Jajuk

Jajuk is an open source, multi-platform and free software project that has been designed from the offset to act as an advanced jukebox application, allowing users to effortlessly organize huge collections of music files. Supports a wide range of audio file formats.

Features at a glance

Key features include advanced audio playback functions, a powerful engine, built-in search functionality, support for displaying and editing audio tags, system tray support, an easy-to-use and straightforward graphical user interface, as well as support for album art and playlists.

Engine features

As the engine is the most important part of the software, it is very important to mention here that it features an automatic rating system, automatic indexing of files, device synchronization, support for custom properties, support for unmounted devices, Audio-CD scanning capabilities and collection reporting.

Easy to use GUI

As mentioned, Jajuk’s graphical user interface (GUI) is easy to use and straightforward, featuring dockable views and perspectives, keyboard shortcuts, look and feel support, support for multiple languages, Wikipedia view for displaying the artist’s discography and collection stats and charts.

Player functions

Jajuk can also act as a digital DJ and features ambience management, configurable cross-fade, recursive playback, repeat, push and shuffle functionality. It can shuffle the entire music collection and provides various startup modes.

Under the hood and supported OSes

The application is written entirely in the Java programming language and using Java Swing for the graphical user interface. It is a platform independent application, supported on GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware platforms.

Availability and requirements

Being written in Java, Jajuk requires the latest Java Runtime Environment to be installed on the computer you wish to run the software (check the requirements section for more details). It is distributed as source and binary archives for all RPM- or DEB-based GNU/Linux operating systems, including Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Linux Mint and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

What is new in this release:

• [Windows only] If upgrading to 1.10.4 from earlier release : please uninstall Jajuk first as the installer changed (your collection will remain unchanged).
• Jajuk requires Java 1.7+ to run
• A deep refresh will be proposed to you to take into account changes to tags and album covers if you upgrade from a pre-1.9 release. You can perform it manually from Devices view / right click / Force Refresh / Deep.
• [Windows or OSX in Web Start mode] The first startup will take a while (in the "Initial checkups" step), as the required mplayer executable is downloaded
• [Linux] It is strongly recommended to install mplayer if not already done to support every audio formats and to get a better sound.

What is new in version 1.10.8:

• 15 bug fixes, better shuffling, hotkeys support under 64bits Windows systems, Spanish langpack updated, new "Delete" option from the queue

What is new in version 1.10.7:

• 15 bug fixes, better shuffling, hotkeys support under 64bits Windows systems, Spanish langpack updated, new "Delete" option from the queue

What is new in version 1.10.1:

• [Suggestion view] view stucked in some cases
• [Cover view] Sometimes busy label stuck instead of cover
• Taskbar visible in full screen mode
• Saving lyrics for mp3 creates an undesired file
• [Table views] Wrong selection in table
• Saving lyrics only works one time per Jajuk session for WAV files
• Toast steals window focus
• [Seven 64 bits] Installer fails
• Jajuk crash during first time session if user skip the wizard

What is new in version 1.9.2:

• 13 bugs have been fixed (average gravity: 5.53 / 10).

What is new in version 1.9.1:

• Eight bugs have been fixed.

What is new in version 1.9:

• Changes include: a better table/tree synchronization, the new Repeat all feature, drag and drop improvements, a new notification system (Toast), extra tags support (it is now possible to see any tag type from Jajuk), covers from tags support, a Prepare Party feature large rework, and lyrics read/write from/to tags. Moreover, Mac OS X support has been greatly enhanced.

What is new in version 1.8.4:

• Fixpack, 7 bugs fixed.

What is new in version 1.8:

• Many ergonomics improvements have been made to make jajuk look better and be easier to use.
• A full screen mode is now available.
• An Artist view featuring the artist biography and albums has been added.

What is new in version 1.7:

• Jajuk 1.7 comes with major performance enhancements and a brand new rating system.

Requirements:

• Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment
• MPlayer