Internet jukeboxes

[mickeycrimm]

Internet juke boxes in the bars. Pretty wide range of music. Entire catalogues of artists. So I could play good songs that weren't so famous. It was great. Here's one by Creedence I bet you never heard:

[The Boz]

Internet juke boxes in the bars. Pretty wide range of music. Entire catalogues of artists. So I could play good songs that weren't so famous. It was great.

The money those things brought in for me over the years was amazing. Years back they added an app so people could play from their phone using a credit card. Which eliminated the need for customers to have cash and encouraged people to spend more buying credits. And customers could play songs anonymously to not be judged on their selections.

One nice feature was the ability to pay extra credits to skip others songs so your selection plays next. At times we would use our free credits given as an operator to play a couple shit songs like Tiny Dancer that killed the mood so naturally others would spend money to bypass the songs to hear better choices.

We also had a kill button behind the bar to cancel any song playing. Used sparingly but at times an inappropriate song, usually a Rap song with explicit lyrics about bitches and ho’s sucking cock, was playing at a time when families were still in the restaurant area of the bar.

They worked on a 50/50 split so there was no expense for the bar and was easy cash weekly.

[accountinquestion]

Fuck it, I'll put in a dollar for The Boz.



I'll tell you why this song means so much to me. For many many years I thought he was saying Hold me closer Tony Danza. Like it was some tribute to late night reruns or some shit. Yep, thats how much it means to me.

For you, Boz.

[AxelWolf]

Fuck it, I'll put in a dollar for The Boz.



I'll tell you why this song means so much to me. For many many years I thought he was saying Hold me closer Tony Danza. Like it was some tribute to late night reruns or some shit. Yep, thats how much it means to me.

For you, Boz.

[mickeycrimm]

Internet juke boxes in the bars. Pretty wide range of music. Entire catalogues of artists. So I could play good songs that weren't so famous. It was great.

The money those things brought in for me over the years was amazing. Years back they added an app so people could play from their phone using a credit card. Which eliminated the need for customers to have cash and encouraged people to spend more buying credits. And customers could play songs anonymously to not be judged on their selections.

One nice feature was the ability to pay extra credits to skip others songs so your selection plays next. At times we would use our free credits given as an operator to play a couple shit songs like Tiny Dancer that killed the mood so naturally others would spend money to bypass the songs to hear better choices.

We also had a kill button behind the bar to cancel any song playing. Used sparingly but at times an inappropriate song, usually a Rap song with explicit lyrics about bitches and ho’s sucking cock, was playing at a time when families were still in the restaurant area of the bar.

They worked on a 50/50 split so there was no expense for the bar and was easy cash weekly.

I talked the owner of the bar next door to where I lived into putting in the internet jukebox. I had already been told they were big money makers compared to the old jukeboxes. The manager of the bar couldn't convince the owner so I cornered the owner one day and told her she was losing money by not doing it. She put it in.

It took in so much money they had to put a second bill acceptor on it.

This was a rough bar and people would get fighting mad if you bumped their music so they instituted a rule against it. Put a sign above the jukebox.

I remember one night some guy played a 47 minute song....then told me about it when it started. It was mostly birds chirping. After about 20 minutes people were starting to look around like WTF? Another 5 minutes everyone was screaming for the bartender to hit the reject button. It was funny as hell.

I vaguely remember counting down the Rolling Stones catalog. I think it was like 500 songs.

[Ozzy]

Internet juke boxes in the bars. Pretty wide range of music. Entire catalogues of artists. So I could play good songs that weren't so famous. It was great.

The money those things brought in for me over the years was amazing. Years back they added an app so people could play from their phone using a credit card. Which eliminated the need for customers to have cash and encouraged people to spend more buying credits. And customers could play songs anonymously to not be judged on their selections.

One nice feature was the ability to pay extra credits to skip others songs so your selection plays next. At times we would use our free credits given as an operator to play a couple shit songs like Tiny Dancer that killed the mood so naturally others would spend money to bypass the songs to hear better choices.

We also had a kill button behind the bar to cancel any song playing. Used sparingly but at times an inappropriate song, usually a Rap song with explicit lyrics about bitches and ho’s sucking cock, was playing at a time when families were still in the restaurant area of the bar.

They worked on a 50/50 split so there was no expense for the bar and was easy cash weekly.

Interesting to hear about the way those juke boxes worked on a financial level. Tiny Dancer has to be one of the most overrated songs of all time. Elton has a half dozen or more songs that are elite level and a bunch of other solid tunes. I swear I would hear Tiny Dancer as much, as the other half dozen elite songs combined over the last 40+ years. Overplayed to death.

