TouchJams News

How do I get the latest version of TouchJams?  Click here.

• If you already have TouchJams installed, simply download and run the install.

Download Links:

• Standard Full Version - download  (this is what most people will want)
• Demo Version - download
• Standard Full Dongle Version - download
• Commercial Version - download

Changes:

• AlbumArtist tag now being read from MP4 files.
• BetaBrite issues fixed.

• If you already have TouchJams installed, simply download and run the install.

Download Links:

• Standard Full Version - download  (this is what most people will want)
• Demo Version - download
• Standard Full Dongle Version - download
• Commercial Version - download

Changes:

• 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.)

• If you already have TouchJams installed, simply download and run the install.
• The beta version has db changes and therefore you will have to update your media library when running the first time.  This also means that you will lose some settings such as the filters, play history, etc. 

Download Links:

• Standard Full Version - download  (this is what most people will want)
• Demo Version - download
• Standard Full Dongle Version - download
• Commercial Version - download

Changes:

• 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

• 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

• Bug fixes

• 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

• Bug fixes
• More notes to come

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

• New feature - Options/System/Admin : File Management - Duplicates   ScreenShot  This feature will allow you to find artists with duplicate album folders. 

• Updated code signing certificate
• SQL performance increases
• New feature - Options/System/Admin : File Management - Date/Time  ScreenShot  This feature will allow you to set the data/time stamp on files, which assists with adding/removing items in the Recently Added view.
• New feature - Options/System/Playlist - added option to start playing music on program startup.
• New feature - Options/About – added “TouchJams Forum” button
• New feature - Added keyboard mapping function – “Skip Song – Internal”.  This will skip a song but not effect the user interface.  To make this function appear in the keyboard mappings, you'll need to delete the file C:\Users\(user)\AppData\Roaming\TouchJams\keymsg.bin
• Bug fix – when selecting a Library Source/Genre Item/Year Item, and then go to Local Music Chart, Recently Added, etc., those lists were being filtered by the previous Lib Source/Genre/Year selection.  This is now fixed.
• Bug fix – Local Music Chart – all items weren’t being displayed.  This is now fixed.
• Bug fix – when album art cache was being populated in the background and selecting skin, TouchJams would lock up.  This is now fixed.
• Bug fix - many bugs fixed with Options/System/Admin - Library Sources - Watch for Changes
• Bug fix - Options/Music-Karaoke-Video Library - Reset : when resetting the library, all actions are now run in a background thread so Windows doesn't think TouchJams is not responding
• Bug fix - Album Tracks view, sometimes the scrollbar would not update accordingly

• 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

• 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.

• Bug fixes with volume levels and volume level UI
• Background processor tweaks

• 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 skin added, Dark Blue 1360 x 768 Portrait
• New skin added, Dark Blue 1920 x 1080 Portrait

• New keyboard mapping functionality: balance left, balance right, balance center
• Album view bug fix : when displaying titles for various artists album, items are now sorted correctly by track when track is set to be displayed
• Album art bug fix : when upgrading to new TouchJams version which contains db schema changes, under certain conditions the wrong album art will be displayed.  This should now be fixed.  Please note, this new TouchJams version doesn't contain db schema changes.
• Library Source bug fix : minor bug fix where editing the folder of a library source could cause issues
• National Music Charts bug fix : for TouchJams users in the USA, the US chart label was wrong
• Network Remote Control bug fix : clicking search results let to errors, this is now fixed.
• New skin added, Metal Zone 1024 x 768 by S R FAIRHURST
• New skin added, Lil Black Box 2018 - 1920 x 1080 by Vibe FX Designs

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