dump of Display1 to a file called display.txt for use with LCD Smartie
• Added skin gcretro.skn.
• Added an album display to cd4-1.skn.
• Changed GUI navigation to change pages when scrolling off the screen to left or right.
• Changed focus line indent on classic-style song titlestrips.
• Changed default value for [DisplayX] Enabled to False.
• Changed default mappings in CONTROLS.INI.
• Synchronized page change button repeats with page change animation
• Fixed problems with slow and corrupted screenshots.
• Fixed song stuttering on page changes.
• Fixed page change accelleration.
• Fixed page change animation when using mouse.
• Fixed page change messages stacking up in the message queue.
• Fixed BTN_NEXTALPHA and BTN_PREVALPHA to go to the first page with a new artist letter, not the first full page.
• Fixed BTN_NEXTALPHA and BTN_PREVALPHA behavior when going through a Various Artists section.
• Optimized calls to song poll function.

• Added IconFocusBoxThickness to [Display] section of JUKEBOX.INI.
• Added TrackFocusBoxThickness to [Display] section of JUKEBOX.INI.
• Fixed a bug that prevented BTN_SKIN_NEXT and BTN_SKIN_PREV from working from a clickable icon.
• Fixed a bug decoding some Unicode strings.

As usual, you can get it from the download page.

The big new feature for Version 3.2 is the ability to switch skins on the fly.  Now you can list multiple skins in JUKEBOX.INI and use BTN_SKIN_PREV, BTN_SKIN_NEXT, or BTN_SKIN_1 through BTN_SKIN_10 to switch skins.

Another big feature for this version is direct jump to the first artist in a particular letter in the alphabet.  If a skin uses a numeric entry scheme, the alphabetic characters can be used to jump directly to that letter.

The full change list for this version is:

• Added jump to alphabet when an alphabetic button pressed for skins using numeric input.
• Added BTN_SHUFFLE.
• Added an OrphanControl setting to jukebox.ini to allow orphan control to be disabled.
• Added jbsansb.fnt and jbblack.fnt.
• Added ability to change skins on the fly.
• Added BTN_SKIN_PREV and BTN_SKIN_NEXT to step through skin list
• Added BTN_SKIN_1 through BTN_SKIN_10 for direct access to a particular skin
• Added NormallyOff and NormallyOn setting to icons to reverse their normal behavior.
• Added BTN_LOOP, MSG_LOOP, and LoopMode to support the new Loop Mode.
• Changed focus line indent and thickness on CD song titlestrips.
• Changed format of debug log to Comma-Separated Values.
• Fixed StrictAlbum comparisons which were not ignoring the word “The” and didn’t work properly against Unicode names.
• Fixed a bug that caused occasional random crashes.

You can grab Version 3.2 from the download page.

Here’s the full change log for this version:

• Added a new default cover art image.
• Added a basic internal constructed cover art image if default image is missing.
• Added a symbol for Album sort.
• Added an AUTO setting for DefaultArtCacheMB to allow different defaults in DOS and Windows.
• Added ability to map mouse buttons to controls.
• Added MSG_ALLOWSELECTFULLCD.
• Added MSG_SELECTEDALL.
• Added MSG_SELECTEDSOME.
• Added ColorDepth option to [Display] section of jukebox.ini.
• Changed default art cache to 32MB in Windows. Default for DOS is still 4MB.
• Changed random song select to only use the Random Popularity Preference setting if top quarter of songs have more than one play each.
• Changed product name to DWJukebox.
• Fixed crash of jukebox on invalid CD art images, including JPG files missing a JFIF header.

You can get the latest version at the download page.

• Added MSG_QUEUEFULL.
• Added MSG_SELECTNG.
• Added MSG_SELECTIONREADY.
• Added BTN_TOPTUNE.
• Added automatic timed page flips.
• Added settings FirstAutoFlipTimer and AutoFlipTimer to support timed page flips.
• Added CMD_NEXTPG and CMD_PREVPG to support timed page flips.
• Added SkipLetterA, SkipLetterB, SkipNumber1, SkipNumber2, etc. to [Selection] section in skins.
• Added LetterASymbol, LetterBSymbol, Number1Symbol, Number2Symbol, etc. to [Selection] section in skins.
• Added KEY_10 through KEY_25.
• Added Steelfish and Steelfish Bold fonts.
• Added larger, more detailed icons for Windows Vista.
• Increased maximum titlestrip width and height by 1000 in each direction.
• Increased maximum number of songs per titlestrip to 120.
• Fixed OGG files, which were locking up when played.
• Fixed bug where rotated icons were being smeared if there was an On image with no Off image.
• Converted documentation to HTML and Windows Help formats in addition to plain text.

