JQBX is a spotify enhancement that allows for real-time music sharing with friends or public groups. JQBX Be a DJ with JQBX.fm, a Spotify plugin that allows for real-time music sharing. Download it today to start sharing and discovering new music 🎶!
MANAGE YOUR JQBX ROOM
& SPOTIFY PLAYLISTS
Updated: Monday 14th Mar 2020 @ 11:40
THE PROJECTS
• Be your own DJ in a Bot driven ROOM with JQBX (Jukebox), share and discover music with others in real time.
• JQBX integrates with your Spotify Premium music library.
• Run JQBX from a laptop or Android device and drive Spotify playback through your Hifi.
• Display amazing ‘trippy’ visuals that interact with the music by way of Winamp’s Milkdrop visualiser plugin on your monitor or TV.
• Curate playlists and ‘Mix-tapes’ of music for your ROOM using Spotify’s ‘Smarter Playlists’ and other free management tools.
JQBX (JUKEBOX)
Is a music streaming website, created by NYC entrepreneur Jason Zigelbaum and allows Spotify Premium users to listen to music, chat, and vote on the currently playing track in real-time with anyone anywhere. Share being a virtual DJ, and discover new music while listening to other users favorites.
The Room Details & Help Pages provide graphics and detailed explanation of all of the cool features available.
ROOM DETAILS & HELP – https://www.jqbx.fm/help#room
CREATE A ROOM ON JQBX – https://www.jqbx.fm
USER GUIDE – https://www.jqbx.fm/guide
REQUEST A BOT FOR YOUR ROOM – Google Form
BOT GIT HUB – https://github.com/mcicoria/jqbx-bot-plugins
BOT COMMANDS REFERENCE – https://github.com/mcicoria/jqbx-bot-plugins/blob/master/README.md
COMMON BOT COMMANDS
/help – Lists all current Bot commands and options.
/update – Updates the Bot plugins to the latest versions.
/welcome – Welcome message that gets seen by users on entry to a room.
Example:
/welcome Welcome to [YOUR ROOM NAME] – Be polite and have fun ❤.
/welcome off – Removes the welcome message.
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/auto-artist – Toggle automatic artist info for each playing track.
/auto-first – Toggle info about each playing track for JQBX.
/auto-best – Toggle play count, vote tots in rooms for each playing track for JQBX.
/auto-best-gif – Toggle…??
/stats – Link to Last FM stats. [Bot provides a URL link].
/weather – Display the weather. Usage: /weather [city name]
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/config set name [botname]
/up – The Bot will start DJ-ing – (NOTE: Bot will not go ‘up’ if queue is empty).
/down – The Bot will stop DJ-ing.
/ro – Rock out, if your track gets 3, then Bot will add an extra thumb up (DOPE).
/queue – See what the Bot’s next 10 tracks will be.
/queue build – Add tracks to the Bot’s queue.
/queue clear – Clear the tracks in the Bot’s queue.
/queue shuffle – Shuffle the Bot’s queue.
/queue help – Learn how the Bot’s queue is generated, (auto-seeding).
/w @username – Chat in Private in a room.
/you-here @username – Gets last action information for a user in the room.
BOT AUTO-SEEDING
The Bot queue uses the Spotify recommendations API that takes 5 seed tracks.
The seed tracks are obtained from:-
1). The current track or last played track.
2). The top 3 tracks from the last 20.
3). The top track from the last 100.
Track rank is calculated by: upvotes-downvotes + 1.4*(stars-downvotes).
If there is not enough room history, the configured genres will be used as seeds.
LOAD A BOT QUEUE WITH A SPOTIFY PLAYLIST
IMPORTANT
Bot must be DJ-ing, if not, use the /up Bot command to start.
Bot queue can hold a max of 100 tracks.
(even if playlist contains a greater number, only 100 will be loaded).
FORMAT
/queue set
OR
/queue set spotify:user:[SPOTIFY ID]:playlist:[PLAYLIST URI]
NOTE
The PLAYLIST URI can be found from the Spotify Playlist using the Windows desktop App version by:-
Clicking on a Spotify Playlist > More (the three dot menu next to PLAY button) > Share > Copy Spotify URI
Jqbx Bot
PLAY GIF IN THE MESSAGE BOX – (EXAMPLES)
/gif heavy metal metallica
/gif robot dance
/giphy rock band
/giphy festival crowd
(or copy & paste the full path or URL from Google images, or a gif website:-
https://giphy.com | https://tenor.com | http://gfycat.com | https://gifer.com
RUN TV MODE
/tv
The Bot generates a URL link to a GIFTV page, (for viewing in your browser), for the Now Playing track, and displays relevant snippets of information in POP-UPS about the band, with background images, and a mix of related gifs.
Also displays your room title and the current DJ name.
PLAYLISTS
I can’t remember the last time, if ever, that I played all the tracks from an album, LP record or CD in one session.
I much prefer to hear a mix of tracks from different albums, artists and genres, and that’s not just me, so it’s probably why the ‘mix-tape’ was born and why it was used by so many who loved music on the move during those 70’s Sony Walkman and music cassette tape days.
SHUFFLING PLAYLISTS WITH SPOTIFY
If you’re happy to just shuffle your music library, you may find that the selections offered appear not be very random, and too often will repeat the same group of tracks, and it seems like some tracks never get played at all.
If you’re not happy with the situation, and are looking for a way to curate your own Playlists or ‘Mixtapes’ then you could try one of the many great and FREE Playlist Management Tools.
Jqbx Music
FREE SPOTIFY PLAYLIST MANAGEMENT TOOLS
SHOW CURRENT SPOTIFY PLAYING TRACK & HISTORY – http://static.echonest.com/NowPlayingOnSpotify/#
ORGANISE YOUR MUSIC
http://organizeyourmusic.playlistmachinery.com
PLAYLIST MANAGER
http://playlist-manager.com
RANDOMISE SPOTIFY PLAYLISTS
http://textmechanic.com/text-tools/basic-text-tools/sort-text-lines/
TRACK DETALS & VISUALISER
https://descent.live/now
PLAYLIST TOOLS & VISUALISER
https://skiley.net
SPOTIFY CLUB
https://www.spotifyclub.com
CREATING SMARTER PLAYLISTS
One of the best of the playlist managers that I recently discovered, but has been around for a few years, is Smarter Playlists, a FREE web based tool, and the brain child of @Plamere who works at Spotify Labs and has produced lots of useful and fun playlist managers. No coding experience is required to use them!
References:
1. JQBX website: http://www.thebestagency.com
2. Original concept: Entrepreneur Jason Zigelbaum
3. Tech.Co News: https://tech.co/news/streaming-music-friends-jqbx-2017-07
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