| Current News |
| June 07, 2018 - Release 3.5.2.1 |
- Skin Editor - bug fixes where changing control properties didn't
update while making changes. This is now fixed.
- Updated to latest database engine.
- Bug fixes
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| May 24, 2018 - Rerelease 3.5.2.0 |
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| May 02, 2018 - Release 3.5.2.0 |
- 2nd Monitor can now be skinned, here's an example:
ScreenShot
- All skins updated with matching 2nd monitor skin data
- Enhanced Spectrum visualization added to 2nd monitor (spectrum
visualizations can be swapped between primary/secondary screens)
- Visualizations can now customized via the skin
- All skins updated with appropriate colors give to visualizations
- Added Options/View Settings/General - Hide Taskbar in Admin Mode
- Added Options/View Settings/Library View - Use Images When
Available
- Added Options/View Settings/Genre View - Use Images When
Available
- Added Options/View Settings/Year View - Use Images When
Available
- Added Options/View Settings/Year View - Year Color
- Album art caching updated for better performance and memory
management with extremely large music collections
- Bug fixes
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| April 20, 2018 - Rerelease 3.5.1.5 |
- Bug fixes
- More notes to come
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| March 15, 2018 - Rerelease 3.5.1.4 |
- Full Text Search performance increase - updated from FTS3 to
FTS5
- misc bug fixes
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| March 09, 2018 - Rerelease 3.5.1.4 |
- New feature - Options/System/Admin : File Management -
Duplicates
ScreenShot This feature will allow you to find artists
with duplicate album folders.
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| March 04, 2018 - Rerelease 3.5.1.4 |
- Updated code signing certificate
- SQL performance increases
- New feature - Options/System/Admin : File Management - Date/Time
ScreenShot This feature will allow you to set the data/time
stamp on files, which assists with adding/removing items in the Recently Added view.
- New feature - Options/System/Playlist - added option to start
playing music on program startup.
- New feature - Options/About – added “TouchJams Forum” button
- New feature - Added keyboard mapping function – “Skip Song – Internal”.
This
will skip a song but not effect the user interface. To make this
function appear in the keyboard mappings, you'll need to delete the
file C:\Users\(user)\AppData\Roaming\TouchJams\keymsg.bin
- Bug fix – when selecting a Library Source/Genre Item/Year Item,
and then go to Local Music Chart, Recently Added, etc., those lists
were being filtered by the previous Lib Source/Genre/Year
selection. This is now fixed.
- Bug fix – Local Music Chart – all items weren’t being displayed.
This is now fixed.
- Bug fix – when album art cache was being populated in the
background and selecting skin, TouchJams would lock up. This is now
fixed.
- Bug fix - many bugs fixed with Options/System/Admin - Library Sources - Watch
for Changes
- Bug fix - Options/Music-Karaoke-Video Library - Reset : when resetting the
library, all actions are now run in a background thread so Windows
doesn't think TouchJams is not responding
- Bug fix - Album Tracks view, sometimes the scrollbar would not
update accordingly
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| February 23, 2018 - Rerelease 3.5.1.3 |
- Auto DJ jukeboxes options - added Top Played Artists
Screen Shot
- Main views - the small "playing next" now rotates between
"playing next" and "playing now"
- Small bug fixes
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| February 20, 2018 - Rerelease 3.5.1.2 |
- Bug fix with AlbumArtist tag value - correction for "The, "
wasn't being applied. A side effect of this was the Now
Playing view to show the artist in front of the album.
- Update Library bug fixes - sometimes the Close button was
inactive after updating the library.
