Softpedia >Windows >Multimedia >Audio >Audio Players >TouchJams >  Changelog

TouchJams Changelog

What's new in TouchJams 3.5.2.7 Beta

Jan 14, 2023
  • Update to latest audio engine
  • Update to latest database engine
  • Updated code signing certificate
  • Bug fixes with volume normalization turned off
  • Misc database changes
  • Misc bug fixes

New in TouchJams 3.5.2.6 Beta (Apr 26, 2022)

  • Album art bug fixes with artist grouping

New in TouchJams 3.5.2.5 Beta (Mar 8, 2022)

  • Changes:
  • Bug fixes with volume normalization turned off
  • Misc database changes
  • Misc bug fixes

New in TouchJams 3.5.2.4 (Nov 3, 2021)

  • Cross fader bug fixes
  • Auto DJ bug fixes
  • Playlist bug fixes
  • TouchJams database changes

New in TouchJams 3.5.2.3 (Aug 24, 2021)

  • Volume normalization - Options/Sound/Volume - Configure Volume Levels
  • Album view artist grouping - Options/View Settings/General - Album View Group Artist Albums
  • AlbumArtist tag now being read from MP4 files.
  • BetaBrite issues fixed.
  • Update to latest audio engine
  • Update to latest database engine
  • Windows XP is no longer supported, and won't work
  • Overhaul of output device management (sound cards, Bluetooth, etc.)
  • Program Check for Updates working again
  • Year filters now support minimum year of 1900
  • Update to latest database engine
  • Auto-DJ improved randomness
  • Karaoke file support additions: video files and non-zipped audio file +CDG (file pairs must have same name)
  • Karaoke Auto Play - if turned on, karaoke songs keep playing, otherwise the play button must be hit between songs
  • Karaoke User Names - ability to assign a user name to the karaoke file just added to the playlist
  • Playlist View - for karaoke item thumbnails, the user name is displayed after the song title
  • 2nd monitor now playing view - for karaoke, a list of the upcoming songs/user names can be shown
  • Playlist View - item thumbnails have M, K, or V in the upper left hand corner indicating their library type: music, karaoke, or video
  • Able to utilize more memory on 64 bit systems
  • Album name sorting bugs fixes
  • Bug fixes

New in TouchJams 3.5.2.2 Beta (Jul 17, 2020)

  • Program Check for Updates working again
  • Year filters now support minimum year of 1900
  • Update to latest database engine
  • Auto-DJ improved randomness
  • Karaoke file support additions: video files and non-zipped audio file +CDG (file pairs must have same name)
  • Karaoke Auto Play - if turned on, karaoke songs keep playing, otherwise the play button must be hit between songs
  • Karaoke User Names - ability to assign a user name to the karaoke file just added to the playlist
  • Playlist View - for karaoke item thumbnails, the user name is displayed after the song title
  • 2nd monitor now playing view - for karaoke, a list of the upcoming songs/user names can be shown
  • Playlist View - item thumbnails have M, K, or V in the upper left hand corner indicating their library type: music, karaoke, or video
  • Able to utilize more memory on 64 bit systems
  • Album name sorting bugs fixes
  • Bug fixes

New in TouchJams 3.5.2.1 (Jun 7, 2018)

  • 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

New in TouchJams 3.5.2.0 (May 2, 2018)

  • 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

New in TouchJams 3.5.1.5 (Apr 6, 2018)

  • Bug fixes
  • More notes to come

New in TouchJams 3.5.1.4 (Apr 6, 2018)

  • Full Text Search performance increase - updated from FTS3 to FTS5
  • misc bug fixes

New in TouchJams 3.5.1.3 (Feb 23, 2018)

  • 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

New in TouchJams 3.5.1.2 (Feb 20, 2018)

  • 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.

