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Hi, I appreciate it is for fun, and I also realise how much work goes into it. The nag screen is of course just that, however my point was, IMO its a bit TOO naggy and almost put me off, and may well have already put others off, and whilst as you say, the odd $19 is hardly going to pay your time and effort, the extra long nag screen might lose some gameex users/supporters. I hope I didnt come accross as one of those people that wants everything for nothing, if I did then I apologise, I have spent an absoulte fortune on the jukebox project, and whilst you may argue that another $19 wont make much difference - another $10 here, $30 there for "fully functional versions" soon adds up which was my point. I am pretty fluent in vb and whilst have zero knowledge of the multimedia side of things, I could, time permitting throw together a custom app, but I have neither the time or inclination to do so which is why I have been looking at commercial/freeware/other type apps. I am still undecided as to what I am going to use, apart from the fact I am unable to customize the menus or boot right into the jukebox, I will say that gameex is the best front end I have seen and I am still in 2 minds whether to use it for the jukebox. As far as customisable menus go, I may be wrong but I would have though it could be implemented pretty easily, of couse its not my software and as mentioned, there are already gripes about the developers priority. Once again, I hope that I havnt come accross in the wrong way, I think its great that there is a product that is "designed by a user for the users" so to speak and I really do appreciate the work that has gone into the app and I hope that the developer(s) carry on making changes and adding some of the followers requests. Regards

Thanks for the replies, The reason I didnt pay is because I dont see the point in paying for something if Im not going to use it - hence the title of this topic. The nag screen almost put me off trialling it anyway, theres nag screens then theres nag screens.... Im sure these have put off many more people - Im pretty patient as a rule but came very close to uninstalling it. I admit it is one of, if not the best front ends I have come accross yet, but if it isnt what I need then I'll need to look for an alternative before I pay. The seek feature isnt too much of a problem, but I really would like it to fire up straight into the jukebox, is a menu editor release on the cards, if so do we have an approximate date, at the moment the jukebox is the important thing. Thanks

Did I ask dum questions or does no one know the answer? Just I see 36 hits and no replies

Hi all, Finally got things up and running, just a few questions to comfirm that I can do what I think before I pay. At the moment i'm just doing a jukebox for the other half - this is my cunning plan to get away with making a mame cab in the near future - she has a jukebox - i want a mame cab! What I would like to confirm is, can I remove all the other menus and have gameex fire up straight into the jukebox and have no other menus apart from jukebox related ones. I had a quick look in the config files and it does seem that this is the case, however I got sick and tired of having to wait ages for the nag screen to go after every little change I made so hopefully someone can give me a straight yes or no on this one. Likewise with the controls, I see the default buttons has no pause or seek for music, but they do have keyboard contols, presumably I can remap these? Thanks

So basically as long as I rip a full cd then it should work? Also is there a way to refresh the music list from within the program? What I plan to do is have my jukebox machine on a lan and copy music over from another pc so I need someway to update the music or is this automatic? Thanks

Hi all, Found Gameex and seems ok, mame working really well, but I am struggling with the jukebox. I copied a few mp3 folders accros to C:\testmusic and although it lists SOME ot the folders, not all, for eg I created a new folder called "test album" but this doesnt show. Also it only lists artist not album, what is the proper folder structure? Also is there a way to refresh the list if say I copied some more over? Thanks