touch dj - Funworld
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touch dj - Funworld
Update 2013 TOUCH DJ Manual Errors and omissions excepted Copyright © S&T AG – Division funworld Technical Customer Service, pM Effective January 2014 Version: 2.1 Written by Robert Bergmair Index 1. TOUCH DJ – Initial start-up 1.1 1.2 2. Power up and booting SETUP menu SETUP Page 1 Page 1 Page 1 Page 2 2.1 Songs 2.1.1 Supported audio and video formats 2.1.2 Adding new songs 2.1.2.1 Song Upload with USB flash drive 2.1.2.2 Uploading songs from any computer 2.1.3 Imported songs - OPTIONS Page 2 Page 2 Page 3 Page 3 Page 4 Page 6 2.2 Finance 2.2.1 Settings 2.2.1.1 Current bonus system 2.2.1.2 Free play 2.2.1.3 Remote Control Payment (optional) 2.2.1.4 Current Credits 2.2.1.5 Credits: add/ delete 2.2.1.6 Free Credits Page 11 Page 11 Page 11 Page 11 Page 11 Page 12 Page 12 Page 12 2.2.2 Accounting Page 13 2.3 Technics 2.3.1 Speaker volume 2.3.2 Screen 2.3.3 Sensor registration Page 14 Page 14 Page 14 Page 15 2.4 Idle Mode Page 15 2.5 Advertising Page 17 2.6 Networking feature 2.6.1 Overview/ Requirements 2.6.2 Procedure Page 18 Page 18 Page 18 2.7 Other 2.7.1 Language 2.7.2 Mark songs as new 2.7.3 Date/ Time setting 2.7.4 Other settings Page 26 Page 26 Page 26 Page 26 Page 27 Index 3. TouchDJ Player (user interface) 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 4. Sort and show songs by artist Sort and show songs by song title Search for songs NEW SONGS TOP SONGS Buy a song Playlist Add covers to the MP3-tag 4.1 4.2 Adding covers with freeware „mp3tag“ Add covers automatically with freeware „MP3cover“ Page 28 Page 28 Page 28 Page 29 Page 29 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 32 Page 33 5. How to change the players' wallpaper Page 34 6. TOUCH DJ Admin-Tool Page 35 7. Extra / Features Page 36 7.1 7.2 7.3 remote control Note reader Supported Wlan-Sticks Page 36 Page 36 Page 36 1. TOUCH DJ – Initial start-up Requirements for TOUCH DJ UPDATE 2013: - Update 2013 DVD - Dongle for Update 1.1 IMPORTANT: All installed songs will be deleted when updating to Version 2013! Power up and booting Ensure that the TOUCH DJ terminal is connected correctly to the power grid and switch the terminal with the on-off-switch on. Please wait until the terminal has completely booted and the TOUCH DJ logo is shown on the screen. Please note: If there is no SETUP-button available, you need to register a sensor after initial start-up to avoid that any unregistered sensor will have access to the system. 1.2 SETUP menu To arrive at the SETUP menu you need to push the SETUP button or stave the sensor on the marked area. Page 1 2. SETUP SETUP items: - Songs - Finance - Technics - Idle Mode - Advertising - Network - Other Please note: To calibrate the touch screen, please push the SETUP button again or activate the calibration with the sensor ( see point 2.3.2). 2.1 Songs 2.1.1 Supported audio and video formats Audio: „.mp3“, „.ogg“, „.wma“, „.m4a“* Video: „.mpg“, „.mpeg“, „.mkv“, „.avi“, „.wmv“, „.flv“, „.mov“, „.mp4“ To play music videos a second monitor will be needed, otherwise only the music will be played (without showing the video)! (not available on every TOUCH DJ hardware) HINT: Use the freeware “mp3gain“ to unify the volume of the songs. If *.mp3 data have no ID3-Tag the software tries to find out the song title and artist from the data name. Requirements for correct song title and artist from data name: artist – song title.mp3 Additionally the cover can be added to the ID3-Tag. If the software isn´t able to find out a song title and artist, the title will be skipped and cannot be played! Please be sure that before uploading mp3´s, all mp3´s have the correct format! *.m4a files are only working if there is no DRM protection Page 2 2.1.2 Adding new songs To upload new songs you could use an usb flash drive (also with an external usb CD or DVD drive) connected to a free usb port of the TOUCH DJ or with the new amazon S3 cloud function. 