New in TouchJams 3.5.1.1 (Rerelease) (Jan 25, 2018)

  • Update to latest 3rd Party DB engine
  • Bug fix - song sorting order for compilations
  • Bug fixes - artwork incorrect after update of multiple libraries - several things in here fixed

New in TouchJams 3.5.1.1 (Jan 4, 2018)

  • Update Library bug fix - cancel button causing things to hang
  • Update Library - improved performance when updating image cache

New in TouchJams 3.5.1.0 (Dec 29, 2017)

  • 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

New in TouchJams 3.5.0.9 (Dec 20, 2017)

  • 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

New in TouchJams 3.5.0.7 (Nov 27, 2017)

  • Updated to latest Db version
  • Updating Library Window (Music/Video/Karaoke): added a few more status indicators, 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 bug fixes: songs were being picked more frequently than others. Now, a 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

New in TouchJams 3.5.0.6 (Oct 12, 2017)

  • 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

New in TouchJams 3.5.0.4 (Mar 10, 2017)

  • Multiple library support: ability to make active a particular library, filter on libraries, and set which libraries are active within Auto DJ
  • Bug fixes

New in TouchJams 3.5.0.3 (Mar 10, 2017)

  • Bug fixes

New in TouchJams 3.5.0.2 (Feb 27, 2017)

  • Performance increase with slower machines/main album view
  • Code signing certificate renewal
  • Bug fixes

New in TouchJams 3.5.0.1 (Feb 4, 2017)

  • Upgrade to latest database engine
  • Upgrade to latest installer
  • Bug fixes

New in TouchJams 3.1.0.8 (Feb 23, 2016)

  • Demo and Full Version setups are now code signed
  • Video tag file bug fixes
  • Bug fixes

New in TouchJams 3.1.0.7 (Feb 9, 2016)

  • 3rd Party library updates
  • Bug fixes

New in TouchJams 3.1.0.3 (Sep 1, 2015)

  • New features
  • Bug fixes

New in TouchJams 3.1.0.2 (Apr 22, 2015)

  • 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

New in TouchJams 3.1.0.1 (Feb 23, 2015)

  • 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.

New in TouchJams 3.1.0.0 (Feb 16, 2015)

  • Program options screens - all program options screens have been updated to give a more friendly user experience.
  • Cross Fader options screen now shows the graphical representation of the cross fade as the timers and other parameters are being changed.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Library Sources - this data is now stored in the main dB. Before, the info was stored in a flat file.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 3rd Party Libraries updated to their latest versions.
  • Tons of bug fixes, too many to list!

New in TouchJams 3.0.1.3 (Apr 7, 2014)

  • All lists now support mouse/finger smooth scrolling
  • Performance increase loading album art
  • Update to latest dB engine
  • Update to latest installer
  • Bug fixes

New in TouchJams 3.0.1.1 (Jan 25, 2014)

  • Language enhancements - Options/Appearance/Language - added 2 check boxes 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

New in TouchJams 3.0.1.0 (Jan 13, 2014)

  • 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

New in TouchJams 3.0.0.13 (Oct 18, 2013)

  • Bug fixes

New in TouchJams 3.0.0.9 (Oct 18, 2013)

  • 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

New in TouchJams 3.0.0.8 (Oct 18, 2013)

  • 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

New in TouchJams 3.0.0.7 (Oct 18, 2013)

  • Music Chart multi-threading issue resolved

New in TouchJams 3.0.0.6 (Oct 18, 2013)

  • 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

New in TouchJams 3.0.0.5 (Oct 18, 2013)

  • 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

New in TouchJams 3.0.0.0 (Oct 18, 2013)

  • 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

New in TouchJams 2.9.1 (Apr 10, 2013)

  • 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

New in TouchJams 2.9 (Apr 10, 2013)

  • Updated Radio Stations
  • Skin Changes
  • Bug fixes

New in TouchJams 2.8 (Apr 10, 2013)

  • National Music Charts
  • Windows 8 compatible
  • Tons of bug fixes

New in TouchJams 2.7 (Apr 10, 2013)

  • 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

New in TouchJams 2.6 (Apr 10, 2013)

  • Added Update Library Results window
  • Bug fixes

New in TouchJams 2.5 (Apr 10, 2013)

  • 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