JukeCab – pronounced jooka cab – is a build-it-yourself jukebox interface inspired by Fruitbox, DW Jukebox, and SK Jukebox. Like those classic programs, JukeCab lets you design your own jukebox experience, but it goes well beyond traditional title strips.
With JukeCab, your media library can be displayed in multiple modes, including Songs/Tracks, Albums, Artists, Genres, Decades, Videos, and Playlists. These modes can be shown as classic jukebox title strips, artwork-based grids, or mixed views, giving you the freedom to create anything from a retro wallbox-style interface to a modern touchscreen media browser.
The idea is simple: move through your library using buttons, a keyboard, game controller, or touchscreen input regions. For example, in Artist mode, you can select an artist, drill down into that artist’s albums or tracks, choose an album, and then queue the songs you want to hear. This process is called “drilling down” into the final view. Prefer something simpler? A skin can also be locked down to behave more like older legacy jukebox software, showing only tracks and keeping navigation straightforward.
JukeCab also includes two companion apps. The first is an artist artwork scraper that helps you download artist portraits and logos for use inside JukeCab. Since MP3 files do not normally contain dedicated artist artwork, this tool scans your music library and helps fill in the missing visuals. The second companion app is a volume normalization tool that scans your media and non-destructively creates a database of normalization settings for each supported file. JukeCab then uses that data during playback so loud and quiet tracks play back at a more consistent volume.
JukeCab supports dual-screen setups, touchscreen control, and XInput-compatible game controllers. A built-in menu system gives you access to a wide range of settings, allowing you to customize playback behavior, display options, controls, skins, and more without editing files by hand.
Supported media formats include .mp3, .flac, .wav, .m4a, .wma, .aac, .mp4, .mkv, .avi, .mov, .wmv, and .m4v.