Maybe You Can Go a Bit Too Far with a Project?

DoghouseRiley · by **DoghouseRiley** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:15 pm

I've had two jukebox wall boxes connected to my vintage-hi-fi via an adapter and an iPod for a few years. Vintage wall boxes are only designed to play the number of records in the carousel of a parent jukebox or a "hideaway." This will never be more than 200 and in the case of this model 160. It won't play any more than that number regardless of the number of mp3s on the iPod. Swopping the adapter and the iPods over using a second wall box, I increased the selections to 320, (no duff "B sides" with this system).

I've since taken it further and acquired another title card magazine from a damaged wall box. This model is unique as the title card magazines can be easily removed to facilitate the changing of title cards. With a third iPod my options increase to 480.

My wife thinks I'm mad, as I've a memory stick in the TV with a few thousand mp3s on it.
But she really understands that there's no "nostalgia element" with a memory stick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi2qHDFL9Ek

by **Ron Rich** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:32 pm

Riley,
Whut kin I said---

I agree with your wife !!
Ron Rich

DoghouseRiley · by **DoghouseRiley** » Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:14 pm

Ron Rich wrote:Riley,
Whut kin I said---
I agree with your wife !!
Ron Rich

She can Talk, she's into decoupage card and costume jewellery making. You won't believe the amount of kit she's got.

It's just a pastime (like mine) she makes them for friends and relatives, not for any financial gain, she must have spent a few thousand quid on the materials over the years.

clones · by **clones** » Thu Apr 02, 2015 4:49 pm

Hi
I have four wallboxes a rockola 507, seeburg 3w1 100, a seeburg 200 selection and a seeburg sc1 running of the wipod system. The 220 to 30 volt transformer I use has two 25 volt ouputs 's, so through a combination of on-off-on switches and a number of ipods i run all from the one wipod , although naturally enough only one can be used at the one time. The rca plugs run to a regular amp, although i have toyed with the idea of using a bluetooth transmitter and receiver. Also have a rockola 501 which is run from a vinyl machine and stepper
Clones

DoghouseRiley · by **DoghouseRiley** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 12:20 am

clones wrote:Hi
I have four wallboxes a rockola 507, seeburg 3w1 100, a seeburg 200 selection and a seeburg sc1 running of the wipod system. The 220 to 30 volt transformer I use has two 25 volt ouputs 's, so through a combination of on-off-on switches and a number of ipods i run all from the one wipod , although naturally enough only one can be used at the one time. The rca plugs run to a regular amp, although i have toyed with the idea of using a bluetooth transmitter and receiver. Also have a rockola 501 which is run from a vinyl machine and stepper
Clones

Yeah, but have you got a saxophone?

No, seriously I'm impressed!

ds100h · by **ds100h** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 5:58 am

Hi Dog

My wife has the same two illnesses as your wife. I could not stop laughing when I read your post. We have 2 Seeburg DS100s, 2 Seeburg DS160s, a Seeburg 100A that plays 33 1/3 12 inch albums (all hooked up to wall boxes) a Seeburg KS 200 (that has a wall box but an unnamed source is adamant that I not hook up the wall box to the KS

), a Rockola1454, Rockola Legend 7000 CD player and an NSM Prestiege II and she says I am sick while she has too many cards and jewelery for me to begin to count.

Question you say 200 is max, would the NSM 240 I only be able to play 200 of the 240 selections? or did NSM have a wall box that could up the 200 to 240?

Best
Darrell

MattTech · by **MattTech** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 6:31 am

All I'm gonna say is that my house looks like a house, not a collector's storage locker.

DoghouseRiley · by **DoghouseRiley** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 12:48 pm

ds100h wrote:Hi Dog

My wife has the same two illnesses as your wife. I could not stop laughing when I read your post. We have 2 Seeburg DS100s, 2 Seeburg DS160s, a Seeburg 100A that plays 33 1/3 12 inch albums (all hooked up to wall boxes) a Seeburg KS 200 (that has a wall box but an unnamed source is adamant that I not hook up the wall box to the KS ), a Rockola1454, Rockola Legend 7000 CD player and an NSM Prestiege II and she says I am sick while she has too many cards and jewelery for me to begin to count.

Question you say 200 is max, would the NSM 240 I only be able to play 200 of the 240 selections? or did NSM have a wall box that could up the 200 to 240?

Best
Darrell

Hi Darrell.

As far as I'm aware, it's down to the mechanics of the wall box. If you take my Rock-Ola 507, the first four selections are, 100, 200, 140, 240.
The adapter converts them to 1, 2, 3, 4. on the iTunes playlist. The wall box won't let you select any other numbers than those on the title cards, you'll get a re-select light, if you try it. So that limits everything.
This three-page box is further complicated, as what you think should be the second page, which begins with the number 145, is actually the third page, you have to use the other page of selections which begins 172, before that or all the selections on the second two pages are out of order. You also only have to miss out one track on the iTunes playlist, then everything after it is one selection out. But once you've mastered that, it works like a dream. I put all the selections for each wall box magazine in an individual file on my lap top. That means when I'm updated the selections having removed and replaced a few on the playlist, the "sync" process doesn't have you looking for any selections it's lost. You just have to make sure that the one you're changing you give the correct code and the other two a different one or it could play the wrong playlist.

Regards,

Dog.

djricksha · by **djricksha** » Wed Apr 08, 2015 12:10 am

Well I've tried playing an I pod and a cd player, through one of my jukes , my opinion is why bother, a jukebox is for playing vinyl, of which the sound can not be beaten, so I will always stick to my 800 selections, unless I'm allowed another jukebox in the living room. I don't load records with duff B sides.

maybe in fifty years time I pods may come under the nostalgia bracket. long live vinyl.
I have an understanding wife, (she understands she has no choice as she is a Reiki master

amongst other things. so at least I'm still in the real world.)

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