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| January 29, 2018 - Rerelease 3.5.1.1 |
- Bug fixes with volume levels and volume level UI
- Background processor tweaks
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| January 25, 2018 - Rerelease 3.5.1.1 |
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| January 16, 2018 |
- New skin added, Dark Blue 1360 x 768 Portrait
- New skin added, Dark Blue 1920 x 1080 Portrait
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| January 12, 2018 - Rerelease 3.5.1.1 |
- New keyboard mapping functionality: balance left, balance right,
balance center
- Album view bug fix : when displaying titles for various artists
album, items are now sorted correctly by track when track is set to
be displayed
- Album art bug fix : when upgrading to new TouchJams version
which contains db schema changes, under certain conditions the wrong
album art will be displayed. This should now be fixed.
Please note, this new TouchJams version doesn't contain db schema
changes.
- Library Source bug fix : minor bug fix where editing the folder
of a library source could cause issues
- National Music Charts bug fix : for TouchJams users in the USA,
the US chart label was wrong
- Network Remote Control bug fix : clicking search results let to
errors, this is now fixed.
- New skin added, Metal Zone 1024 x 768 by S R FAIRHURST
- New skin added, Lil Black Box 2018
- 1920 x 1080 by
Vibe FX Designs
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| January 03, 2018 - Release 3.5.1.1 |
- Update Library bug fix - cancel button causing things to hang
- Update Library - improved performance when updating image cache
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| December 29, 2017 - Release 3.5.1.0 |
- Bug fix with album art distortion
- Added functionality to specify output sound card -
Options/Sound/Volume - Output Device/Configure
- Music charts - ability to customize each chart: nation,
local file or download.
- Ability to specify image resize mode - Options/System/Health -
Internal. If the resize mode is changed, album art will be
automatically updated
- Bug fix when updating to new version of TouchJams and updating
the library yields incorrect album art
- Online skin browser within TouchJams - added
minimize/maximize/restore to window caption
- Installing new version of TouchJams will no longer require
reactivation of product key
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| December 19, 2017 - Release 3.5.0.9 |
- Added support for multiple genre tags. Multiple genres can being specified in the genre tag value
by separating each one with a delimiter. Delimiters recognized
by TouchJams are: ; , \ \\ /
- Updated the Getting Started Wizard (this appears on clean installs
only). Music folders can be specified manually or TouchJams will
scan local drives and set things up automatically.
- Update Library - prevent computer from sleeping. On large music collections and slow machines,
TouchJams will prevent the computer from going to sleep.
- Genre groups bug fixes in Options/Sound/Auto DJ and
Options/System/Music Filter.
- Bug fixes with library folders containing the single apostrophe
- Increased performance while updating the media library
- Library/Genre/Year Filter views - the lists can be displayed as
thumbnails or the old style checkboxes. Thumbnails is the new
default. To switch back to checkboxes see Options/View
Settings - Library/Genre/Year
- Web browser remote control - bug fixes
- File/Folder Watch for Changes - bug fixes.
- Year tag value validation - invalid tag values (non-numerical text, invalid
years, etc.) are now treated as empty
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| November 22, 2017 - Release 3.5.0.7 |
- Updated to latest Db version
- Updating Library Window - Music/Video/Karaoke: 1) added a few more
status indicators 2) added a Help button which will bring up a help
screen giving tech info related to performance, etc. Here's a link
to that help screen -
click here
- Updating Library: many bug fixes here and also made some
performance optimizations
- AutoDJ - Top Played / New Songs bug fixes: 1) songs were being picked more
frequently than others, better randomization code added 2) list is maintained of which
songs where played, after all songs played, the list is reset and
everything starts over
- Import via USB: somewhere along the way this became broken, it's
now fixed
- Year/Genre filters: bugs fixed where if you messed with the
Year/Genre screens the Home view would contain empty list, I believe
this is fixed now
- Year View/Year Select - removed New Releases from the list.
This was done because you can/should view the new releases via the
Recently Added view
- Year View/Year Filter - removed New Releases from the list.
Same reasoning as above, and, it just didn't make sense to be able
to filter by New Releases and by decade. Also, fixed bug where
the selections being made where not being saved correctly
- Year View/AutoDJ Year- removed New Releases from the list.
