About the jükbox

What is the jükbox?

How do I work the the jükbox?

Well, the first step is to decide what you want to hear.



Listen

If you want to listen to one song at a time, click "listen' next to the title you want to hear. This will stream an MP3 file to your computer. You will need a MP3 Player to make this work.


Filter By:

With the filters at the top of the page, you can filter the current collection of songs by indicating your criteria. For example, if you only wanted to listen to the Top 5 songs, you would select Top 5 from the Rank filter and then press Go. The page now only lists songs that match your filtering criteria. You can combine several filters together to obtain even narrower results.


Hear Mix

Or "Hear This Mix." In addition to displaying filtered results on the page, the jükbox also automatically creates a unique playlist with the exact same songs. Neat-o. To hear the current playlist, click on this link -- the playlist will load the songs into your MP3 player.


Sort Bar

Each underscored link in the Sort Bar allows you to sort the song results. For example, if you wanted to sort the songs in alphabetical order by title, you would click on the Title link in the Sort Bar. Notice that a silver box appears to indicate the sort direction. The up arrow indicates an Ascending order (i.e. A-Z), while the down arrow indicated a Descending sort order (i.e. Z-A).


Rank

Sorting by Rank is a quick way to get to the best music quickly. For example, choosing the Top 5 selection (and clicking the Go button) will return a list of the top 5 songs.


Album

There are 29 music albums in total. With this filter, you can listen to the music in traditional album format.


Track

The Track number is the song's order number on the album from which is came.


Time

Time is the length of the song in M:SS format.


Year

Year is the year the song was composed.


Genre

There are 31 genres of music. Most of them are real. Some I made up.


Instruments

There are 4 types of songs:

1. Ensemble - These songs were composed on a keyboard using multiple voices, drums, etc.
2. With Guitar - These ensemble songs also include a guitar part.
3. Guitar Only - There are no other instruments besides guitar.
4. Piano Only - These tracks use a solo acoutic piano.

Results

Your results pages can return either 10 songs per page or 25 per page.


Songs Found

This number indicates how many songs match your filtering criteria.


Next and Previous

In situations where all of the results can't be displayed on a single page, the results are divided into multiple pages that you can leaf through.

Questions and Answers

Do I need a fast connection to the Internet?

Yes. Your connection must be capable of downloading at least 128Kb per second. Office networks and cable modems will work great. 56K dial-up modems, unfortunately, won't work.

What is MP3? Where can I get an MP3 player?

MP3's are music files. You can listen to them with an MP3 player such as Winamp or iTunes.

What is a playlist?

A playlist is a list of songs, used by audio music players so that they know which order to play your songs.

Hey, iTunes will only play the first song in your M3U playlists!

Yes, there does seem to be a problem with how iTunes handles M3U files. Luckily, a fix exists. You may first need to right-click save the M3U file to your desktop and then double-click it in order to load the playlist into iTunes.

Is this music free?

Yes, you are able to stream a reasonable amount of this music for your personal use. These works are licensed by Rob Condit under a Creative Commons License.



Can I buy this music?

Yes. CD-quality, err, CD's are available. They are recorded using a higher sound quality than the MP3's available in the online jükbox (128Kb quality), which are optimized for speed. Send inquiries via the grüv homepage.

Can I download this music directly?

Yes, if you insist.

Can I appropriate your music or make money off of your work?

No, but thanks for asking.

How is jükbox really spelled?

jükbox is spelled all-lowercase and with an umlaut. In email addresses and web paths, it is spelled without the umlaut.

Why do you spell it that way?

It's a grüv thing.