[pepe]

Internet juke boxes in the bars. Pretty wide range of music. Entire catalogues of artists. So I could play good songs that weren't so famous. It was great.

The money those things brought in for me over the years was amazing. Years back they added an app so people could play from their phone using a credit card. Which eliminated the need for customers to have cash and encouraged people to spend more buying credits. And customers could play songs anonymously to not be judged on their selections.

One nice feature was the ability to pay extra credits to skip others songs so your selection plays next. At times we would use our free credits given as an operator to play a couple shit songs like Tiny Dancer that killed the mood so naturally others would spend money to bypass the songs to hear better choices.

We also had a kill button behind the bar to cancel any song playing. Used sparingly but at times an inappropriate song, usually a Rap song with explicit lyrics about bitches and ho’s sucking cock, was playing at a time when families were still in the restaurant area of the bar.

They worked on a 50/50 split so there was no expense for the bar and was easy cash weekly.

I HATE those kill buttons. If you don't want a song playing it's your job to delete it from the list so it doesn't show up. If I pay good money to hear a song I want to hear my damn song. If you press that kill button you damn well better be refunding me my dollar.

[Mission146]

Fuck, you guys have some boring entertainment preferences, no offense.

I have seen exactly zero James Bond movies from beginning to end. The N64 game was pretty good back in the day, though.

Internet juke boxes in the bars. Pretty wide range of music. Entire catalogues of artists. So I could play good songs that weren't so famous. It was great. Here's one by Creedence I bet you never heard:

Those things are great; I just wish they didn't have the, "Be a dick," button. That's the one where someone can go up and pay an extra credit to move their song to the front of the line unless someone has previously done that, then it will just play after other front of the line songs.

On one occasion, someone did that to me even though it had been dead quiet for ten minutes before I played a few. My fiancee and I got our revenge though, I set it up to play Macarena ten times in a row after the other front of the line songs were done and rolled out.

[Rob.Singer]

Fuck, you guys have some boring entertainment preferences, no offense.

I have seen exactly zero James Bond movies from beginning to end. The N64 game was pretty good back in the day, though.

Internet juke boxes in the bars. Pretty wide range of music. Entire catalogues of artists. So I could play good songs that weren't so famous. It was great. Here's one by Creedence I bet you never heard:

Those things are great; I just wish they didn't have the, "Be a dick," button. That's the one where someone can go up and pay an extra credit to move their song to the front of the line unless someone has previously done that, then it will just play after other front of the line songs.

On one occasion, someone did that to me even though it had been dead quiet for ten minutes before I played a few. My fiancee and I got our revenge though, I set it up to play Macarena ten times in a row after the other front of the line songs were done and rolled out.

Those of us who have that album have heard it---over and over again.

[kewlJ]

Those of us who have that album have heard it---over and over again.

Albums. Do you have it on 8 track as well? Would go well with your CB equipment and other electronics from the 80's. Breaker, breaker one nine.

Now we are starting to get into the cause of all the bitterness from some of you guys. Some of you guys are drunks, having wasted half your life in bars, apparently feeding the jukebox. Boz has an excuse...he owned the bar. Mickey has been upfront. But some of the rest of you are closeted drunks and rednecks looking back at your bar days with pride and the rest of your life with regret and bitterness. No wonder you are such unlikeable pricks to everyone except other unlikeable pricks.

[Ozzy]

Those of us who have that album have heard it---over and over again.

Albums. Do you have it on 8 track as well? Would go well with your CB equipment and other electronics from the 80's. Breaker, breaker one nine.

Now we are starting to get into the cause of all the bitterness from some of you guys. Some of you guys are drunks, having wasted half your life in bars, apparently feeding the jukebox. Boz has an excuse...he owned the bar. Mickey has been upfront. But some of the rest of you are closeted drunks and rednecks looking back at your bar days with pride and the rest of your life with regret and bitterness. No wonder you are such unlikeable pricks to everyone except other unlikeable pricks.

That's all fine and dandy. Push comes to shove, you're the second UNKOOLEST on this forum. It's very hard to be as UNKOOL as you. One freakazoid manages to top you in that department !

[accountinquestion]

Those of us who have that album have heard it---over and over again.

Albums. Do you have it on 8 track as well? Would go well with your CB equipment and other electronics from the 80's. Breaker, breaker one nine.

Now we are starting to get into the cause of all the bitterness from some of you guys. Some of you guys are drunks, having wasted half your life in bars, apparently feeding the jukebox. Boz has an excuse...he owned the bar. Mickey has been upfront. But some of the rest of you are closeted drunks and rednecks looking back at your bar days with pride and the rest of your life with regret and bitterness. No wonder you are such unlikeable pricks to everyone except other unlikeable pricks.