This was done since there is already an AutoDJ options for new
releases (Options/Sound/Auto DJ/Options), you can specify the source
percentage values (Library/Top Played/Recently Added).
- Options/System/Power Options - for Prevent Computer From
Sleeping, added Keep Display On and Away Mode
- Other small bug fixes
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| October 11, 2017 - Release 3.5.0.6 |
- Updated to latest Db version
- Added the ability to update each Library Item in a Library.
Before, all Library Items would have to be updated.
- Options/View Settings/Album View: added Library Filter - Force
All Libraries
- Bug fixes
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| April 26, 2017 - Release 3.5.0.5 |
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| March 9, 2017 - Release 3.5.0.4 |
- Multiple library support: ability to make active a particular
library, filter on libraries, and set which libraries are active
within Auto DJ
- Bug fixes
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| March 2, 2017 - Release 3.5.0.3 |
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| February 25, 2017 - Release 3.5.0.2 |
- Upgrade to latest database engine
- Performance increase with slower machines/main album view
- Code signing certificate renewal
- Bug fixes
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| February 3, 2017 - Release 3.5.0.1 |
- Upgrade to latest database engine
- Upgrade to latest installer
- Bug fixes
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| January 26, 2017 |
- The TouchJams Forum is open for business - click
here
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| January 10, 2017 - Release 3.5.0.0 |
- New/changed view modes - see the
screenshots
- New features
- New skins
- Upgrade to latest database engine
- Bug fixes
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| February 21, 2016 - Release 3.1.0.8 |
- Demo and Full Version setups are now code signed
- Video tag file bug fixes
- Bug fixes
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| February 07, 2016 - Release 3.1.0.7 |
- 3rd Party library updates
- Bug fixes
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| December 26, 2015 - Release 3.1.0.6 |
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| No release - Release 3.1.0.5 |
| September 23, 2015 - Release 3.1.0.4 |
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| August 11, 2015 - Release 3.1.0.3 |
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| April 23, 2015 - TouchJams Uninstall Utility |
- Since the TouchJams program uninstall doesn't remove program
data files and product key data files, the TouchJams Uninstall
Utility has been created.
- NOTE : Before running this
utility, if you have made any changes to the skins, genre images,
radio stations, etc., you need to back your data up otherwise your
files will be lost.
- This utility can be used to retrieve your TouchJams product key,
and also to delete the TouchJams product key data files.
- Here's the download link:
TJsUninstall
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| April 22, 2015 - Release 3.1.0.2 |
- Added option for deleting search results after selection added
to playlist
- Bug fix - hitting Play Now during cross fading of songs produced
unexpected results
- Uninstall - during uninstall a window will pop up with options
to delete various TouchJams data folders. Full
uninstall /
reinstall required for this to take effect.
- Bug fixes
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| February 22, 2015 - Release 3.1.0.1 |
- Image library updated to latest version
- About Box - for full version, click on product version and the
Product Key will be copied to the clipboard
- Search View - added apostrophe to symbols. When searching by
All, the Search View option Filter Symbols/Punctuation doesn’t
apply, and it was difficult to search for items containing the
apostrophe, like Ain’t and Nothin’. Full
uninstall /
reinstall required for this to take effect.
- XP works again (version 3.1.0.0 it did not) with one exception,
Options / Admin - make TouchJams run on Win startup is not
supported, you will have to do this manually. Please note, XP
is no longer supported by Microsoft.
- Bug fix - network remote local web server files were read only
causing the current playing album art to be wrong in browser.
If you still have problems with this even after updating to latest
version, you will have to perform a full
uninstall /
reinstall.
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| February 15, 2015 - Release 3.1.0.0 |
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Automatic program updates - due to server changes, program updates
will not work for v3.0.1.3 and prior. To update to the latest
version, click
here.
After you update to the latest version, program updates will
continue to work as they should.
- Program options screens - all program options screens have been
updated to give a more friendly user experience.
