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Oh crap, that’s not good. not been on here for a while, busy with work and trying to move house…but got an email last night to say Adrian at Juke of Shrewsbury had managed to sort the circuit boards out on the 506. Been down today and collected it, just connected it all back together and it works great. I can’t recommend this guy enough if you ever need things done

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With work and as an interest I have found my way around computer software over the years…

Yes the 477 is a 1970’s jukebox, I looked at that one on eBay the other day, the outer box is homemade and the 507 wallbox is rough with a capital R.

I know what you mean about the vinyl verses mp3 bit…I’m just torn at the minute because he wants £150 for the box…or £110 for the mp3 plus transformer…I’ll need to think a bit more.

Good luck with the changes…if you get stuck let me know and I’ll do some screen shots 🙂

Alan

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Hi Paul,

That’s good news then…

In answer to your question “Do you know if is possible to edit the names of the artist when they are in the folder ?”

Yes quite easily….

1) Go to the folder and left click with your mouse on the track you want to modify
2) When it highlights then right click with your mouse on the track
3) From the pop up menu, the bottom choice will be properties – click properties
4) When the properties pop up box appears, choose the Details tab at the top
5) The top will be description – click in the “title” box and change the name of the track to what you want
6) In the section media you will see a section “contributing artist” – click in the box and change the name of who it’s by
7) Once you’ve made your changes, click “apply” at the bottom…then click ok

Job done

That will change the details, but if you have already put that track in your playlist you may need to delete it from the list and add it back in….I’m saying possibly as I don’t think wall2mp3 software will update it without reading it back in again.

It’s kind of addictive…I’m looking at a Rockola 477 base unit…the guy wants more for the wallbox than his jukebox…I’m thinking it might fit in the corner of my room lol

Regards

Alan

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Hi Paul,

Sorry I’ve been working away and busy so haven’t had a chance to catch up….

In answer to your questions, no it doesn’t matter where you have the master folder but the way the software works, you need to navigate everytime for every song back to that folder…again the software is a bit clumsy in that respect and time consuming.

Media player will rip each cd down to it’s own folder within your music folder, assuming you have pointed media player to rip music to your music documents.

With regards to copying and pasting, you will probably need to go to the actual folder that holds the ripped music and copy it from there. I’ve never tried doing it the way you suggest so couldn’t advise doing it that way.

Once they are all in then yes you can just move the selections using the arrows.

I ended up taking them to The Juke of Shrewsbury, I found him by word of mouth and specialises in old electronics, so fingers crossed he says he will get back to me in a few weeks.

Regards

Alan

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Hi Paul,

So you have progress…I can see what you’re doing wrong, all the tracks must be in one folder. When you are asking it to import from folder it is expecting to populate the whole playlist, when you choose another folder it will start again from the beginning and hence the reason it’s overwriting.

You have two choices,

a) put all the songs in a single folder, create a folder that you are going to use as your master folder. Then copy all the songs from the first album, paste these into your master folder. Go back to the next music folder and repeat, copy all tracks and paste into your master folder. When you have enough tracks in your master folder then import them into the playlist. This will import them in a random order and not necessarily in the order you want them.

b) more time consuming but if you want a particular order and matching a side to b side…copy and paste the songs into the master folder as above. When you have enough songs in the folder then you will have to use the selection menu builder, for want of a better description….and then choose one track at a time and load it into the list. So selection 1 in slot 1, selection 2 in 2 etc. etc. If you need to move them then use the arrows up and down in the middle to change the order. If you decide that you don’t want a particular song, you cant delete it, but what you can do is load another song into that position and it will overwrite the original.

Hope that helps, give it a try and if you have any problems let me know.

Hopefully my boxes will be going away for repair this week, I wanted to make sure the mp3 player was working ok though so the guy can test everything. Just hooked it up to some old PC speakers and set it to random play after 30 seconds….worked a treat 🙂

Alan

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I’ve only had contact with him once through eBay, I just put all the tracks into one folder then just let the software sort them out because I didn’t want A and B sides, just a random selection.

I’ve just tried adding 6 tracks using the 506 selection and they went in fine, what selection are you using on the drop down menu and I’ll give it a go tomorrow

Regards
Alan

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Cheers for the info, I’m going to try and get over to Discomatics in the next week or two. Safer to take it there than use a courier.

Powered the 507 up tonight, everything was going well…select 1, select 2, select 3….buzzing noise and a warm smell followed by everything going off apart from four bulbs 🙁

Regards
Alan

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Hi Paul,

I’ve bought the manual for both of them now, there isn’t many bits that are compatible. If any one needs a copy and knows how to upload them to the site, I’m happy to share.

I think I’ve managed to trace the problem down to one of the chips so hopefully it won’t be an arm and a leg

Regards

Alan

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You can rip them straight down to mp3 through media player…don’t like iTunes.

If you open media player and click on Organize tab in the top left, then click options, click the rip music tab, then change rip settings format to mp3 they will rip straight into mp3 rather than the default windows audio.

He has replied already…send it over but it might be expensive to repair…not a good start lol…might be sending off for the manual.

Alan

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Cheers, I’ve sent him an email…it’s partially working now which is a bonus, it allows you to make the first number of your selection, but still no backlights or second digit selection.

Yes they’re 70’s boxes, would have liked something earlier but they came up at a good price

Cheers

Alan

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Hi Paul and Happy New Year,

I can see the transformer…buried on the left side, I gave up last night trying to reach it without stripping too much away, they didn’t make them very accessible lol but thanks for the info because I did wonder what the output voltage should be, it has 25v to it but can’t reach the output connections.

I did think about buying a manual for it, my problem is limited time. Work, other projects and hopefully moving house soon is a killer for spare time.

I’m in Macclesfield by the way

Alan

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Hi Scudie,

I’ve had no problems with the software, it worked fine…my only small moan…and it is a small one…the play tickets don’t print out in order of the menu so you end up playing jukebox bingo looking for the matching selection.

My problem is I’ve finally powered the wallbox up and nothing 🙁 got 25v going in but no lights or anything, so on the lookout now for someone who can repair the 506

Alan

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