JukeFly new release
October 28th, 2009 by Dinesh NairIt 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
October 28th, 2009 at 6:41 am
Well this is nice but I just installed the new server and I can’t get music to play on either a remote web browser on another pc or just locally through a web browser. What’s the deal? Sucks, wish I could just go back to the old version which worked just fine.
October 28th, 2009 at 6:52 am
Ok the secret is to shut down the server completely. Shut down all of your clients. This is after the install. Start up the server again by itself and let it work on scanning playlists for a few minutes. Then start the clients up. Seems to do the trick.
November 5th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Is there some reason that when you import a playlist, it doubles the number of songs in the count, and adds blank lines in the playlist? Not a problem functionally really, but still kind of annoying…
November 19th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Same playlist problems here: a lot of blank lines after adding songs to a playlist and when I add 1 song to a new playlist 2 songs are counted. And when I play a playlist random it stops playing after 1 or a few songs. Can it be because of the blank lines?
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:19 pm
wklein,
The issue has been fixed. Thanks for letting me know. Please let us know if you see any other issues or have any suggestions by leaving a note here or using the feedback link on jukefly.com
Thanks,
Dinesh
January 13th, 2010 at 9:34 am
I’m confused. How come I choose an option to ’share music’ and send the link to a friend and it won’t play? Some songs do, some songs don’t….what’s the point of sharing music if you can’t actually let them listen to it?
June 6th, 2010 at 8:47 am
I just stumbled on this software and currently updating the local server with my music files. I have about 35000 tracks. Will this crash the server or have issues with large libraries?