2.1.2.1 Song upload with USB flash drive : Plug in the usb flash drive and wait until the flash drive is correctly connected. If the usb flash drive will not be found please push on “search again”. Now choose the correct drive and the correct folder with the songs which should be uploaded to the TOUCH DJ´s harddisk and start copying by pushing on “import songs”. Pushing “Cancel” brings you back to the SETUP. After importing confirm with “done”. Page 3 2.1.2.2 Uploading songs from any computer with existing internet connection Requirements: To upload songs via any computer with internet connection a correct network setting of the TOUCH DJ and an amazon S3 account (from S&T AG Division Funworld) is required. If hard disk space is 500 MB or lower than uploading new songs is not possible! Recommended freeware program is “CloudBerry Explorer” (amazon s3 version). Download link of the “CloudBerry Explorer”: www.cloudberrylab.com After downloading and installing the program correctly, the account information has to be entered. Creating an account: File Amazon S3 Accounts Add Please insert a name of your account under “display name” e.g. “Touch DJ” Please insert the received “access key” and “secret key” in the correct line. Confirm with OK. Page 4 Under „Source“ you can find the created account now and the CloudBerry Explorer will connect automatically. To start with uploading you have to enter the operator access data. IMPORTANT: Please enter the operator access data only in lower case letters! Finally you have to search for the songs on the left side oft he CloudBerry Explorer and copy them directly with drag and drop to the cloud on the right side. Important: Songs have to be in folders without subfolders Page 5 2.1.3 Imported songs - OPTIONS After importing new songs you can find under register “Songs” on the upper left side how much space is left and how many songs are stored on the hard disk. Searching for songs: With the „Artists > Songs“ –button you can change whether you are searching for the artist or for the song. By pushing a letter of the alphanumeric buttons the artist or the name of the song beginning with the chosen letter will be shown. For example: If “Artists > Songs” is chosen and you push the A button, all artists beginning with A will be shown. If “Songs > Artists” is chosen and you push the A button, all songs beginning with A will be shown. Mark songs as new: With this drop down menu you can change the status of a song if it´s marked with “NEW” or not! Possible settings: - automatic (see 2.3.6) - always - never Standard setting for new imported songs is always „automatic“ which means that songs are marked as “NEW” for a specified time (see 2.3.6). Page 6 Songs in Idle mode: The idle mode setting defines whether a song is used in idle mode or not, if for a specified time no bought song is been played. There are 3 possibilities to activate or deactivate songs in idle mode: 1. Checkbox in dice column: If the box for idle mode for a song is checked the song will be played in idle mode according to the idle mode setting (see 2.4). If the box is unchecked the song will not be played in idle mode. 2. Drop-down-menu „Idle mode usage“ This setting is equal to the checkbox in dice column under point 1. Possibilities: - allowed (see possible settings 2.4) - forbidden Page 7 3. „Idle mode„ setting added in file name If the file name of an audio file contains the string [NI], the “Never Idle” function is automatically activated, i.e. the song will not be played in idle mode. song1[NI].mp3 Although the file name contains the “Never Idle” string this function can be changed manually (see 2.1.3) Page 8 Never delete: If this function is activated the selected file remains on the TOUCH DJ hard disk when “Delete Old Songs” is pressed. There are 3 options to activate or deactivate the „Never Delete“ function: 1. Checkbox in rubber column If the checkbox of a song in the rubber column is checked the “Never Delete” function is activated and cannot be deleted with the “Delete Old Songs” function. If the song should be deleted although the “Never Delete” function is activated, the song has to be deleteted manually with the “Delete” button. 2. „Never Delete“ drop-down menu This setting corresponds to the rubber checkbox of a song. YES = rubber checkbox is checked NO = rubber checkbox is not checked Page 9 3. „Never Delete “ setting added in file name If the file name of an audio file contains the string [ND], the “Never Delete” function is automatically activated, i.e. the song will not be deleted if “Delete Old Songs” is pressed. song1[ND].mp3 This function corresponds to option 1 (rubber checkbox) and 2 (drop-down menu)! Adding “Idle Mode“+ “Never Delete“-function string to file name: The file name could contain the “Idle Mode“ string “[NI]” as well as the “Never Delete” string “[ND]”! song1[NI][ND].mp3 Song options: delete, listen, cover If a cover is saved in the ID3-Tag of an audio file it would be shown in the box next to the delete and listen buttons. “Delete” will remove the song from the TOUCH DJ hard disk. Shows cover, If saved in ID3-Tag “Listen” will play the song. Hint: See point 4 for a complete manual for adding covers to a song. Page 10 2.2 Finance 2.2.1 Settings 2.2.1.1 Current Bonus System - EURO - TOKEN This drop-down menu sets the bonus regulation for EURO and TOKEN slot. 2.2.1.2 Free play If “Free play“ is activated (Yes) very song can be chosen for free without payment. 