DWJukebox

Skin: SBM100

Chris La Mantia — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:50:54 +0000

This classic skin is based off of the design of the Seeburg M-100 C; it includes a full set of touchscreen buttons. It requires the Hound Dog Sound Pack. You can see this excellent skin in action on a beautiful handmade jukebox cabinet in the forum.

Skin: WoodCab Box

Chris La Mantia — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:47:31 +0000

This skin, originally based on Eric Bateman’s Neon Box layout, was modified by Bob of Pinball Nirvana. It has some additional buttons added, including an on-screen Exit button which is a rarity among DWJukebox skins.

Skin: Neon Box

Chris La Mantia — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:26:35 +0000

With 64 selections available at once, this high-density skin really works best at resolutions of 1024×768 and above, so my standard 800×600 screenshot really doesn’t do it justice.

Skin: Metal Box

Chris La Mantia — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:17:02 +0000

A lost entry in Eric Bateman’s “Box” series. I had attempted to upload this ages ago but the original file was corrupted. I’ve located a good copy of it, so here it is, only a few years late! The almost post-modern monochrome design really allows the album covers to “pop”.

Skin: Astral

Chris La Mantia — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:54:07 +0000

Another skin I have been sitting on for far too long. LHUPA designed this skin to use Futura Bold as the font, but unfortunately I do not have a redistributable version of that font. If you have Futura I strongly recommend editing the Fonts section of the skin to use the designer’s planned font. Astral’s background is a PNG file so it requires at least version 3.41 of DWJukebox.

Skin: LHUPATECH Schenectady

Chris La Mantia — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:23:27 +0000

I’ve been sitting on this beautiful skin for some time now. LHUPATECH specializes in high-resolution backgrounds with textures that really require a lossless presentation, and when this skin was first submitted to me it weighed in at 20 megabytes. With DWJ 3.41′s ability to use PNG files I can finally present this skin to you.

This is actually a set of eight skins: four different lighting/color schemes, each with an English and French version. They use some common image and sound files. Add all four for your preferred language to you jukebox.ini and use the BTN_SKIN_PREV and BTN_SKIN_NEXT buttons to switch between them on the fly!

How do I create a skin?

Chris La Mantia — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:32:14 +0000

Ever wonder how the skins in the Skin Gallery get created? Unfortunately, there is no “skin designer” tool, as I have put all my programming time into the jukebox itself, but that doesn’t mean creating a skin is difficult! I’ve posted a complete Skin Creation Tutorial in the Support Forum that describes the process from start to finish.

Skin: LCARS

Chris La Mantia — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:09:05 +0000

An unusual departure, this skin replicates the LCARS interface used on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Designed by Ben Johnson, I have taken the liberty of modifying the skin to add indicators for modes such as Radio, Loop, etc., plus used the new User Timers function to implement some “blinkies”. This skin requires version 3.4.1 or higher. NOTE: This skin uses graphics, sounds and a font from the LCARS Standards Development Board.

Skin: Wurly Numeric

Chris La Mantia — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:21:59 +0000

This is a modification of Hound Dog’s wonderful Wurly skin, set up to use numeric input rather than alphanumeric. This makes it ideal for use with a media center PC attached to a 1080p HDTV (use aspect ratio 16:10 for best results) and controlled via a remote control. This wide-screen skin based on a Wurlitzer Classic 2100 jukebox. This skin requires sounds from the Hound Dog Sound Pack. Note that the filenames in this skin are not 8.3-safe and will need to be modified for DOS users.

DWJukebox 3.4 Released

Chris La Mantia — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:04:29 +0000

DWJukebox 3.4 has been released. This version includes discrete command buttons (On/Off commands as opposed to simple toggles) for most toggleable features for ease of use with remote controls. In addition, a new User Timers feature has been added for skins; look for upcoming blog articles to describe how this new feature works. In addition, new page change animations are available, and animation in general has been improved and is less likely to cause song stutters. Finally, PNG is now supported in both skins and the Slide Show screensaver.

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.