Jazler24

When you walk into a large commercial space, music comes from everywhere. There’s a certain appeal if the music in the shop you’re in is good. There’s no DJ to select songs that play, but rather automated tasks that play some songs from a given collection. This is exactly what Jazler24 can do, and it can even be used at home.

You need to know that the application requires .NET Framework to be installed on the computer for proper functioning, but latest Windows iterations come with the feature built-in, so there’s a chance you already have it deployed.

In terms of visual design, the application is wrapped in a custom-built interface, with clean buttons and elements just to give it a little personality. It does look good, but the large buttons can make the whole thing feel a bit cluttered at times, but there’s a full-screen view in this regard, and you can even resize the main window by dragging the borders.

A left panel is used to display the currently selected playlist and song. There’s a preview button next to each song in the list, with options to remove them, or simply have them moved down the list to play later on.

You can’t just add files by dragging them over the main window, so you need to create a folder and place all your songs there. A built-in dialog lets you select folders, with options to create more than one playlist.

One of the application’s main features is to process all given playlists and start rendering songs at custom time intervals. That’s right, you can make the application start playing a set of songs at a certain hour, and even repeat this on a daily basis.

Jazler24 is a neat application you can use to somehow create a virtual DJ. Simply creating multiple playlists and configuring the schedule is enough, and multiple management methods can be used either to prevent others from messing up configurations, or allow a minimum intervention, such as changing order of songs or queuing one.