2.2.1.3 Remote Control Payment (optional) If a numerical value is set, e.g. 30, it´s possible to add exactly 30 credits with the remote control until all 30 credits are exhausted. Page 11 2.2.1.4 Current Credits Currently available credits on the TOUCH DJ terminal. 2.2.1.5 Credits: add / delete Credits can be added in the following steps: +1 or +10 The “Delete Credits” button deletes all currently available credits from the TOUCH DJ terminal. 2.2.1.6 Free Credits This setting specifies the idle time in minutes when no song has been bought until a free credit is added. Time until free credit can be set with the buttons 10 and +10. Minimum idle time is 10 min, maximum 720 min. Until 120 min time increases in 10 min steps, over 120 min it increases in 30 min steps. If “never” is set the first time after pressing +10 is 30 min. If you want less time than 30 min press the -10 button to reach 20 or 10 min. Free credit requirements: Idle time is over, without paying a new song No credits currently available A free credit in the accounting is shown as “idle credit”. Page 12 2.2.2 Accounting Under accounting you can render the account. Press “settle account now” to cash up. After that the shaded in green line turns into white. Pressing the “delete” button clears the whole list. Credits which were added with remote control are listed under “Remote Credit”. Free credits (2.2.1.6) are listed under “Idle Credit”. Page 13 2.3 Technics 2.3.1 Speaker Volume The speaker volume can be changed by scrolling the controller to the left (quieter) or to the right (louder). Crossfade: If “Crossfade” is activated (2 to 15 seconds) songs are going to be quieter to the end and are going to get louder at the beginning. So there is no abrupt ending or beginning of songs. Test Audio: Audio output can be tested. Test Video: Video output can be tested (only if 2 screens are available) 2.3.2 Screen Choose or change the resolution of the second screen if available. Additionally you can calibrate the touchscreen. Hint: Touchscreen calibration is also with Setup button and sensor viable. Page 14 2.3.3 Sensor registration Instead of the red setup button a sensor can be used. For sensor use a special hardware has to be connected to the TOUCH DJ computer box. Press “Add Sensor” and register a sensor within 10 seconds, otherwise the process will be aborted. By pressing “Delete Sensors” existing sensors can be deleted. HINT: If there is no setup button available you need to register a sensor at the first start-up, otherwise every unregistered sensor has access to the system! 2.4 Idle Mode Idle mode options if „Idle Mode“ (songs are automatically playing while no bought song is been played) is activated. Paus Pause between songs: Setting if there should be a pause between 2 songs. Playback of frequently requested songs: This option defines if frequently requested songs are played in idle mode or not. Settings from “never”, “every song” to “every tenth song” are possible. . Page 15 Playback of newly added songs: This drop-down menu defines if newly added songs should be played in idle mode or not. Settings from “no restriction”, “don´t play in the first week” up to “don´t play in the first 8 weeks”. Reduce volume: This option sets the speaker volume in idle mode ensuing from the volume in normal playback mode. Settings from 100% volume of normal playback mode to 10% volume of normal playback mode are adjustable. Page 16 2.5 Advertising Advertising in form of pictures can be imported. Importing pictures for advertising is similar to importing songs. Supported formats: “.jpg“, “.png“, “.bmp“ Advertising will be shown on both screens (if available) alternating to song covers, in normal playback mode as well as in idle mode! The „Display Time“ drop-down menu sets the time of advertising from 0 seconds (advertising is deactivated) up to 60 seconds. Each advertising can be set separately! Page 17 2.6 Networking feature 2.6.1 Overview/ Requirements The networking feature provides an easy way of adding and updating songs on TouchDJ 2013 machines remotely and to monitor cashbox and statistics information’s