Lol you're too much. You whine about bullies and all this and that then you want to insult people who have spent time in bars. I've spent plenty of time in bars. Was the time wasted? No, not really. It would not have been put to anything useful otherwise. Just burnt time, like watching TV or whatever else. You hang out with your friends, drink beer, talk about life. Kewl appears to not have many friends so maybe he just doesn't get it. You'd think though for a guy that cries uncle poor me my profession is at stake - you wouldn't see him insulting all manner of people.

I mean, what have you done with all your time Kewl? Convince everyone you're some never-ending blackjack counter that makes a decent living but nothing special? Give us a break. Shut-up and take a nap.

[mickeycrimm]

Those of us who have that album have heard it---over and over again.

Albums. Do you have it on 8 track as well? Would go well with your CB equipment and other electronics from the 80's. Breaker, breaker one nine.

Now we are starting to get into the cause of all the bitterness from some of you guys. Some of you guys are drunks, having wasted half your life in bars, apparently feeding the jukebox. Boz has an excuse...he owned the bar. Mickey has been upfront. But some of the rest of you are closeted drunks and rednecks looking back at your bar days with pride and the rest of your life with regret and bitterness. No wonder you are such unlikeable pricks to everyone except other unlikeable pricks.

Now you are showing your ignorance. Albums have made a comeback. There are more albums for sale at Walmart than CD's.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...DdNPKcWII_uzx_

[kewlJ]

Now you are showing your ignorance. Albums have made a comeback. There are more albums for sale at Walmart than CD's.

CD's hun? Congratulations, you are up to the 1990 or early 2000's. I bought cd's when I was in high school.

[mcap]

There’s a certain amount of irony that comes from writing multiple paragraphs to call people bitter on response to a one sentence post. You’re being the bitter one Kewlj.

[jbjb]

Albums, CDs, 8 tracks? I still use this cassette to 8 track adapter.

https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/di...r-sure-you-do/

[monet]

I wish I still had my 8 Tracks and Player.
Those were cool.
My favorite was when the tape would get all tangled up.
Good Times.

[MisterV]

Rob, you're an audiophile: do you mind telling me the manufacturer and model of the components in your main system?

I too am an audiophile, so I'll be able to keep up.

[Rob.Singer]

Rob, you're an audiophile: do you mind telling me the manufacturer and model of the components in your main system?

I too am an audiophile, so I'll be able to keep up.

I know you're looking to criticize, but I'll answer this because audio has become a big part of my retirement life which has ties to some of my younger years when I had the ability to read about and buy but not the time to fully enjoy.

I've had different system components over the years. My current set-up includes old school and the new stuff. A few items are brand new. The discussion about vinyl piqued my interest in responding. I'd say 97% of my record collection is in pristine condition.

I use (and have found nothing better) 4 original Bose 901 Series I direct/reflecting speakers hung from the ceiling--2 straight ahead and one each to the left and right. All of course face the speakers to the 3 walls.

These are very thirsty speakers, and I power them with dual Bose 1801 metered power amps, run thru a Bose 4401 pre-amp. My tuner is a Nad C-427.

While Bose is the yesteryear heart of my system and while some of this has changed over the years, the pride of it is my Vertere MG-1 MKII turntable and it's Sumiko Starling & Vertere Mystic cartridges. I use the tonearm that came with the turntable. There's several different phono amps and other ancillary equipment.

[accountinquestion]

Rob, you're an audiophile: do you mind telling me the manufacturer and model of the components in your main system?

I too am an audiophile, so I'll be able to keep up.

I know you're looking to criticize, but I'll answer this because audio has become a big part of my retirement life which has ties to some of my younger years when I had the ability to read about and buy but not the time to fully enjoy.

I've had different system components over the years. My current set-up includes old school and the new stuff. A few items are brand new. The discussion about vinyl piqued my interest in responding. I'd say 97% of my record collection is in pristine condition.

I use (and have found nothing better) 4 original Bose 901 Series I direct/reflecting speakers hung from the ceiling--2 straight ahead and one each to the left and right. All of course face the speakers to the 3 walls.

These are very thirsty speakers, and I power them with dual Bose 1801 metered power amps, run thru a Bose 4401 pre-amp. My tuner is a Nad C-427.

While Bose is the yesteryear heart of my system and while some of this has changed over the years, the pride of it is my Vertere MG-1 MKII turntable and it's Sumiko Starling & Vertere Mystic cartridges. I use the tonearm that came with the turntable. There's several different phono amps and other ancillary equipment.

So what do you say to all the audiophiles who say Bose is overpriced and fails to deliver quality sound?

Google something like "Are bose speakers any good"