I use Media Center for a Pool Room Jukebox. It was the primary reason I switched to MC from an old program called Ejukebox.
Back in 11 no less.....
Thank you for your purchase of Media Center 17 from JRiver, Inc. for $49.98.I was asked to share mine here. I am a real wordy guy, I will try to make this short, but to describe the changes over the years will take some writing. I have attached the current MC Main view here, and try to describe how I got here.
10k DTS files, 15k Music Video files, and 130,000+ Stereo Music.
I use split view to make a now playing column on the right, set to remove songs once played
I basically just use one view for the Music portion of the MC. I put both Audio AND Video in the same view.
Here is the view
[Filename (path)]=[\\ss1\Music" [Media Type]=[Video],[Audio] -[Filename (path)]="New Music" -[Filename (path)]="\Christmas" -[Filename (path)]="\\SS1\Music\Extra" ~sort=[Channels],[Artist],[Album],[Track #][/color]
For the alphabet selection I use this....
listbuild(1, \,
If(Regex([Artist], /#^(?:The )?([A-Za-z])#/), [R1], 0-9 etc.),
)&datatype=[/color]
My special header for name uses this Title Name <font color="00ff00"> DTS=Green; <font color="0000ff"> Videos=Blue)
And this for the data
ifelse(isequal([Media Type], Video, 1), <font color="00aaff"> [Name]<//font>,isequal([Channels], 6, 1), <font color="00FF00"> [Name]<//font>,isequal([Channels], 2, 1), <font color="FFFFFF"> [Name]<//font>,1,<font color="FFFFFF"> [Name]<//font>)For Videos, I created a naming structure, with three fields: Name, Artist, Album. Where Album is actually the location of the video
Ie.... Bob's Your Uncle - Bob - {Fallon}
The curly brackets make sure to show the album, no extra dashes on the name ruin it.
The MC runs on a fast machine with a twin output nvidia Card. One for the main interface, one split to many tvs showing either the video, or a special Visualization I created. It has the album cover, Plus data for Artist , Album, Name, Duration, time remaining, whether it is DTS or not, etc
We also have Gforce and AEON visualizations. They are really cool, but some find it too busy and just want simple data.
I am very happy with the current setup, I would be glad to help anyone trying to make a Jukebox. I will keep checking here.
I also have a Media Center in the front room, with access to thousands of movies and tv shows, also quite customized.
I have a cool field I made called "Audience" and by putting the name of a family member in that field, it propagates it to all episodes of the series. I then use that as a primary sort in Theater View. The user gets a list of shows just for him, ignoring the rest.
In my reorg (happening now) of my music, I am going to use the Audience field to make a Genre Field that will restrict the genre to a list I have created. It will be a great way to help organize for pool nights.
Let me know if I am unclear anywhere, and I will answer any questions if I can.
Don
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