online. There is no need for being physically present in front of the machine anymore. Once an operator has gone through the networking setup wizard, all features described below are available immediately. The machine requires a working internet connection. At first you need the freeware “CloudBerry Explorer” for remote control correctly installed. Secondly the correct login data have to be entered. Requirements: • The terminal has to be connected to the internet via lan cable (RJ45) or WIFI. • A TouchDJ 2013 Dongle has to be connected to the terminal • Existing operator account with Amazon S3 account information 2.6.2 Procedure If your machine was not registered previously, your network tab will look like the picture on the right side. You will need login information (username and password) for an valid operator that matches your machine’s dongle country in order to proceed with the first step of the registration process. Press the button labeled ‘Next’ to start the machine registration wizard. Page 18 Choosing connection: To connect the TOUCH DJ to the internet you have to choose your available internet connection. LAN or WIFI connection can be chosen. LAN connection DHCP or Manual selection of the IP address If DHCP is activated an IP address and DNS will be obtained automatically. If you want to enter IP address manually uncheck DHCP. Page 19 WLAN connection Please see 7.3 to see a list of all supported Wlan-Sticks! DHCP or manual selection of the IP address If DHCP is activated an IP address and DNS will be obtained automatically. If you want to enter IP address manually uncheck DHCP. Choose your network you want to connect to and enter, if necesarry, the WIFI code. Push save and connect to finish connecting process. Page 20 If the connecting process was sucessfull it should look like the pictures on the right. Page 21 On this screen you have to enter the username and password of an operator account. Those login credentials can be obtained by your Funworld sales partner. After typing in username and password the machines does an online verification check to ensure that the entered credentials are valid. On succeed you will see the location that the machine was previously assigned to, otherwise a list of previously created locations that are available for assigning to your terminal. Possible errors you might receive during the login: • Could not find login You’ve probably mistyped either the username or the password, please enter them again. Both are case insensitive, so you don’t have to care if you use capital letters or not. • Login has been deactivated For some reason the used account has been deactivated by the Funworld personal. Please contact your Funworld sales partner to get more information’s • Operator´s country does not match dongle country This error will occur if you try to register a terminal with a hardware dongle which does not match the operator’s login country or vice versa. Ensure that you are using the correct operator login credentials. • The used operator has no assigned amazon S3 account The used operator has not assigned an amazon s3 cloud drive account. Please contact your Funworld sales partner or our technical support. Page 22 Every machine has to be assigned to a location. On this screen you see a list of previously created locations. You may select an already existing location in case that you have more than one terminal or replaced an existing machine on this location. You can also create a new location. Page 23 Group selection: On this screen you decide which groups / folders should be monitored and downloaded to the terminal. If you select ‘Always download everything’, the machine will download all mp3’s that can be found on the cloud store, including groups and folders which are added later. If you select specific groups, only the selected ones will be monitored and downloaded. Files which have changed since the last synchronization will be downloaded again. For an overview of supported formats please see 2.1.1. IMPORTANT: Songs have to be in folders to get imported. Subfolders will be ignored and not shown. Only songs from the cloud will be imported. If a song is deleted from the cloud it will not be deleted automatically from the TOUCH DJ terminal. Automatic synchronization every 30 minutes! Deleting songs from the TOUCH DJ terminal is shown under 2.3.1. By pressing the ‘Next’ button, the registration process is completed and the overview page is shown. Page 24 After exiting the setup environment, the machine will immediately