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Cross Fader options screen now shows the graphical representation of
the cross fade as the timers and other parameters are being changed.
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Skip File List (Options/Library/Music-Video-Karaoke) - added ability
to clear all entries. Before, items would have to be deleted one at
a time to clear the entire list.
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Enhanced library update - files updated since the last library
update are now re-read and any changes are applied to the database.
In addition, the cover art cache is reset for any changed items.
Before, Library Update would only perform add/remove operations
based on added or removed files, and the cover art cache was not
touched.
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Album View - track numbers can now be shown in the album view with
items being ordered by track number. To enable/disable this option,
see Options / View Settings / Album View. Also, within the new
Album View options, the system playlist add options can be
overridden.
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File system watch - library sources can be selectively monitored for
changes. When any changes occur, the music library will be
automatically updated in the background.
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Library Sources - this data is now stored in the main dB. Before,
the info was stored in a flat file.
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New library source property: Search Only. With this property, all
music from a library source can made to appear in the Search View
only. This comes in handy when you have a ton of music not often
played, and the intent is to still have it available but not consume
real estate on the album view.
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New library source property: Watch for Updates. With this
property, you can set which library sources are to be watched (file
system watch under Options / System / Admin must be turned on).
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3rd Party Libraries updated to their latest versions.
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Tons of bug fixes, too many to list!
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| April 05, 2014 - Release 3.0.1.3 |
- All lists now support mouse/finger smooth scrolling
- Performance increase loading album art
- Update to latest dB engine
- Update to latest installer
- Bug fixes
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| January 24, 2014 - Release 3.0.1.1 |
- Language enhancements - Options/Appearance/Language - added 2
checkboxes to show language selection buttons on the main interface.
These language selection buttons when depressed toggle the active
language.
- Skin changes to support language selection buttons.
- Bug fixes
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| January 12, 2014 - Release 3.0.1.0 |
- Enhanced Search - can now search by ALL which includes searching
by partial artist/album/title
- Enhanced Search - when searching by artist with multiple albums
in search results, clicking "x albums" shows the albums and clicking
the artist shows all titles
- BetaBrite
Classic and
BetaBrite Prism support, displays current song playing, next
song playing, and tons of other info. Sign display messages
can be fully customized.
- Performance improvements on main interface and program options
- User playlist feature additions: New, Save As, and Delete
- Options/System/Playlist - added "1 Click Add"
- Options/System/Video Settings - added ability to delay (+/-) the
audio to sync with video properly
- Options/Revenue/Coins Bills - when adding/editing keyboard
mapping items, touch screen friendly input added
- Genre View addition - Auto DJ Genre feature added. This
allows you to quickly specify which genres are active in Auto DJ.
- Options/View Settings/Genre View - this is a new options
section, when in Genre View, this enables you to specify which
sub-view: Genre Select, Genre Filter, and Auto DJ Genre
- Bug fixes
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| October 15, 2013 - Release 3.0.0.13 |
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| October 10, 2013 |
- TouchJams is now on FaceBook
- View the TouchJams National Music Charts in your browser, click
here
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| September 24, 2013 - Release 3.0.0.9 |
- Skin Editor - can now change the font for the entire skin
- Skin Editor - can now change the font and size for all skin
buttons
- Options/System/Custom Command - can now add title for command
and this will become the button text
- Now Playing View - clicking the next play album cover goes to
that album
- Bug fixes
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| September 14, 2013 - Release 3.0.0.8 |
- Bug fix with selecting active language -
Options/Appearance/Language
- Charts View / Chart Buttons: old behavior - chart buttons were hidden if no
chart data was present, new behavior - chart buttons are displayed depending on
the visibility set in the skin and the control user group properties, if no
chart data is present for a particular chart, the chart is still displayed but
with text indicating “no items”.
- Custom Command - within Options/System/Admin, a custom command can be defined
where an EXE with parameters is executed when the new /Command/ button is
depressed.
