JUKE is a first-party retro music player with a spectrum/VU visualiser. It plays one file or a whole folder as a queue, and keeps playing when you leave for another screen. It is a player only: there is no pattern or sample editing.
JUKE [path$]
path$ - a file to play, or a folder to queue. Omit it to queue the
current directory. A folder queue includes supported files in
subfolders: each directory is taken folders A-Z, then the files
beside them, as deep as the paths allow. A single file plays
once; a folder queue continues through the queued files and then
wraps around.Supported formats:
MP3 MPEG audio
MOD ProTracker modules
XM FastTracker II modules
S3M ScreamTracker 3 modules
WAV PCM audioJUKE has its own fixed cool-grey palette: it does not follow OPTION THEME, so it looks the same under every system theme. Leaving JUKE restores your console theme untouched. The header carries a graffiti wordmark; the oscilloscope sits in its own panel under the title and trails a ghost history (older traces fade and cool, the newest stays lime). The 24 spectrum bars run straight from black to lime, and the transport and volume indicators run along the footer.
Controls:
SPACE play or pause
P previous track
N next track
L flip the middle of the screen between the visualiser and the playlist
Up Down move the playlist selection
Enter play the selected track while the playlist is showing
R shuffle on or off (SHUF lights up)
- + volume down / up (VOL bar shows the level)
M mute or unmute
S stop the queue and silence audio
ESC quit JUKE (music keeps playing)
Q quit JUKE (music keeps playing)
? open or close the shortcut helpL opens the playlist, which is laid out below the oscilloscope so the waveform stays visible. The queue is shown in play order, the same order NEXT and PREV follow. The current track is marked, the selection is highlighted, and the list scrolls when the queue is longer than the pane. Up and Down move the selection; Enter starts that track. Pressing L again returns to the visualiser and leaves the selection where it was. SPACE, P, N, R, volume, mute, S, and ESC do the same in both views.
The bottom bar shows only the core transport hints (play/pause, prev, next, ESC and `?`); every other shortcut is in the help modal. Press `?` to open it, and `?` or ESC to close it. Esc closes the modal only — a second Esc quits JUKE. Playback keeps running while the modal is open.
Shuffle reorders folder and queue play: NEXT and PREV follow the shuffled order, and the currently playing track stays put. The playlist follows that order. The title line prefers the song name stored in a MOD, XM, or S3M module, or the ID3 title of an MP3. A missing or unreadable name falls back to the file name, and the path is shown under the title when the two differ. Titles are read for the current track and for playlist rows as they are shown, not for every file while the queue is built. The playlist shows each track’s path under the folder when no song name is available. The queue holds every supported file in the folder tree; it is bounded only by available memory (a path is capped at 159 characters, and one directory contributes at most 4096 entries). Volume is the player gain that PLAY VOLUME sets; it holds across track changes while JUKE is open.
Enter on the visualiser quits; the music is not stopped, so you can keep listening from the console or join another screen. The queue keeps advancing in the background until it reaches the end of a single file or you use PLAY STOP.
If you switch to another console while JUKE is open, the track still ends and the queue still advances there; see CONSOLES.
Example:
JUKE "tests/TEST.MOD"
JUKE "music"
JUKESee PLAY for PLAY STOP, PLAY PAUSE and PLAY VOLUME.
Source: docs/help/juke.txt inmmcore. On the computer, typeHELP JUKE.