CarBox
CarBox is a front-end application, designed for use in a Carputer. Its primary aim is to make it easy to play music, videos, and have satellite navigation in your car.
Features
Briefly, CarBox's features comprise: -
- Support for Windows Media Player 9.0 (for Music and Video).
- Support for Destinator 2.0 (for GPS Navigation).
- Can embed GPS application of your choosing within the CarBox window, so alt-tab is not required.
- Fully resumes play after hibernate/restart (windows must be configured)
- Select a directory subtree to replace, or add to current playlist. Allows for queuing up as much music as you need for your journey!
- Search facility, to find individual songs/movies, or full albums.
- Fully skinnable. Patience required!
- Scalable skins, so you can view them at any screen resolution.
- Run-time switchable skins, for example day/night skins.
- Option to embed GPS application in Visualisation screen. Small, but handy.
- Option to startup GPS application when CarBox starts.
- Ability to embed multiple applications, as required.
- Gamma correction, for adjusting brightness for night mode.
- Configurable Keyboard Controls - Mean a remote control can be used, eg with Girder.
- Integrated clock. Woot!
- Possibly other things which I've forgotten about/deemed unimportant.
Screenshots
Getting CarBox
Click the links in the table below to download CarBox and its components: -
| CarBox-0.7.1 | This is the CarBox application. You need this. |
| CarBox-0.7 Skinner | This is the skinning application. If you intend to create your own skins for CarBox, download this too. |
| CarBox-0.7 Space Skin | This is another skin for CarBox. If you don't like the default skin, and you can't be bothered to create your own, try this one. |
| CarBox-0.7 Contrast Skin | This is the very excellent Contrast Skin. Initially created by Terran Brown for Media Engine, it now graces the screens of CarBox! |
| CarBox-0.7 Star Trek LCARS Skin | This skin emulates the look of the Star Trek LCARS computer system, and was created and provided by Axel Nieb of Germany. |
| CarBox-0.7 MortBox Skin | This skin is designed to look like MortPlayer, a Pocket PC based MP3 player, and was created by 'hhsfool' from the mp3car.com forums. |
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