- New Shut Down View - instead of a pop-up window appearing, there is now a Shut
Down View which displays the options: Cancel, Exit TouchJams, Standby, Restart,
Shutdown. This will allow the jukebox operator to admin the access to this
functionality based on the user group. For Standby, this can be configured as
either Windows Sleep or Hibernate.
- Jukebox Playlist and User Playlist now show the number of items in the list.
- Pause/Un-pause button is now a Play/Pause button like on most CD players.
- Song Spotlight & Advertisements View - home/back button only
- DB engine - upgraded to latest version
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| August 25, 2013 - Release 3.0.0.7 |
- Music Chart multi-threading issue resolved
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| August 23, 2013 - Release 3.0.0.6 |
- Added "All Views" button to the User Group Control dialog
- Jukebox Playlist/User Playlist - increased performance with Load and Save
- Music Charts - Enqueue All will now add to Jukebox Playlist all items marked
green
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| August 13, 2013 - Release 3.0.0.5 |
- new assignable hotkey: control group UI properties. This allows for a quick and
easy way to show/hide the various screen elements based on group (Admin,
Protected, Supervisor). You can simply hover over a screen element with the
mouse, hit the assigned hot key, and alter the state for each group.
- new skins: Little Black Box 1440 x 900 and Red 1366 x 768
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| August 1, 2013 - Release 3.0.0.0 |
- Options/System/Network Remote Control - added QRCode image which is the TJs
internal web server address. This allows you to take your phone + QRCode reader
and start using the network remote control in 2 seconds.
- Song Spotlight View overhaul
- Jukebox/User Playlist - Move to Top used to swap items, now the item is moved
to the top and the other items are moved down
- Added mini Playing Next info which is displayed on most of the main views
- Now Playing screen shows how many songs are left in the jukebox playlist
- Album View - the artist/album is now displayed above the album pic
- Album View - the mini album list now has the text "More Albums" above it
- Album View - when an album is selected, the "More Albums" list now has a lazy
draw - this makes this view come up faster
- View indication - when a particular view is selected, the view button is
displayed as /active/
- Skin image generator - found in the skin editor
- New assignable hotkeys: control skin properties and select skin
- All skins reworked
- 3 Party library updates - TJs uses a handful of these libraries, from the dB
back end to the sound engine, these have all been updated to their latest
versions
- Bug fixes
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| April 19, 2013 - Release 2.9.1.11 |
- New Options item: Options/Library - "Enforce Minimum Tag Info"
- New Options item: Options/View/Recently Added - "Date/Time Source"
- Language translation related bug fixes
- Bug fixes
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| March 08, 2013 - Release 2.9.1 |
- New functionality - multilingual support
- Bug fixes with Network Remote Control, updated logo
- New functionality - customized text on main screens
- Revamped user/user groups, added Supervisor account
- Skins now support custom logos
- Bug fixes with User Playlist and Jukebox Playlist
- Bug fixes
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| January 19, 2013 - Release 2.9 |
- Updated Radio Stations
- Skin Changes
- Bug fixes
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| December 2, 2012 - Release 2.8 |
- National Music Charts
- Windows 8 compatible
- Tons of bug fixes
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| May 14, 2012 - Release 2.7 |
- Online Updates - the About Box now has a Check for Updates where the software
and skins will automatically update to the latest version
- Overhaul of all skins - new colors, backgrounds, and tweaks
- Addition of Blue skin for full HD support (1920 x 1080), view 28 albums at a
time
- Performance increases - huge music libraries (100,000+) are effortlessly
supported
- New Music - now displays New Songs and New Albums
- New Music default settings (Options/View Settings/New Songs View) - the Chart
Music is not implemented yet (99% complete)
- Playlist support - user now has full playlist support while the jukebox is in
operation
- Support for touch screen ready file/folder selection dialogs (Options/View
Settings/General/Folder/File Selection for Touch Screen)
- Improved search where symbols and punctuation can be filtered (Options/View
Settings/Search View/Filter Symbols/Punctuation)
- Scheduled Events - full event manager (St. Patty's day, etc.) where skin changes
and other things can be scheduled - Options/System/Scheduled Events
