JukeFly Blog

We just updated the JukeFly Personal Music Server to build 1028.  We had a bug with the equalizer code that causes the JPMS to crash.  This has been fixed, so please use the 10-band equalizer if you like to use an EQ.   Remember, this only equalizes audio coming from the JPMS (pc server for personal music) and not YouTube videos.   Enjoy

We are pleased to announce the release of JukeFly 2.0. It has been a hectic few months, redesigning the entire site. Over the past year we learned a lot about the online music space and how people like to access music online.

JukeFly 1.0 was totally geared towards only listening to your personal music collection. Even though we thought this was an awesome application, it had many limitations. First and foremost your PC at home (your music server) had to be running and online at all times. Also, listening to friends’ music was limited by their upload bandwidth. This was OK for people with lots of music and only wanted to listen to their own music.

One of the cool things with JukeFly 1.0 was the ability to watch music videos from YouTube. You could do this even when your music server was not online. Extending this idea, we decided to redesign the site based on online sources of music – YouTube right now – but hopefully more sources in the future. Also, we wanted to have the newest music easily accessible. We did this by gathering the latest charts and albums from a host of online resources and presenting them in a way that makes it easy to save any of the albums or singles in your playlists. The whole UI has been overhauled and feels a lot better than 1.0 (I personally miss the dark theme – but Jeff has promised to put it back soon ☺). Also, the UI colors are now customizable – so all you guys who wanted a pink background can go crazy now ☺.

JukeFly 2.0 features:

• Listen to/watch a wide variety of online music without even having to download the JukeFly Music Server.
• Stream your own music using the lightweight and efficient JukeFly Personal Music Server app. Once you have synced your songs, you can switch between streaming your songs and watching the video version by toggling the ‘Video Mode’ button. If your music server is not online it transparently starts streaming the video versions of your songs – that way you can always access your music.
• Easily drag any song/album to a playlist. If you don’t have a certain song/album, the player will automatically search for the video versions and play those.
• Listen to video versions of all your friends’/community users’ music/playlists. If you find some music you like you can easily save it as your own playlist.
• Friends’ playlists appear under your own playlists and are easily accessible now.
• Music search– You can now search for any artist, album or song and use the results to either get more information about the artist, browse the albums by that artist, save the music in your playlist or browse similar artists.
• MusicNote– This feature makes sharing your music a breeze. If you find a song you like anywhere – be it in an album, somebody’s music collection or playlist – with just one click you can email a link to that song to a friend or family. When the MusicNote recipient clicks on the song link – he/she is on JukeFly listening to the same song and reading your message.
• TuneTweet– For all you Twitterers out there, this feature allows you to Tweet about any song. Just like the MusicNote, the Tweet will include a link to the song.
• Invites and MusicNotes allow you to import contacts from your email. We use OpenInviter – so almost all email providers are supported.
• Equalizer– There is a 10-band equalizer with a bunch of presets and the ability for saving custom settings. This will only work when streaming your music collection using the JukeFly Personal Music Server.
• The UI colors are customizable. Only the bright theme has been enabled for now, but we have the dark theme almost ready.
• Music store- we have partnered with Amazon to bring you the cheapest music available online. So please use the buy links if you really gotta have that mp3 and support us !

These are all the major things that have kept us so busy and we think all the hard work has paid off and JukeFly is an app that will appeal to all music lovers. We are already busy working on the next set of features like iPhone app, chat, concert information etc.etc. Let us know what you think and if you have any questions or suggestions.