starts to synchronize the cloud drive content. All mp3’s that have been found will be added to the machines songs library. For best results the mp3’s should contain a fully filled out ID3 tag, containing at least the artist and song name. Otherwise the library will try to guess the artist and song name by analyzing the filename of the mp3. For best results the filename should look something like this: <Artist> – <Song>.mp3 Examples: Abba – Dancing Queen.mp3 Daft Punk – Get Lucky.mp3 Joe Cocker – Unchain My Heart.mp3 The machine will also upload the machine’s song statistics. The excel file can be found in the statistics folder on the cloud drive, named with the machines serial number. The finance account history is also uploaded and can be viewed using the online TouchDJ administration tool. Information and diagnostics: By pressing the IPConfig button, the terminal lists a detailed, technical report about the network hardware, the assigned IP address. This is useful for analysis and diagnostic purposes and for checking the internet connectivity. The ‘Ping Google’ button simply displays the result of a ping to www.google.com. The “Trace” button is also for testing the connection and shows the route of IPs to google.at. Page 25 2.7 Other • • • • Language Mark songs as new Date/ Time Other settings 2.7.1 Language Language can be changed for setup and player menu. Changes will be only taken over after leaving the setup menu. 2.7.2 Mark songs as new Marking songs as new (2.1.3) can be set automatically from “never“, “in the first week“ to in “the first 8 weeks“. Songs which are marked as new are shown with a “NEW SONGS” sign in the song overview screen. 2.7.3 Date/ Time setting Date and time can be set but only if the TOUCH DJ terminal is not connected to the network/ internet. Page 26 2.7.4 Other settings - search for new TOUCH DJ software - Excel Export - Reset network settings - Reset factory defaults - Rest Song Statistics Search for new TOUCH DJ Software: Go to ftp.funworld.com/touchdj/update/ to look for new TOUCH DJ software (zip or iso file) New software can be installed onto the TOUCH DJ terminal with an usb flash drive (zip-file) or with an external dvd drive (burn iso-file onto dvd). If new software was found and downloaded, please connect a usb flash drive to the TOUCH DJ terminal and press “Search for new TOUCH DJ Software”. Choose the correct drive with iso file or external dvd drive and start the update process. IMPORTANT: If you update sofware with dvd all installed songs will be deleted! Excel Export: Complete song list, song statistics (frequency of bought songs, etc.) can be exported to an usb flash drive in excel format. Reset network settings: Only network settings will be reseted without losing any data (songs, advertising, etc.) Reset factory defaults: Hint: All songs, advertising, etc. will be deleted! Reset Song Statistics: All statistics according to songs will be reseted. Page 27 3. TOUCH DJ Player 3.1 Sort and show songs by artist By pressing „Artists“ songs are sorted by artists. Choose a letter on the right side to get the artists with chosen first letter. By pressing the blue arrows you will swap to the next or previous page of artists in alphabetic order. INFO: 14 artists maximum are shown per page whether there are more or less artists with the chosen letter. If there are only 10 artists with the chosen letter the last 4 artists have the following letter (alphabetic order). 3.2 Sort and show songs by song title By pressing „Songs“ songs are sorted by song title. Choose a letter on the right side to get the songs with chosen first letter. By pressing the blue arrows you will swap to the next or previous page of artists in alphabetic order. INFO: 14 songs maximum are shown per page whether there are more or less song titles with the chosen letter. If there are only 10 songs with the chosen letter the last 4 song titles have the following letter (alphabetic order). Page 28 3.3 Search for songs Search for artist or song title by pressing letters on the virtual keyboard. It´s possible to enter at least one letter to contain search result or enter complete artist names and song titles. 3.4 NEW SONGS Under “NEW SONGS” all songs which were imported in the last weeks are listed, according to the setting of point 2.6.2. 