- Complete overhaul for management of users and user groups
- Complete overhaul for customizing access to program functionality per users and
groups
- Bug fixes
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| January 07, 2012 - Release 2.6 |
- Added Update Library Results window
- Bug fixes
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| January 03, 2012 - Release 2.5 |
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Misc. Updates
Bug fixes |
| December 09, 2011 - Release 2.5 hotfix |
- Ability to specify multiple library sources (drives/folders)
- Bug fix for searching artists with "The "
- Bug fix for searching titles where all results weren't being displayed
- Added option to use touch screen friendly folder picker
- Now using updated program activation library
- Other misc. bug fixes
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| November 18, 2011 - Release 2.5 - HotFix |
- Built-in screen saver
- USB Import touch screen friendly drive/folder selection
- Additional keyboard mappings
- New Help system
- New Online Help - click here
- Bug fixes
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| August 13, 2011 - Release 2.5 |
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| July 08, 2011 - Release 2.4 |
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- New feature - Radio Station Manager: this allows users to easily manage their
radio station library, such as adding, editing, and removing stations. This new
feature can be found under Program Options/Library/Radio - Manage
- Bug fixes
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| May 15, 2011 - Release 2.4 |
- Unicode support
- Bug fixes
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| April 19, 2011 - Release 2.3 |
- Added Network Remote Control template for Android devices (480 x 800)
- Performance increases
- Bug fixes
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| March 17, 2011 - Release 2.2 |
- Network Remote Control - for more information, click here.
- Skin enhancements along with new skins added
- Bug fixes
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| February 16, 2011 - Release 2.1 - Hotfix |
- Optimized SQL performance for Album/Artist All/#/A..Z command buttons - 2x
faster. This will only be noticeable with larger music collections/slower PCs.
- Bug fix with Party Mode unlock GUI
- Admin password now encrypted in TouchJams INI file
- Smoother screen updates - switching views has been optimized
- Bug fixes with skin editor
- Building another jukebox, progress is here
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| February 06, 2011 - Release 2.1 |
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| November 11, 2010 - Release 2.0 |
- Video Support
- New program options GUI
- Enhancements to skins - new components
- Enhanced dual monitor support
- Overall increase in program speed/responsiveness
- Optimized dB queries
- Misc. added program functionality: minimize button, add to playlist w/o
playing, much more
- New Search View feature - able to search for symbols (Sym button)
- New Genre View
- Pro version now available
- Updates with the online User Guide
- Bug fixes
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| May 6, 2010 - Release 1.0.0.7 |
- Using new installer
- Bug fixes
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| April 25, 2010 - Release 1.0.0.6 |
- Taskbar Icon - access various features through the taskbar icon menu
- Proxy server support for CD cover art download via Amazon web services
- Bug fixes
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| April 10, 2010 - Release 1.0.0.5 |
- Complete overhaul of internal database
- Customization of automatic cross fader
- Online skins can now be browsed and installed from within TouchJams
- Lists containing page buttons now indicate the selected page
- Additional skins added
- Improved volume support with separate volume for Internet radio
- Added functionality/efficiency for album art
- Upgrade to latest player and image libraries
- Bug fixes - too many to list.
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| Release 1.0.0.4 |
- This version never released.
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| November 17, 2009 - Release 1.0.0.3 |
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| October 21, 2009 - Release 1.0.0.2 |
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| September 19, 2009 - Release 1.0.0.1 |
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| August 22, 2009 - Release 1.0.0.0 |
- The TouchJams Forum is back - enjoy.
- Program Options/Administrator Options - added the button "Restore Factory
Defaults", selecting this will delete all user created TouchJams data files, and
TouchJams will close. Once TouchJams is restarted, the user data files will be
recreated with program defaults.
