JukeFly 2.0
July 10th, 2009 by Dinesh NairWe 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.
July 15th, 2009 at 8:33 am
When will the community forums return? I am having problems with JukeFly 2.0 that I didn’t have with the older version and am looking for a fix. Thanks.
July 15th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
craigg75 - We are changing the forums software because of problems with spam. We will have it up pretty soon. In the meantime I can help you with any issues you are having. You can leave me the details here or leave a feedback on JukeFly or contact either Jeff or me directly via email (the emails addresses are listed on the JukeFly About page)
Thanks,
Dinesh
July 16th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
The initial problem got fixed magically. Basically 8000 song playlist set at shuffle play was playing a few seconds of the next song and then going to another song to be played completely. It stopped happening.
The problem that’s always been there is that shuffle play keeps landing on the same songs, not very random. 8000 songs, a song shouldn’t be repeated for quite awhile. Its not a big deal, I can easily just hit the next button.
Great job on this software, hope you guys make some money off it
July 16th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
craig - Yeah another user complained about that issue and we had a fix deployed a couple of days ago - so no magic there :). Shuffling should be random - I’ll test it and see if there are any enhancements that can be made to the algorithm to increase the randomness.
As always, please let us know if you have any other issues/questions/suggestions.
Thanks,
Dinesh
July 23rd, 2009 at 1:47 pm
I’m having some weird problems with the “Now Playing” speaker icon not showing to the left of the currently playing song after I’ve done a search. Is this a known issue? It’ll show up when clicking on “Personal Music” for the first time after loading the page but after I do a search and then play from my results, no more icon. Tested in latest versions of Safari and Firefox. Thanks!
July 23rd, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Matt - I’ll try to reproduce the issue and have a fix for it soon. Thanks for letting us know.
-DInesh
July 23rd, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Matt - The bug you were seeing has been fixed and deployed. Please let us know if you have any other issues/questions. Again thanks for letting us know
-Dinesh
August 1st, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Works great. Thanks a lot!
August 3rd, 2009 at 8:21 pm
I’d love an iPhone app. Heck, I would even pay for it!
I do wish one could do music collection management via JukeFly too. I know there are other apps out there to do this, but maybe just basic stuff like deleting dupes or songs you don’t want anymore.
August 4th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Dave - The iPhone app is undergoing testing right now. Should be released very soon - if Apple does not have any issues with a streaming music app
We are always working on improving the UI for better usability and most requested features. Library management is a priority and what you requested has come up often - we will definitely look into adding more controls for managing your music.
Thanks for your feedback and please let us know if you have any other suggestions
-Dinesh
August 6th, 2009 at 5:28 am
Since the forums are still not up I’ll bring my question here.
It appears the playlist import button no longer works. Is that a known bug?
Thanks,
Craig
August 6th, 2009 at 6:45 am
Answer to my question above is this function doesn’t work with the latest version of Firefox. You must use Internet Explorer.
Craig
August 6th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Craig - I’ll test it and get back to you. Also, you can always leave comments using the Feedback section on JukeFly. We constantly monitor it.
Thanks,
Dinesh
August 9th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
I see I can listen to songs/albums without uploading them. Is this potentially a legal issue? Am I basically watching a youtube video of the song- and is this a copyright violation in some way? Am I actively seeding/uploading as I listen?
I just want to make sure listening to songs is not some sort of prosecutable offense.
You seem to have a great site/product. Just want to make sure its OK for me to use all of its features.
August 9th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Is there a way to add a youtube channel to our playlist?
For example, I like the classical music at ClassicsHouse (http://www.youtube.com/user/ClassicsHouse) is there a way to add that as a playlist and the shuffle it?
August 12th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
questioner -
(when you are not streaming your own music)
We embed YouTube videos that have been uploaded by YouTube users according to their Terms of Service. JukeFly acts as a search engine using legal YouTube interfaces and just makes it easier for you to watch the videos. Also, we don’t store any of the content on our servers - everything is streamed directly from YouTube. It is no different from going to YouTube.com and searching for something and watching the resulting videos. JukeFly users are not actively seeding or uploading anything - so rest assured that there is nothing illegal. You can think of JukeFly as a YouTube front-end for music
We want to be 100% legal while continuing to give our users the best musical experience. If we do come across any gray areas as far as legality is concerned we will change the functionality and keep our users informed.
Now about adding the YouTube channel to a playlist - there is no direct way to do this as yet - but it is a good suggestion and I’ll investigate it more. In the meantime you can search for the songs in the channel on JukeFly and use the results to create a playlist. I know it is not an optimal way to access the YouTube channel - but we are always in the process of adding new features and improving the UI - so we might soon have something that enables you to access the YouTube channels easily.
Thanks,
Dinesh
August 15th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Thanks. I appreciate the work you have put into Jukefly.
August 27th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Im trying to use JPMS within my own network. Even on my fileserver where I have JPMS setup when I browse to http://localhost:5235/ I just get a “400 bad request” error in the browser. Telnetting to port 5235 works so I can tell the webserver is running…is there something I’m missing?
August 27th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
KaosX,
That port and interface is for http://jukefly.com to talk to your PC Server. It appears as though you’re thinking that’s a webserver you can go to to listen to your music, am I right?
To play your music from your file server, install the JPMS then go to http://jukefly.com and on the left side click “Settings”, then click “Add Folder” to add some music.
Once some music is added, click on the left side again “Personal Music” and you should see and be able to play that music from anywhere.
September 9th, 2009 at 8:41 am
Now that the Wii’s Internet Channel already been upgraded with Flash Lite 3.1 on 1st September 2009 (with a full implementation of Adobe Flash version 8 with certain features of Flash 9), would there be a possibility in the near future that Jukefly be tried and tested on the Wii at all?
September 18th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Any chance for a ZuneHD app? also does jukefly work with WMA Lossless files?
October 9th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Any way to disable youtube videos altogether? I keep trying to listen to some of my music and it’s using youtube videos rather than the music that’s on my machine at home.
Thanks!
April 20th, 2010 at 6:40 am
My computer has been REALLY slow lately. Both the internet and the desktop are annoyingly slow. It’s a PC and it’s not new, but I’m not sure how old it is. We’ve had it for 3 years and before that, my aunt had for at least 4 years. I defragment it and do the disk cleanup regularly. And it has a lot of free memory left (it’s like 75% of the computer’s total memory is free). I have an up-to-date anti-virus program on it (BitDefender), and it runs scans on it, and has NEVER found a virus. All of the fire-walls are up and running. What could be wrong with my computer?? Please help!! *Thanks!*
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