3.5 TOP SONGS Under “TOP SONGS” the most wanted and bought songs (TOP 100) of the last 4 weeks are listed. Page 29 3.6 Buy a song How to buy a song? Search for the song you want. Then Buy the song by pressing “buy” (or resign by pressing “back”). Song will be played. If there are no credits available the process will be aborted! If there was at least one credit available the process is finished and the song will be played according to the beginning time shown on the screen. Page 30 3.7 Playlist If a song was bought during another song is still playing or if there are other songs waiting in the playlist all songs will be showed in a black box (playlist). The playlist contains artist, song title and beginning time of the songs in minutes. The playlist will be shown for 10 seconds by touching onto the current song. TOUCH anywhere on the screen to close playlist. . The playlist only shows the first 8 songs, songs which will be played later are not listed. Page 31 4. Add covers to the MP3-Tag 4.1 Adding covers with freeware „mp3tag“ To add a cover to mp3 file a MP3-Tag is necessary, which contains of information from the artist, song title. There are many programs available to add or change a cover of an mp3 file. An easy way to change the MP3-Tag is the freeware “mp3tag”. Download link: http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html Download the setup.exe and follow the installation steps. Start the program, choose “File”, “Change Directory” and search for the files to add covers. Procedure: 1. Select song 2. Search for covers at http://discogs.com or http://www.amazon.com, etc. 3. Click the cover you zoom it 4. Add the cover with „drag and drop“ into the white box with the cd-symbol of the selected song. 5. Click „Save“ to save the MP3-Tag to the mp3 file. Page 32 4.2 Add covers automatically with freeware „MP3Cover“ The freeware „mp3cover“ automatically adds covers to the MP3-Tag. Download link: http://mp3cover.hccl.de in german available) (only Just choose a directory with mp3 files and drag it into the white window of the program. Start the cover search by clicking on “Coversuche starten”. Every mp3 file will be checked and the cover will be saved to the MP3-Tag automatically. If the mp3 file has no ID3-Tag the program tries to find out the artist and song title from the file name (artist-song title.mp3) and creates a MP3Tag with all the information it has found (artist, song-title, cover). Requirements: Mp3 file should look like this: artist – song-titlel.mp3 Important: Blank between artist and “-“ , blank „-“ and song title If the wrong cover is been found it could be that there are more albums with this song included available. In that case please add the cover manually with the program “mp3tag”. Page 33 5. How to change the players' wallpaper To change the wallpaper of TOUCH DJ player a internet connection and access to the amazon S3 cloud is required. It´s possible to change the wallpaper for all connected machines as well as different wallpapers for each machine. Create a new folder named „BackgroundImage“ in the root directory. Wallpapers for all connected machines: Save the wallpaper as „CommonBackground.jpg/ .png oder .bmp“ for all machines. Wallpaper for only one machine: Save the wallpaper as the machines mac address and it will only be shown on this machine according to the mac address. If wallpapers will be deleted from the cloud the default wallpaper will be shown. Page 34 6. TOUCH DJ Admin-Tool To work with the TOUCH DJ Admin-Tool you will need access data (username, password). Ask your S&T AG Division Funworld distributor to get access data. Login at http://admin.touchdj.eu Following features are available after doubleclick on one of your machines: Overview: Information of machine will be shown. Remote Setup: Touchscreen calibration of the machine can be started by clicking the launch button. Important: Machine must be in player mode (not in setup mode) Accounting: Current accounting will be shown. Seite 35 7. EXTRA / FEATURES 7.1 Remote control Available features with remote control: - Add credits( has to activated in SETUP– via STOP button; see 2.2.1.3) - Change speaker volume - Next song - Pause - Restart song At first start of the remote control the transmitter has to be connected to a free usb port of the computer box. After that the transmitter and receiver have to be synchronized with the “LINK” button! 7.2 Note reader The USB note reader is available from1.8.9. and higher. A complete reinstallation of the software (DVD) is necessary! 7.3 Supported Wlan-Sticks Netgear wg 111 Netgear wg 111v2 Netgear wg 111v3 Netgear wg 121 Surecom EP-9001-GP Linkssys wireless-g Dlink dwl-122 Netgear WN111v2 Netgear WNA1100 TP-Link TL-WN722N Page 36