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3. Features

3.1 Settings

In this version you can setup only the player and the way how to handle files.

3.1.1 File

This tabfolder is divided into two parts. The first one describes the way the free file format looks like. You can specify the order of the tags and layer options. Not all options are necessary. Only the filename is really important. Without a filename the KJukeBox doesn´t know how to handle the song.

The second part is a very nice feature. In the KJukeBox you can specify some additional informations which are not part of the MP3 file standard. These options are saved in the JBD file format but not in the MP3 file. With this feature you can use the comment field of the MP3 file to save the settings there. But be careful, your original comments are completely lost.

3.1.2 Player

The player tabfolder is divided in three parts. In the first one you can tell the player how to fade in, fade out or mix songs. The first switch enables or disables the mixing feature. Set it to "on" and the second player fades in while the first one is playing.
The second switch always enables the default time and overwrite the times of the songs. In the next field you can enter the time after how many seconds the player starts playing. Last seconds described, when the next song schon play, 10 seconds mean the complete song time sub 10 seconds.

The seconds section sets the audio device. If your audio device ist not /dev/dsp you can change it here.

In the last section you can set the UNIX priority for the player threads. Under Linux 20 means low priority and -20 highest priority.

3.2 Song Info

You get a song information window if you double click on a song in the database or playlist. If you display a song in the database you have the additional possibility to set the first and last seconds of this song. If you have enabled the settings to use the comment field of the MP3 file it will be directly saved there.

3.3 Sound Toolbar

The sound toolbar is a control bar for the player. There are two toolbar because you have two players. The buttons mean the same as on your cd player or other players. With a click on the timer you can change between played time and remaining time.

3.4 Menu Toolbar

The first three buttons mean the same as in other programs: new, open, save. The next buttons are special buttons for KJukeBox:
Copy Selected Copy the selected songs into the playlist.
Copy All Copy all songs of this genre into the playlist.
Remove Remove the selected song.
Remove played songs Remove all played songs in the playlist.
Shuffle Playing Toggle between "play the next song" and "play a random song".

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