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This view contains all the Jajuk preferences. You will have to press the Apply button in the lower part of the view to actually apply changes. You can reset everything to the 'factory' defaults by clicking on the restore defaults button (the changes are then applied).
Security notice: all passwords set here (proxy password, Last.FM password...) are *not* stored in clear in the jajuk configuration files but obfuscated.
Note that few hardly used options are not accessible using the graphical interface but can be set by editing the configuration file.
Options tab
This tab contains some general options:
- Language [default=your system locale if supported or English otherwise]: Interface language. Needs a restart to be taken into account.
- Only show available tracks [default=false]: If checked, Jajuk hides all items located on unmounted devices.
- Push on selection [default=false]: If checked, Jajuk default behavior when double-clicking on a track or when selecting an item in instant search box is to push it into the queue, not to play it.
- Push on drop [default=false]: If checked, Jajuk default behavior when drag and dropping a track is to push it into the queue, not to play it.
- Enable Hotkeys[Windows only] [default=false]: If set, keystrokes (see list in keys shortcuts) like F8 work even when jajuk window has not the focus.
- Use parent directory as album name [default=true]: If the album tag is not available, take parent directory name as album name.
- Drop played tracks from queue [default=false]: If set, the view queue queue view only contains current and remaining tracks, not previously played ones.
Modes tab
This tab contains player engine preferences:
- Intro begin position (%) [default=0]: For intro mode, beginning track position in percent.
- Intro length (sec) [default=20]: For intro mode, track length in seconds.
- Cross-fade duration [default=5]: Cross-fade duration in seconds between two tracks. Zero means no cross-fade.
- Cross fade duration (seconds) [default=10]: Define cross fade between two tracks. If mplayer is not available, the cross fade is not always honored
- Best of playlist size [default=20]: Size of the bestof smart playlist (see using playlists)
- Time limit of novelties (days) [default=30]: After this number of day since first refresh, the tracks are no more novelties and will not be chosen any more by the novelties function (Command view).
- Number of visible planned tracks [default=10]: In Playlist editor view, number of visible planned tracks (see view playlist editor).
- Use Audio normalization [default=false]: Enables mplayer normalization to avoid big gain differences between tracks.
GUI tab
- Show album popups [default=true] : Should Jajuk show popups on thumbs (mainly in view catalog and view suggestions)
- Show Systray [default=true] : Enables Jajuk systray.
- Minimize to tray [default=false] : If set, jajuk main window will be shown in Jajuk systray only when minimized, no more in taskbar.
- Font size [default=12]: font size used mainly in tree and table views
- Track change notification [default=None]: Select the type of notification at track change (a toast is a notification popup that appears briefly on the screen and disappears by itself).
- Theme [default=Nebula]: Color theme to use
- Perspective bar icons size [Default=32 pixels, from 16 to 56 pixels]: set here the size of the perspective chooser buttons on the left. Under 32 pixels, the text under buttons is no more displayed.
- Catalog view preferences
- 'Catalog view page size [default=200]: set here the number of albums by page in the view catalog. Zero means all in one
- The Refresh thumbnails button deletes all thumbnails (any size) so they will be rebuilt at next display.
Startup tab
This tab is used to select Jajuk startup mode [default=Last one at last position]:
- Nothing: no track at all is launched at startup.
- Last one from beginning: last track is fully played.
- Last one at last position: last track is launched at position you stopped it when exiting Jajuk.
- Shuffle track: A shuffle track from the entire collection.
- Best of track: A track from your best of..
- Novelties: A track from your novelties.
- Track/radio: choose a track or a webradio by making a search in the text field.
Patterns tab
This tab is used to fine tune several patterns
- File Organizer : set pattern used when using the files organizer.
- Animation view : set text pattern of view animation (variables are the same that Organizer's pattern)
- Frame title : set text pattern of Jajuk main window.
- Notification pattern : This pattern set the text to be displayed by notifiers at track change.
- Information pattern : This pattern set the text to be displayed in the information view (lower part of the screen).
History/Ratings tab
See also Jajuk rating system.
- History duration [default=-1]: Number of days you want to keep history. -1: infinite, 0: no history.
- Clear History button: Clears the history bar.
- Reset ratings button: Reset all tracks ratings to zero.
- Reset preferences button: Reset user-defined preferences.
