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JukeBox is yellowTAB's own developed audio playback application. It is still under development, so look out for updates!

Winter & Winter
I want to thank Winter & Winter GmbH for all the joy their quality recordings have given me during the time of writing these manuals, and for bringing out the best of my Zeta system.

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Jukebox supports a variety of fileformats, including wav, mp3 and ogg vorbis.

JukeBox

A major benefit of digital music is the control it gives us when it comes to managing our music. CDs and LPs can be converted to MP3.

Jukebox can play music CDs, play back MP3 files and other popular audio formats.

Audio CDs
You may, for one reason or another, not want to fill your harddisk with MP3 files, but rather play your audio CDs on the computer. When you mount the CD for the first time, the tracks on the CD will appear with the dull names: "Track 1", "Track 2" and so on. But in a few seconds Zeta's inbuilt CDDB application has connected to the Internet and compared the CD with the listings at freedb.freedb.org, a global database of music CDs and it's content. If the CDDB application finds a match among the thousands of CDs listed in the base, it will copy the album and song names into Jukebox, and the information will reappear every time you mount the audio CD in Zeta.

Available Media Sources

Queries
Jukebox has an inbuilt live query (Available Media Sources) that shows all artists from the harddisk and connected medias, and the query shows you how many songs available from the different artists.

When you click on an artist or a band in the live query window, all media files registered on this specific artist/band will be shown in the window Media files.

Show all will show the results of a query on all media files on your computer in the Media files window. Under the window you will also see how many media files that got found during the query.

Playlists
You can add a playlist from the menu Playlists -> Add playlist. A dialog box will then appear and you have to choose a name for the playlist and then press Save.

The playlist will then appear on the bottom of the window Available Media Sources, under the category Playlists. For now it's empty, but by clicking on the specific playlist, you can add songs by drag and dropping them in the Media files window.

Live playlists
Live playlists are making use of queries. These are lists that are constantly rebuilt accordning to prespecified criterias.

To make a live playlist, choose Playlists -> Add live playlist. In the first dialog box that appears, choose a name for the live playlist and press Save. A new dialog box will then appear, where you can add the criteria for the playlist.

When you close the last dialog box, Jukebox is ready to play your live playlist.

Search
You can do search for a specific song, and the search will be done through all mounted medias.

Media files
Media files shows you the available songs from the chosen live query in Available Media Sources, in this case ABBA. It will also show you how many media files the query resulted in.

Play Control
The Play Control lets you move between songs (forward and rewind), play / pause, adjust the output volume, and set repeat options. Clicking directly on the volume bar, moves the volume adjustment immediately to the chosen level.

The Play Control also displays information about the current playing song, as the name of the song, how far the playback of the current song has progressed and shows you a picture of the album (if a picture is available). Dragging the progress bar moves the playback back or forward in the audio track.

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