Thankyou for your downloading Ultimate Mp3 Jukebox V2.

INSTALLATION
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Ultimate Mp3 Jukebox V2 is a major upgrade over V1 and there have been changes made to the directory structure that the program uses.  You do not have to uninstall Ultimate Mp3 Jukebox V1 to install V2.

Just run setup.exe included in the zip file with this file "install.txt" and follow the prompts to install Ultimate Mp3 Jukebox V2.

The default installation path will be "c:\program files\ultimate mp3 jukebox" (if C: is your system drive).  In most circumstances this will not have to be changed.

The other options available in the installation are to create a desktop icon and a quick launch icon.  You can check one of these, both or none.

If you have a registered copy of Ultimate Mp3 Jukebox V1 then you will have to copy your license into the license folder for Ultimate Mp3 Jukebox V2.  To do this open explorer, go to "c:\program files\ultimate mp3" (or wherever you installed V1 to) and locate "ultimate.urg", copy this file to "c:\program files\ultimate mp3 jukebox\license".

When you run the program for the first time, refer to the "Getting Started" section in the help file to find out how to configure Ultimate Mp3 Jukebox for use on your system.


WHAT'S NEW
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- Help File.  As painful as it was I have create Help and also Tips on startup.

- Most obviously the interface has been totally redone.  I have not completely finalized the skins implementation so I have not included it for the moment, it should appear in the next release.

- WMA & OGG file support added.  Now Ultimate Mp3 Jukebox will also play WMA & OGG files (if they are not tagged then look for them under <no name>->Files in the Artist View).  I will hopefully be finalizing a new version of Ultimate Mp3 File Manager soon with WMA & OGG tagging included.

- ID3V2 tag support. Ultimate Mp3 Jukebox will now read the ID3V2 tags from your Mp3 files. This is the preferred tagging method as it overcomes the 30 character limitations of ID3V1.

- Cross Fading support.  Ultimate Mp3 Jukebox will now fade out a track as it is finishing and fade in the next one.

- Better File Scanning.  Now you don't have to rescan all of your files every time.  Ultimate Mp3 Jukebox will look for modified files only.  This cuts down scanning time a lot as long as the initial scan has be done.

- Album Covers.  Ultimate Mp3 Jukebox will now display album covers if they are saved in a jpeg or windows bitmap format (jpg or bmp).  You can set a path for them to be found (Settings->General) or Ultimate Mp3 Jukebox will look in the path of the currently playing file.  The files must be named 'Artist - Album' for this to work.

- Alarm Clock.  A simple alarm clock implementation has been included.  You can set a time on, time off or both.

- The playlist editor has been modified and fixed, it appears that it was a bit broken.  You can now create a playlist and send it straight to the player.

- Visualizations.  The visualization window can now display a spectrum as well as left, right and center oscilloscopes.  All can have colors and sizes modified.

- The Ultimate Stacker.  I like to think of this as a Virtual CD stacker.  You've got all of your CDs converted to MP3 right, just put the ones you want to hear into the stacker.  (It only plays at random).  You can also make Virtual Compilation CDs by adding a playlist into the stacker.

- Minimum resolution is now 640x480 to better suit some TV-out Video Cards.  Make sure you use small fonts, and you will probably want to hide the Stacker, Song Title and Toolbar panels.

- A nicety rather that a feature, but Artists who have a name starting with 'The' eg 'The Offspring','The Kinks' etc can now be found at 2 locations in the Artist List.  'The Offspring' can also be found as 'Offspring, The' this is to overcome the problem of looking for an artist that starts with 'The', ie now you can look for 'Offspring' and find it, whether it is tagged as 'The Offspring' or 'Offspring'.

- New, Cleaner installation and uninstallation.  

- There are also various other bug fixes plus some internal improvements that probably won't be obvious, but they're there.


LICENSE
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This program is Copyright 2002 Tony Murphy.  You may redistribute the zip file as long as it remains in it's orignal form and no files are modified.  The unregistered version of this software can only store 300 files in the music library.

Registering your version will unlock the file limit and you will be able to access your entire music collection, it will also be valid for all future versions of Ultimate Mp3 Jukebox.  If you have purchased a license file then you must look after it.  It is your key to unlocking the full functionality of Ultimate Mp3 Jukebox.  This key entitles you to install Ultimate Mp3 Jukebox on all PCs that you own personally.  Redistribution of your license file is not allowed.


CONTACT DETAILS
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If you have any problems, questions or queries then please don't hesistate to email me, ultimatemp3@murphnet.net or visit the website, http://ultimatemp3.murphnet.net.

I really do appreciate any feedback that you can give me.  If you would like to see any improvements or modifications then please let me know, I enjoy the challenge.

Remember to check back at http://ultimatemp3.murphnet.net for updates.  Also remember that if you purchase a license it's yours for good and will work with all future versions of Ultimate Mp3 Jukebox.


Thankyou again for your interest in Ultimate Mp3 Jukebox, enjoy!