Archive for October, 2009

JukeFly new release

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

It has been a very busy couple of months and we finally have a revamped UI with a brand new logo (Juke - the Fly:)) and a cool landing page. One of the major new features is the easy access of historical Billboard charts allowing you to browse song and album charts from as far back as 1955. I can finally get all the music from the 80s :).

The video/lyrics/artist-info integration is much better with the always-visible panel with a much bigger video player. Video playback in fullscreen mode is also supported. After lot of deliberation we decided that the best location for the player controls is at the bottom - so that the top panel can be used for navigation. The left-tree control that was previously used for navigation was cumbersome especially when you had many playlists.

We decided to simplify the skinning by allowing just a “Bright” or “Dark” option with a couple of options for the top background. We might add additional backgrounds later. As always this release has a bunch of bug fixes based on all your feedback. Please let us know if there is something we missed.

Thanks to everyone’s support and suggestions, JukeFly is maturing into a robust, slick, music app. Please keep the feedback coming!

-Dinesh