Last.FM tab
- Enable Last.FM information queries: Allow jajuk to make queries to Last.FM web services in order to display various information on playing artist like similar artists and others albms in the view suggestions
- Scrobble my listening: Allow Jajuk to send information on titles you listen to Last.FM website in order to feed your Last.FM profile (check http://last.fm website). [since 1.9] Jajuk caches scrobbles when offline and submit them back at next online jajuk session startup.
- Last.FM user name: Last.FM login name you used when creating your Last.FM profile
- Last.FM password: Last.FM password you used when creating your Last.FM profile
Covers tab
This tab is used to tune covers (see view_cover).
- Shuffle cover [default=false] : Shuffle covers when playing a new album.
- Grab covers online [default=true] : Grab remote covers from the Web.
- Mirrow covers [default=true] : If checked, the cover will be tilted and mirrowed.
- Save covers Windows Explorer friendly [default=false] : Save downloaded covers as folder.jpg/png/... so that the windows explorer uses them as directory icon.
- Cover size [default=medium or large] : Cover size filter for online searches
- Default cover file names [default=front;cover;folder;back;jajuk] : Jajuk takes as default covers files which name contains this text (without extension). Several values separated by ';' can be provided. Example : "Folder;front".
Confirmations tab
This tab is used to tune confirmations.
- Before physically deleting a file [default=true]: Ask before physically and definitively deleting a file.
- Before exiting Jajuk [default=false]: Ask before quitting Jajuk.
- Before removing a device [default=true]: Ask before removing a device. No data will be deleted on your disk but the device will be deleted from the Jajuk database.
- Before physically deleting a cover [default=true]: Ask before physically and definitively deleting a cover (image file).
- Before clearing history [default=true]: Ask before clearing history in history bar.
- Before reseting ratings [default=true]: Ask before reseting all tracks ratings to zero.
- Before organizing files [default=true]: Ask before organizing files (see Files organizer)
Network tab
This tab is used to tune network options (useful if used inside a corporate network for example)
- Disable any Internet access from Jajuk : disables any Internet access from Jajuk (LastFM, covers or lyrics download...).
- Connection timeout in seconds [default=10]: Timeout in seconds when establishing a connection to a server
- Select your HTTP proxy [Default: no proxy] : No proxy HTTP proxy or SOCKS proxy
- Proxy host name [default=proxy, only if Use a HTTP proxy is set]: Proxy host name or IP address.
- Proxy port [default=3128 (sometimes 8080 for some proxies), only if Use a HTTP proxy is set]: Proxy port
- Proxy user name [no default]: Proxy user name
- Proxy password [no default]: Proxy password
Advanced tab
This tab is used to tune some Jajuk advanced parameters
- Backup size (MB) [default=40MB, only if Backup collection file option is set]: Maximum backup size of all collection file backups (collection_<date>.xml files in jajuk configuration directory).
- Collection charset [default=UTF-8]: Collection charset. UTF-16 is optimized for Asian languages and UTF-8 is optimized for European languages.
- Log level [default=Warning in normal mode, debug in debug mode (-debug)]: Set the verbosity of logs in your {Jajuk repository}/jajuk.log file. Please set to Debug before sending us a bug.
- Mplayer path [default=none]: force mplayer path
- Mplayer arguments [default=none]: Additional MPlayer arguments (see mplayer documentation for details):
- to set your sound server: '-ao esd', '-ao arts'
- to have only the sound of video: '-novideo'
- to configure a sound equalizer '-af equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:-1:-1:-1:-1:-1'
- for audio normalization use '-af volnorm'
- Environment variables [default=nonel]: Set environment variables used by the audio player (ARTS_SERVER under KDE or ESPEAKER under Gnome for ie). Format: var1=xx var2=yyy...
- Jajuk configuration directory [default=user home directory]: Set the directory containing Jajuk configuration and collection library. This directory contains one or more Jajuk repository (.jajuk directories, one for each test release and one single for final release). Note that you can also force this path from the command line, see Special_options#Options_available_from_CLI.
- Explorer executable path : Set path to the program handling 'Open in Explorer' feature (in Files tree view for instance). Note that in most environments, proper path is token by default and you don't need to edit this option. XFCE Example :
/usr/bin/thunar
- Use Regexp in filters [default=false]: Use regexp strings like .*foo.* in the filter field of the Table view.
- Check Jajuk updates [default=true]: Allow Jajuk at every startup to check on the jajuk website if a new release becomes available (can be forced manually using the Help menu-> check for updates)
- Discovery date = file date [default=false]: If checked, jajuk use the file date (in the operating system meaning) as discovery date, not the current date. This date is used for novelties features or for statistics.
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