JukeFly Blog

We listen to a lot of Internet radio stations - so we thought wouldn’t it awesome if JukeFly could be a repository of all our favorite radio stations. A few weeks of implementation “fun” later we have streaming radio support. The cool thing is we can use the existing infrastructure to pull up videos, lyrics, artist details etc. for songs playing on the radio - everything you do for your own music collection. Also, if you don’t see your favorite radio station in the pre-populated list - just add it yourself, as long as you know the URL to the playlist file (.pls or .m3u formats).

We have also added a video tab where you can search for music videos on YouTube. Changes to the album art algorithm has improved the retrieval of album art. More importantly, we now have the JukeFly Forum (you can get to it from the top right link) - where you can get answers to most of the issues you might come across while using JukeFly.

We are working on a bunch of new features geared towards hooking up JukeFly with rest of the social web. And the proxy is almost ready to be deployed - I know a lot of people have been waiting “on pins and needles” for that

Thanks for all your feedback and bug reports - we have been incorporating all these as we continue developing new features - so please continue letting us know what you think.

-Dinesh (hmmm which radio station do I listen to now :))

We just deployed a release with a bunch of new features -

• YouTube videos
• Song lyrics
• Artist details
• Last.fm scrobbling support (accessible through the Profile tab),
• News tab that shows the latest music-related news from Billboard.

You can find videos, lyrics and artist details on the song details panel in the lower right corner when playing a song.

There are also some fixes and the much requested “Forgot Password” form. Its been sometime since we last had a major release, and we are real excited about these cool new features :). We are already working on the next set of features/bug fixes, so please do send us feedback if you think there is some feature that JukeFly must absolutely have.

As always, suggestions / bug reports / general criticisms are always welcome

We’re still working on our Proxy server implementation.  It is coming along nicely and will solve all of the connection issues some of you are having (about 20% of our users).  Once in place, you should be able to listen to music from any browser regardless of how many firewalls you have or how old your routers are. We’ll keep you updated as this is a hot feature for us to finish.  Other secret things are in the pipeline as well so stay tuned! 

We had a bug that affected about 200 users, mostly Windows Vista users.   The PC Server detected the internal ip address as 127.0.0.1 instead of 192.168.x.x as it should of thus causing UPnP to fail for your router and ultimately the inability to access JukeFly from remote.  If you have a problem accessing your machine from remote, you could try upgrading to the latest version (1021).  You can check your version by hovering your mouse over the JukeFly icon in your system tray (looks like a pair of eyes from the Fly). 

We just deployed support for importing playlists that are in the m3u format. This feature will create a playlist with your songs that are already synced to JukeFly. If the m3u contains songs you have not synced to JukeFly, a list of those will be shown after the import process so that you can then go to the profile tab and add those folders containing the songs that currently are not synced to your account. After you sync songs missing from your m3u, you can then go re-import the m3u again.

Please let us know if you have any issues and as always suggestions are welcome and encouraged

We’re brainstorming on implementing a public API and what features people would want the most.

It could be getting information of what songs a user is playing all the way to streaming the music from your personal collection via an API to any device you want.

Sound interesting? Let us know how you might want to access JukeFly via an API!

You asked for it, so we did it.

We just updated our PC Server software to now include full WMA and FLAC audio support.

This brings the total supported music format list to:

• Mpeg-2 Layer 3 (mp3)
• Vorbis (ogg)
• FLAC (flac, ogg, oga)
• AAC (aac, m4a)
• ALAC (m4a)
• WMA (wma)

* As always, if you see any issues with the newest version of the PC Server software, please let us know as soon as possible.

Some of our most popular feature requests for JukeFly are listed below (not in order).

• Flac audio files
• WMA audio files
• Last.FM integration
• m3u + itunes playlist importing
• Linux PC Server
• OS X PC Server

If you have a feature request thats not listed here, please comment or leave feedback!

Includes the following bug fixes / new features :

Web client -

• Added persistent logins. Now you don’t have to keep logging in to JukeFly every-time you restart the browser, just click the”Remember Me” checkbox.
• Added music / playlist privacy settings in the Profile tab.
• Added countries and states / provinces information to the personal info pane. Everybody can finally tell us where they are from
• Improved friends music feature. Hopefully this will make listening to your friends’ music a lot easier - so invite your friends to JukeFly or start making friends on JukeFly Check the new “Friend Music” sub-tab on the main “Music” tab page.
• Added genres to the songs filter, so now you can search by genre
• Fixed some bugs where the playing song would not go to the next song

PC Server -

• Fixed a parsing issue where invalid characters were not being handled properly by the tag parser, this caused syncing to get stuck.

We are continuing to make improvements to the friends’ music feature. If you have any suggestions please let us know.

We now handle removable disks gracefully now. Previously it would remove your music from the site when you disconnected the disk.

Removable disks must be polled, currently a 3 minute interval to check for changes where fixed disks are monitored in real time for changes. Keep this in mind when modifying your music library on removable disks.

Don’t download the PC Server again.  (Infact, because of a caching bug we are working on, you may get an older version).  — Instead, just go ahead and add your music.  You should see now when you disconnect your removable disk your music list on JukeFly stays intact.

Let us know if you have problems with it by using the Feedback tab.

Thanks!