WinJukebox 2.21

Sometimes I wonder if our technological progress is really a progress and not a regress. Back in the 50s, you walked into a bar, put a coin into the jukebox, pressed a button with your favorite song number and the music started. Piece of cake! In the 80s, everyone owned a cassette tape recorder. You walked to the shelf with your tapes, took a cassette with your favorite album or with an album that your guests would like to listen to, put it into your recorder and pushed the Play button.

Simple! Nowadays, everything is computerized. Vinyl records, tapes, cassettes, and even audio CDs have vanished. MP3 files are everywhere. You download MP3 files to your computer, you download MP3 files to your flash player, you listen to MP3 files on your mobile handset. The modern computer is a powerful media-center equipped with a 6 channel audio adapter. There are a lot of feature-rich software audio players available. And now what? After downing some beers you come to your computer and start thoughtfully clicking with your mouse searching for the music you want.

Or one of your guests tries to start some music on your computer and makes a mess of your computer. This is NOT progress! What I want is something as simple as a good ol music machine...and something that wont let your guests mess with your files. Ive tried many software products that have the word Jukebox in their name, but it appears that most of them just use this word as a synonym for a media player. Finally, though, Ive ended up with WinJukeBox.

This software feels like a real jukebox and works like a real jukebox too. WinJukeBox can operate in a full-screen mode and thus, prevent your guests from playing with your computers desktop. The program utilizes the old proven scheme, tested by numerous parties. It prints out a list of artists, albums and songs available and lets your guests simply input numbers. A printed menu with numbers works well in any environment and any circumstances.

Here are some key features:

>Creating, editing and printing. >Exporting to several popular document formats. >Checking for duplicates while adding files. >Checking for the empty Artist and Title tags. >Automatically normalizing the volume level while adding a file. >Automatically updating the music menu via the local area network or the Internet according to the schedule. >Setting a traffic limit for updating the music menu. >Supporting the most popular audio formats: mp3, wma, ogg and wav. >Limiting the repetition of tracks during playback. >Overlapping tracks while switching from one track to another during playback. >Playing music from predefined playlists if the playlist specified by your guests is empty. >Using several playlists during automatic playback: music menu, playlists, new list or top list. >Random tracks during automatic playback. >Starting playing automatically after WinJukebox is started. >Displaying Jukebox automatically in the full-screen mode. >Limiting the number of tracks in the playlist of queued tracks. >The editor of the Jukebox messages, you can replace the standard messages with your own. >Starting WinJukebox automatically at Windows startups.

Platforms: Windows 98 , Windows Millennium , Windows2000 , Windows XP

System requirements: Not specified

Supported Languages: English, German, Russian