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The Jukebox enables to display a list of music pieces, to play them, to create automatically Web pages...
The Jukebox neither change or copy your music files, it only links to files stored on your hard disk.
For example, deleting a file from the jukebox list does not delete this file from your hard disk.
A jukebox list can include MUS, MU3, ABC, MIDI, KAR... files.
The jukebox window is managed independently from document windows.
Double-clicking a jukebox item opens the matching document in a new window. You can then edit the score.
When modifying a document, jukebow is updated automatically. Information is stored in a file whose extension is .BOX.

Opening the Jukebox

You can open the jukebox either through the "File" menu, or through its icon in the "Play tools" palette.

Display

At the top of the jukebox window, there are buttons for playing, skipping to next or previous piece.

Below, the file list. This list can be sorted by ascending or descending order for each of the array column.
To sort the files manually, click the file with Command (Ctrl) key depressed and move this item up or down.

Information that can be displayed in the list is :

• File name
• Folder name in which the file is stored
• Music category (style)
• Last modification date
• Whether the file includes lyrics or not
• Music duration
• Author's Web page address (clicking this address opens the Web page)
• Author's e-mail address (clicking the e-mail address sends an e-maill)
• File size on disk
• Complete piece title
• Piece composer
• Piece comments
• Time elapsed on this piece
• Whether the file is protected or not

• To specify what columns have to be displayed, open the pop-up meny (green arrow at top left) and select the columns to hide/display
• To change a column width, click its right edge.
• To activate a column, click its title. Pieces are then sorted according to this column. When a column is active and a new piece is inserted, it is automatically sorted.
• When a column is active, a little blue triangle shows the sorting order : up for ascending, down for descending. Click the column title again to reverse the sorting order.
• To change the column order, click the title with Shift key depressed and move the column right or left.

Keyboard

By typing characters on the keyboards, a search string is built. Selected list item switches to the first item that matches this string.

Here is a summary of keyboard key that have an effect in the jukebox window.

• Return/Enter opens the selected document in a new window
• Escape : stops playing. If the Karaoke window is open, stops the Karaoke.
• Spacebar : starts/stops playing
• Up arrow : switches to previous item
• Down arrow : switches to next item
• + : Adds a file to the list
• - or Shift+backspace : deletes the current item from the list
• Letter or number : adds the character to the search string
• Backspace : deletes the last character from the search string
• Tab : searches the next item that matches the current search string.

Special processing can be applied to the jukebox list.
You can exporte the list as a Web page or apply operations to all files in the jukebox list.

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