- Search View/Title - when making a selection from search results, the Add Title
View becomes visible and not the Album View
- Search View/Title - fixed bug where not all of the results were being shown
- Search View/Title - the artist is now displayed in the results
- If both ID3V1 & V2 tag info exists, ID3V2 tag info is used
- "All Artist Titles" button now functional
- Fixed image resizing issues with various views
- Added ability to load all CD cover images on startup
- Added audio file format support for : OggVorbis, FLAC, MP4, M4A
- Amazon CD cover art - now compatible with ECS4
- Now Playing View - during cross fade, current CD cover blends into the next (32
bit color depth only)
- Bug fixes.
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| August 16, 2009 - Release B.18 |
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| August 10, 2009 - Release B.17 |
- Skin changes
- Album/Artist buttons show "state"
- Library search buttons "all/#/a...z" show "state"
- Hitting F5 reloads the current skin's images
- Double clicking the current volume value brings up the program options with the
sound page as the visible page
- When changing skins, grayed out arrow bitmaps on scrollbars are regenerated
- Fixed bug where karaoke/music album view was showing the incorrect cover
images.
- When unable to stream a radio station, message window appears showing error.
- Other bug fixes.
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| July 30, 2009 - Release B.16 |
- Increased the trial period on the demo to 30 days
- In Program Options, added a Queue Options page
- Queue Options: added option where songs being added to the queue are either
randomly inserted into the list or are simply appended to the end. This only
happens when Play is selected and not with Play Next or Play Now.
- Queue Options: added configuration to limit how frequently a song can be added
to the queue.
- New Songs view: now displays the date when song added
- Jukebox/Karaoke/Radio buttons show "state" - which is active
- DB changes
- Year filter buttons: combined the "40s" & "50s" buttons into one "4/50s" button
and added a "10s" button for the decade of 2010
- Bug fixes.
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| July 23, 2009 - Release B.15 |
- Automatic Cross Fader
- WMA file support
- Karaoke support, supports second monitor, any resolution.
- Dual monitor support - the Now Playing View is shown on secondary monitor.
- PlayList file support (PLS/M3U/WPL)
- Internet Radio Station support
- TouchJams works with Windows 7 RC
- Skin Changes - previous version skins are NOT compatible with this release
- Text in Album View is abbreviated with "..." if it does not fit width-wise.
- Queue View - added "Mix Up" button to randomize list
- Program Options/Music Library - added checkbox to update library on program
startup
- New scrollbar UI for all views
- Bug fixes.
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| April 24, 2009 - Release B.14 |
- Skin Changes - previous version skins are NOT compatible with this release
- Over-hauled the skin editor UI
- Vista main program icon update
- For some MP3s, the ID3V2 tag was not being read and therefore the songs
wouldn't be added to the library. This should now be fixed.
- Album art not being displayed for MP3s where the image was not part of the tag
info and the image file (ex. cover.jpg) was located where the MP3 was/is. This
should fixed now.
- Export Song button now hidden in Party View by default
- Changes to the User's Manual
- Bug Fixes
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| March 20, 2009 - Release B.13 |
- Skin Changes - Search View now shows if searching by artist, album, or title
- Added 10-band Equalizer
- Updated to the new player control - v4
- Added, and still working on, the User's Manual
- Bug Fixes.
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| March 9, 2009 - Release B.12 |
- Skin Edit Dialog - ability to filter controls by view mode
- Rewind, Stop and Pause player buttons now functional
- Uploaded 1920 x 1080 skin - if for some reason you want to run TouchJams in HD
on your HTPC
- TouchJams is now a product of 216 Technology, LLC
- Data files are now stored under Documents And Settings, either the common
application data path or the current user application data path
- EQ & Internet radio station streaming support is in the works.
- Bug Fixes.
