Java Jukebox 1.12 review

jjukebox is a multiuser music server capable of selecting music appropriate to it's current listeners

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Ian Hawkins & John Baker

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jjukebox is a multiuser music server capable of selecting music appropriate to it's current listeners. It's robust enough for you to store your music (for example, the popular mp3 format) over different locations (network drives, cdrom's) and not 'hang' when any device fails.

The music server has been designed around reliability and extensibility, making it extremely reliable even when running under very 'dubious' circumstances.

There is no limit to the amount of music other than the resources of the computer that you are running jjukebox on, or what types of music you can add to the music server, jjukebox can play many different types of music format thanks to Sun's JavaMedia framework, and JavaZooms JavaLayerPlayer

Here are some key features of "Java Jukebox":
Robust management of music mounted on other computers - if a remote computer becomes unreachable jjukebox automatically unmounts all the music stored on it without affecting play.
Ratings system - so that people can rate tracks they like/hate and jjukebox will do it's best to only play tracks people currently logged into it like.
Programmable fading between tracks for smooth music transitions.
Coded in pure java - can run on any platform with a conforming Java Virtual Machine

What's New in This Release:
Added in this release:

A new looping queue - Plays the current queue forever.
Faster magazine loading and saving.
Beta GUI Client.
Beta DAAP server.

Fixes for this releaes:

Installer bugs from previous versions fixed - GNOME and KDE shortcuts are now correctly created.
Play bug where player would sometimes randomly stop playing between tracks has been fixed.
Increased playback buffer to help prevent skipping on slower machines.
Client/Server code tidied up and fixes done mainly concerning server responses.
Updated player jars, and a fix for 1.5 (Java 5) vm where volume setting would cause an exception when a new track was started.
Multicast DNS fixes, this will form part of server clustering and easy server locating for the GUI client.