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Empathy Jukebox is a CD pub style touch screen ready virtual jukebox system.}
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Latest Version: 28/12/22 \u8211\'96 New default skin (wood) replaces old version. Sort by date. Many bug fixes.  }{\hich\af6\loch\cf17\fs18\b\f6\loch
Now 64 bit (2021)}{\hich\af6\loch\cf17\fs18\b\f6\loch
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Originally started more than 22 years ago as a simple media player to play albums in MP3 format, the project has been a constant side project for most of that time and has now evolved into a full touch screen capable skinable (with some effort) album centric jukebox system. I've used it to power standalone jukeboxes for some years. As the code is getting a bit dusty I've cleaned it all up a bit and you can get the source code here (Borland Delphi) or the download windows binaries here.}
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Main Features:-}
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Fullscreen touchscreen ready jukebox GUI.}{\loch
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Automatic CD extraction with  track/artwork finder.}{\loch
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Freetext searchable.}{\loch
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Alphabetical album jump.}{\loch
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Cover view album selection}{\loch
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Background music playmode.}{\loch
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Numeric keypad entry for the really old-school user.}{\loch
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3D spinning CD view.}{\loch
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Playlist organiser.}{\loch
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Random playlist.}{\loch
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Touchscreen album editor.}{\loch
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Lockable controls for public use.}{\loch
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Fullscreen artwork view.}{\loch
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Windows GUI desktop mode player.}{\loch
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Free and Open Source.}{\loch
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Taking an album centric approach to storing and accessing music, CDs are stored in MP3 format with one a folder representing a single album.}
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Each folder in the music collection is composed of the artist name followed by two underscores (__) and the title of the album. e.g. }{\hich\af5\loch\cf17\fs18\f5\loch
Jimi Hendrix Experience__Electric Ladyland}
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For optimal operation files are stored in album order, with the filenames arranged to reflect the order of the CD eg}{\hich\af5\loch\cf17\fs18\f5\loch
. track01.mp3}{\hich\af6\loch\cf17\fs18\f6\loch
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 track03.mp3 }{\hich\af6\loch\cf17\fs18\f6\loch
etc. A file }{\hich\af5\loch\cf17\fs18\f5\loch
'title.dat' }{\hich\af6\loch\cf17\fs18\f6\loch
should also be present in the folder which is a simple text file with the\~corresponding\~track names, one per line. Another file }{\hich\af5\loch\cf17\fs18\f5\loch
'title.jpg}{\hich\af6\loch\cf17\fs18\f6\loch
' contains a JPEG image of the album cover.\~}
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A full CD -> MP3 ripper is included in the interface, which will query CDDB databases for track listings and Amazon for album artwork and then extract the CD to a correctly named directory with in the proper format.}
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Although this seems a little long winded, this system facilitates storing the CDs in the correct file order along with the album artwork, thus reproducing the CD experience fairly precisely.}
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The minimum requirement for the file system is that the folders are created in the }{\hich\af5\loch\cf17\fs18\f5\loch
artistname__albumtitle}{\hich\af6\loch\cf17\fs18\f6\loch
 format. In this case the software will take track titles from the filenames in the order in which they appear in the directory.}
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If you haven't already decided that sounds far too much like hard work, you may want to download it or view some screen shots. iTunes it aint.}
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