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| February 1, 2009 - Release B.11 |
- Vista Compatible
- Skin Tweaks
- Bug Fixes
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| December 28, 2008 - Release B.10 |
- Skin Tweaks
- Updating the album art cache can now be ran as a background thread. This allows
for the cache to be kept up to date while not interfering with normal program
use.
- The forums are up and running again, no data was lost.
- Bug Fixes
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| December 15, 2008 - Release B.9 |
- Top Played View - hitting Clear All button yields expected results
- Now Playing View - clicking album art now brings correct album/title list
- Options/Timer dialog - made to be more intuitive
- Added 84 x 84 album art cache image size for mini-album list in the album/title
view - these album art sizes are stored in the TouchJams.INI file in the EXE
folder
- Bug Fixes
- (This version was never released but all additions were migrated to B.10)
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| December 03, 2008 - Release B.8 |
- Ability to scale any skin to any screen resolution
- Bug Fixes.
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| October 01, 2008 - Release B.7 |
- A major bug was found/fixed where program would crash while viewing
albums/artists with very large music collections.
- Skin format has changed as new controls were added and some were removed.
Check out the screen shots to see what has changed.
- Support for ID3Tag year field. UI was added to filter by year (40s, 50s, 60s,
etc.).
- Auto DJ now supports year filter.
- Remote control support has been added for the USB-UIRT product: http://www.usbuirt.com
This allows TouchJams to support virtually any IR remote control!
- Dialog added with options for program/computer shut down.
- Bug Fixes.
- Remember, this software is BETA and certain functionality is not 100% in place.
If you run into an obvious /bug/, it probably means that I haven't had time to
address the issue. Also keep in mind that previous version skins are not
compatible with the most current version of TouchJams.
- Continued work but not yet /visible/ in TouchJams: CDG support - this is near complete,
dual monitor support - this is near complete
- Bug Fixes
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| August 16, 2008 - Release B.6 |
- Ability to scale any skin to any screen resolution
- Bug Fixes.
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| August 8, 2008 - Release B.5 |
- Skin changes, remember that you need to download the current skins when
installing the latest version of TouchJams
- Added UI for changing album art and ID3V2 tag information
- Bug Fixes
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| August 1, 2008 - Release B.4 |
- Export Music to facilitate making Best Of CDs - 3rd Party CD burning tools
required
- New 1024 x 768 skin - Metal
- Misc program changes
- Bug Fixes
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| July 22, 2008 - Release B.4 |
- Auto DJ mode now functional and working
- Skin changes - all skins have been updated and are available for download, 800
x 600 added.
- Misc program changes
- Bug Fixes
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| June 8, 2008 - Release B.3 |
- The TouchJams Forums are now live * again * after buying a new router and
reinstalling IIS.
- A new skin was uploaded which supports 1280 x 1024 screen resolutions. This is
work in progress.
- Bug fixes and uploaded a new setup. This version is going to be B.1 still.
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| May 31, 2008 - Release B.2 |
- Bug fixes with USB memory stick library import.
- Added a "New Songs" view. This view shows all new songs recently added to the
library.
- Bug Fixes
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| May 28, 2008 - Release B.1 |
- Bug fixes with volume manipulation
- Skin additions.
- Other bug fixes.
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| May 24, 2008 - Release A.2 |
- Installer should work now as the player OCX control wasn't being registered
before.
- Volume up/down/mute added.
- Skin modifications made and new skin zip files uploaded.
- Top Played music data remains intact even if library modifications are made.
Before, if your music library was say on drive letter C:\, top played data was
saved, then the music library was switched to say drive letter D:\, all the Top
Played data was corrupt. Now, "smart-fix" code was added so that your Top Played
data will remain intact.
- This same logic will be added to the Queue data files.
- Bug Fixes
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| May 18, 2008 - Release A.1 |
- This version contains bug fixes with the TouchJams.Ini file containing
incorrect default values which caused the program not to start up.
- Other bug Fixes
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| May 15, 2008 - Initial ALPHA release of TouchJams version A.0 |
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