New Features

Some new features of the Jukes...

  • Cross platform - works on Linux, Solaris, MacOSX, Windows.
  • Full support of ID3 v2.4 MP3 tags.
  • Full support of MP3, OGG Vorbis, FLAC, Monkey Audio APE, and SPEEX
  • Automatic creation of database if not found. No more proprietary use of MS Access.
  • Ability to display/sort your discs and tracks anyway you want. Lets you order discs by year, bitrate, name etc. Tracks by track number, or bitrate, or alphabetically.
  • Highlights any disc or tracks added within the last XX days. This allows new editions to stand out in large collections.
  • Filter by Genre, Years, Bitrates and most recently added albums
  • Disc Cleaner to remove discs that no longer exist in storage from the database. Useful for people that use IPods or Archos Jukeboxes as their storage.
  • Inline editing of artists, discs, tracks rather than the old click to open a new window metaphor.
  • Ability to import and export preferences.
  • File renaming based on a user defined regular expression. So you can name your files 01-Track1.mp3 or 01 - Track1 - 128kbps.mp3 or Track1 - 01.mp3
  • Web Search to retrieve disc cover, year, track names, and artist and disc name using Amazon.com Web Service.
  • Advanced search to find tracks. Fuzzy text search as well as by year, genre, bitrate.
  • Ability to export search results as CSV files for ad-hoc reporting.
  • Tray icon for easy access, single click pause/play, mouse wheel click to advance next song.
  • WINDOWS ONLY: Ability to listen to Intellitype commands Pause Play Stop found on newer keyboards.
  • WINDOWS ONLY: Window+J key combination shows/hides the Jukes no matter where you are in Windows using global Hotkey
  • History is kept for a session so all songs played during a session can be saved as a playlist.
  • Correct title casing. Old Jukes: Can'T Get To 5Th Street. New Jukes: Can't Get To 5th Street
  • Playlists can be saved as Winamp .m3u files.
  • Playlists can be saved as XSPF playlist as described here: xspf.org
  • When more than one image is found per album the largest image is selected.
  • Forced artist/album directory structure no longer applies. Jukes recursively looks below all subdirectories looking for folders than contain music files.
  • When searching in the treeview the search no wraps unlike the old Jukes.
  • Any album image can be clicked on to take you to the album. Mousewheel click on album cover queues that album.
  • Album cover displays can be sized according to your taste or monitor size.
  • Database backup tool for compacting and zipping up your database.
  • Global Location Change tool for updating your database if you move your collection from c:\music to d:\music or anywhere else.