Just to prove I am taking this plugin seriously again (for now), here's an update on the status of things.
I have resumed development of the new version of Jukebox that I had started in March 2010. When the Mac OS update last summer broke everything, I stopped. The three main new features are:
- Event-based triggers to cause a track or a playlist (see below) to play during an event - for now, for a person who joins the server or for everyone during a map change. The tracks for these events are specially selected as candidates to be played using a new flagging system available for each track.
- An in-game feature-rich playlist system where users can build, edit and save their own playlists for later use. Admins can also build playlists and then nominate them to a public playlist library. I added this in response to people playing certain songs in order to compliment a certain mood or tone they want to set themselves up for. I figure people will create playlists like "fight songs" and "just chillin" and so on.
- A number of improvements to the website side of things, including many bug fixes, clearer interface design and new features to accommodate the above additions. This does NOT include appropriate of the HTML code for use with CSS. This is largely because I wrote most of the improvements a year ago when I knew nothing about CSS - now I know just enough to get by. ;) CSS support will come later.
So anyway, all three of these are mostly ready. The events system, the last of the three to finish, was successfully tested for the first time yesterday so now I'm in the polishing up stage before release. Don't expect a release very soon, though - my work still keeps me much more busy than I was a year ago so progress will be slow, but there will be progress.
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