Until now, a shared layout was a picture of your title strips. Now it's a jukebox: the strips are the selections, and above them a mechanism fetches each record and plays it.
How to play it
- Open your layout in Layout Studio and click Simulator in the toolbar. It opens in a new tab, and saves your layout first if it has changes.
- Press the lit button beside a title. The buttons carry the same selection codes as Layout Studio: A1 is the top title of the first strip, A2 the title under it.
- Or use the keys under the glass: a letter, then the number. A keyboard works too.
The magazine turns to the record, the arm lifts it out and lays it on the turntable, and the needle comes down. The view moves in on the record, where the label shows the song, the artist and the year. A clip of about 30 seconds plays, then the record goes back to its slot.
More to try
- Line up a few songs. Selections you make while a record is playing wait their turn, as on a real jukebox.
- Reject ends the song that's playing.
- The bottom title is the other side. Pick a strip's second song and the arm turns the record over on its way to the turntable.
- Watch the magazine. Each slot's two codes are on the rim of the turning base, so you can see which record is where.
Send it to someone
In Layout Studio, click Share, then Copy Link or Facebook. Whoever opens the link gets the same jukebox, with your strips in your designs, and can play it without an account. It works on a phone too: the keys fold away there, and the buttons beside the titles are the way to choose.
Some songs have no clip, mostly rare pressings and private labels. Their records still play, with crackle only, for a few seconds.
New to layouts? Plan your jukebox layout covers setting one up.