Post by kickapps on Jul 12, 2016 10:29:03 GMT 10
Fairly new here, this is my media player that's been an on going project for a few months now, and is the 3rd iteration in the Jukebox line (Jukebox 1, Jukebox 2).
This is very heavily in beta, and far from being releasable.
Features:
- Album Art Lookup
- Lyrics Lookup
- ID3 Tagging
- Clean Interface
Requirements:
(These are current and are expected to change in the future)
- 64MB RAM
- 7MB Available hard drive space
- Dual Core Processor (1GHz or more)
- Internet Connection for lyrics and album art
Jukebox 2X is closed source. No download for now.
Jukebox 2X
Posted Jul 12, 2016 10:29:03 GMT 10
Last Edit: Jul 12, 2016 10:32:01 GMT 10 by kickapps
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Post by Justin Lopez on Jul 13, 2016 0:21:43 GMT 10
Yoooooo just stop, completely a copy of Groovy. If you're gonna be copying awesome projects since you can't make a good app then foh. Completely a copy of Groovy, only thing changed is the album art and a few more. Everything else is the same, someone delete this garbage.
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Post by kickapps on Jul 13, 2016 0:45:10 GMT 10
You're joking, right? This is nothing like Groovy. Additionally, this has been an ongoing project longer than Groovy as far as I'm aware. Plus this application revolves around simplicity, I've seen Groovy and while it is fairly simple, mine puts what you want to access FIRST. Not to mention this is my take on media players. Your statement is the equivalent to someone saying "Oh look, there's a mobile phone! Oh wait, there's another mobile phone from a different manufacturer! They look different but they still do the same things, with a different price!". While those two mobiles look different, they perform differently under the hood. No fanboyism here, but it's like iOS an Android. Both call, text, play music, browse the web, get your emails, download apps from the app store, but both devices are different, they're different designs and take-on-things from individual manufacturers. This is just an analogy, but I think it stands true. Go troll someone else. Just because Groovy beat me to it, doesn't mean my media player IS Groovy.
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Post by kickapps on Jul 13, 2016 1:02:55 GMT 10
 So, let's count the similarities:
The playback icons. Technically this shouldn't count as these are the stock icons included in DotNetBar under the "Material" category.
Seekbar. It's slightly similar, it has a different colour, it's relocated above the controls. So what? Are you gonna slam those other people for having web browsers that resemble Chrome?
Dark & Light form contrasting - I personally love having a light title bar, light bottom bar and a dark center. Contrasts well, and is a design that I've been using for a while. It's even in some of my other applications. So what that Groovy has it too? They're different colours.
If you really don't like people to be entitled to their own take on things, designs, features, then gtfo. Chrome and Firefox both have a developer console, both browse the web, both have extensions, history, bookmarks, does it make them the same? NO.
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Post by Michel Flat on Jul 13, 2016 1:33:27 GMT 10
For Justin Lopez.
Your comment is totally inappropriate. He has the right to create his project. And I do not see how that is a copy of Grovvy, except the play bar.
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Post by kickapps on Jul 13, 2016 1:46:05 GMT 10
Thank you Michel Flat 
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Post by Nathan Lecompte on Jul 13, 2016 13:37:09 GMT 10
Haha, nah similarities don't matter. I would say that both of them "copied" the design style (white media player buttons, grey color scheme, white titlebar buttons, a solid colored status bar located at either the bottom or top) of my media player which has been around since 2012 and was released in 2013: Lumia Player, check it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IUMf7_uGcIBut...since I'm a nice guy, I honestly couldn't care less (mainly also because it's pretty old). 
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Post by kickapps on Jul 14, 2016 0:33:39 GMT 10
 I had completely forgotten about Lumia Player to be fair, I had tried it a few years ago and thought it was pretty cool! Although I do like having light top & bottom sections on the form and a dark center, I think it goes well and doesn't really clash. I use that colour scheme for a few other applications too. Although I do actually have an idea for a minor user interface change, that I'll probably integrate when I get round to implementing a "library" feature. Also to add to my above argument, Jukebox actually has a better file indexing system than Groovy. Groovy searches the top folder (e.g.If you point to \Music\, it will read the tracks in that folder but not sub folders like \Music\ArtistName\), while Jukebox does thorough top-folder and subdirectory searching, thus reducing the amount of folders you need to import.
Jukebox 2X
Posted Jul 14, 2016 0:33:39 GMT 10
Last Edit: Jul 14, 2016 0:35:09 GMT 10 by kickapps
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Post by Nathan Lecompte on Jul 14, 2016 13:25:21 GMT 10
Haha thanks, yeah I think I made it in a week or so (I was playing around with a couple things), so not adding any additional features weren't really a concern. I'm sure other users will provide some feedback which you can use to improve upon your project, if you need any help with adding any additional features; feel free to ask a question in the "Questions" section (as long as it's logical and preferably isn't in extremely vague - those are the worst ). I don't see it much as "the differences are what make each better than the other", I see it more as "the differences are what make them unique from each other".
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I had completely forgotten about Lumia Player to be fair, I had tried it a few years ago and thought it was pretty cool! Although I do like having light top & bottom sections on the form and a dark center, I think it goes well and doesn't really clash. I use that colour scheme for a few other applications too. 
