To make the computer a real JukeBox capable of playing your favorite music in a new way, with a dynamic interface like that of an advanced stereo that is easy and immediate to use, then you need another program that is not the usual Windows Media Player.
Jajuk JukeBox is a free and open source program available in two different versions, one online as a web application that works on any computer and one as a program to download and install for Windows, Linux and Mac computers.
Jajuk is founded on MPlayer and specialized for listening to music on PC, a job that does very well especially in the selection and organization of songs and information.
Jajuk is feature-rich, an aesthetically elegant jukebox that offers a huge set of features to organize your music collection scattered on your computer.
It provides a great deal of new tools to create, edit and organize playlists, to manage album covers, to optimize the quality of music, to filter files by album, by artist, by genre and to view complete information on authors and singers, including the lyrics of the songs.
In addition to a music management tool, Jajuk is, first of all, a program to listen to music on the computer, a minimalist player with basic playback options and then many additional functions to evaluate songs, organize favorites, classify files music in groups and search for new music from the genre or as an artist.
Jajuk Jukebox can be downloaded for free and during installation, asks to indicate the folder where the mp3 files are located on the computer and scans them automatically adding them to its database.
The main interface of Jajuk is simple and not beautiful to look at but extremely rich in functions and options that make it one of the most complete PC players .
The buttons on the left are almost all different views for interacting with music: playlists, albums, information, displays.
Playlists can be created by dragging the files from the right to the bottom column and then saved as an m3u file
You can " see " the music on your computer by browsing through the various files on your computer or by scrolling through the titles, albums, singers and genres.
The best view and the one that will surely please everyone, is the Display with the big and animated title of the music playing, the album cover and the lyrics of the song .
Jajuk in fact uses the internet connection to download album covers and even lyrics for every song he plays.
The player controls are at the bottom and never disappear so you can turn the volume up or down, hear or stop the music or change tracks at any time.
There are also some buttons at the bottom that allow the automatic selection of songs from your mp3 collection to hear, for example, the newest, favorite songs or random playback.
There is also a karaoke mode (in which the voice is lowered and hidden making only the instrumental part heard) and an Intro mode that plays only the first seconds of each song.
Pressing the DJ button, you are asked to specify a musical genre and the jukebox will start playing the songs that correspond to that genre, automatically selected and mixed in order to create a continuity, without abrupt interruptions, respecting the rhythm time.
A very useful function is to find duplicate files and delete them so as to save space and make sure that you don't hear the same song 100 times on the playlist.
Information such as Genre, artist, album title, etc., are the tags of the mp3 file that can be edited by pressing the right mouse button on the song and choosing the properties.
In another post I have indicated the best programs to automatically tag mp3s and download album covers.
There are a lot of other small features around the GUI that are just asking to be tried.
Finally, do not neglect the integration with Wikipedia and Last.fm even if, in this, MusicBee is more powerful, capable of replicating the Genius function of iTunes and finding music on LastFM also to download for free .
Jajuk JukeBox is a free and open source program available in two different versions, one online as a web application that works on any computer and one as a program to download and install for Windows, Linux and Mac computers. Jajuk is founded on MPlayer and specialized for listening to music on PC, a job that does very well especially in the selection and organization of songs and information.
Jajuk is feature-rich, an aesthetically elegant jukebox that offers a huge set of features to organize your music collection scattered on your computer.
It provides a great deal of new tools to create, edit and organize playlists, to manage album covers, to optimize the quality of music, to filter files by album, by artist, by genre and to view complete information on authors and singers, including the lyrics of the songs.
In addition to a music management tool, Jajuk is, first of all, a program to listen to music on the computer, a minimalist player with basic playback options and then many additional functions to evaluate songs, organize favorites, classify files music in groups and search for new music from the genre or as an artist.
Jajuk Jukebox can be downloaded for free and during installation, asks to indicate the folder where the mp3 files are located on the computer and scans them automatically adding them to its database.
The main interface of Jajuk is simple and not beautiful to look at but extremely rich in functions and options that make it one of the most complete PC players .
The buttons on the left are almost all different views for interacting with music: playlists, albums, information, displays.
Playlists can be created by dragging the files from the right to the bottom column and then saved as an m3u file
You can " see " the music on your computer by browsing through the various files on your computer or by scrolling through the titles, albums, singers and genres.
The best view and the one that will surely please everyone, is the Display with the big and animated title of the music playing, the album cover and the lyrics of the song .
Jajuk in fact uses the internet connection to download album covers and even lyrics for every song he plays.
The player controls are at the bottom and never disappear so you can turn the volume up or down, hear or stop the music or change tracks at any time.
There are also some buttons at the bottom that allow the automatic selection of songs from your mp3 collection to hear, for example, the newest, favorite songs or random playback.
There is also a karaoke mode (in which the voice is lowered and hidden making only the instrumental part heard) and an Intro mode that plays only the first seconds of each song.
Pressing the DJ button, you are asked to specify a musical genre and the jukebox will start playing the songs that correspond to that genre, automatically selected and mixed in order to create a continuity, without abrupt interruptions, respecting the rhythm time.
A very useful function is to find duplicate files and delete them so as to save space and make sure that you don't hear the same song 100 times on the playlist.
Information such as Genre, artist, album title, etc., are the tags of the mp3 file that can be edited by pressing the right mouse button on the song and choosing the properties.
In another post I have indicated the best programs to automatically tag mp3s and download album covers.
There are a lot of other small features around the GUI that are just asking to be tried.
Finally, do not neglect the integration with Wikipedia and Last.fm even if, in this, MusicBee is more powerful, capable of replicating the Genius function of iTunes and finding music on LastFM also to download for free .