An additional command button, BTN_PLAYSTIMULATOR, has also been added to toggle the play stimulator function on and off, and MSG_PLAYSTIMULATOR was added to indicate the status of the play stimulator. Cursor movements for rotated orientations now move in the proper direction; before they always moved relative to the physical screen and not the virtual one (mouse movements are still relative to the physical screen, though). Play counts no longer increment for songs selected by the radio mode or play stimulator. Finally, a new classic-style skin has been added that uses a numeric keypad rather than a letter/number input style; you can find this as numeric.skn.

Here is the full change list for this release:

• Added RadioMode option to [Settings] section of jukebox.ini.
• Added BTN_PLAYSTIMULATOR to toggle the state of the play stimulator.
• Added MSG_PLAYSTIMULATOR to indicate the status of the play stimulator.
• Added cursor movement normalization for flipped and rotated modes.
• Added orphan track control: if part of a split album has 1/4 or less of an album worth of tracks, some tracks will be moved from the previous portion to even them out.
• Added numeric.skn, a version of the default skin set up for a 10-key keypad.
• Changed play counts to not increment for songs played by radio mode or play stimulator.
• Moved message proccessing logs to debug level 3 from level 4.
• Fixed radio mode adding songs when enabled even if a song is playing.
• Fixed SHIFT, ALT, CTRL, WIN, and LOCK keys.
• Fixed arrow mouse pointer orientation for rotations 2 and 3.
• Fixed shutdown crash in screen saver cleanup.
• Fixed skin loader not reporting missing icon files.
• Fixed bug causing database to be erased on a fatal error.
• Fixed multi-part albums showing incorrect artists. Multi-part albums now look at all parts when deciding who the main artist is.
• Fixed UseTrackZero for classic-style interfaces.
• Fixed bug allowing selections from the next page to be selected if an out-of-range selection address is entered.

Changes in this release include:

• Added BTN_SKIPLAST to delete the last song in the queue. Note that you cannot skip the currently playing song this way.
• Added SkipLastTimeLimit setting to [Settings] section of jukebox.ini to control BTN_SKIPLAST.
• Added MSG_SKIPLASTOK to indicate when it’s OK to skip the last song in the queue.
• Added IncrementalCreditDelay to [Timers] section in skin; when non-zero, credits are added one at a time with the specified number of hundredths of a second between them.
• Added MSG_ADDINGCREDITS to indicate that credits are being added; this message is not sent when IncrementalCreditDelay is disabled.
• Added MQ_MSG_ADDEDCREDIT to indicate that a credit has been added. It will fire once for all credits on a coin if IncrementalCreditDelay is disabled, otherwise it will fire once as each credit is added and unset a short time later.
• Added CMD-ADDCREDIT message to tell the jukebox to add a credit. CMD_ messages do not come in pairs like BTN_ and MSG_ messages; there is no “unset” for a CMD message.
• Added a deferred credit counter; if another coin is inserted before all credits are added, the additional credits are deferred until the first credits are all loaded.
• Added case support for Title, Artist and Album font contexts.
• Fixed backward compatibility for font settings. If the Font setting in the [Titlestrips] section of a skin is present, the [Fonts] section will be ignored.
• Fixed BTN_PAUSE.
• Fixed AllowSelectFullCD=False.
• Cleaned up coin sound effect.
• Changed Unicode character sorting to use ASCII equivalents.
• Changed random song selector to not select songs that are duplicates of those in the queue if duplicates are disabled.

Please read the installation information in the announcement for version 3.1 below regarding DLL changes. I hope you enjoy this release; please feel free to send me any bug reports, feedback, or excess sums of money that you have lying around.