Jukeboxes are good now

Jukeboxes recently got updated and by recently I mean three months ago yeah I’m perfectly on time as always now this added functionality is really interesting to me because we can now put music discs into jukeboxes using Redstone components like droppers and Hoppers and also a jukebox will output a

Redstone signal when a disc is playing I mean that is like super curious look it Powers things like Pistons so that’s definitely going to have actual Redstone functionality but for me right now I want to make a music disc shuffling device you turn the machine on it starts

Playing music it will randomly select disks from your selection playing them constantly until you turn it off so let’s begin so first things first we’ve got our input which is just going to be a button and that’s all hooked up to the T flip flops when we hit this button

That turns Shuffle on and when we hit the button again that turns Shuffle off levers are for losers now I just need to work out our shuffling system so yeah I’m gonna put the music discs into the Jukebox making use of a hopper that’s fine there’s 16 different music discs

Which is okay so you need two different droppers and I want it to be a truly random shuffle I also want to make it so that it has to go through all of the songs before it starts playing songs again as much as I love the music discount I don’t want to

Accidentally listen to it four times in a row so I’m thinking can we feed these into the side we can okay that’s very interesting very very interesting so then if I was to build up a system like this and then we could shuffle them using droppers down at the bottom bear

With me a second here my brain is working very hard because I also want it to be quite compact as well okay let’s actually break it down so there’s going to be a part of the circuit that detects when there are no songs left so then it

Has to reset and that is achieved by this or gate it will also not reset until the song has finished playing we need to soak out of the back to Power The Hoppers to stop new songs going to the Jukebox to switch the system off and

We need a system to send the items back up to the top so that the whole process can start again this thing’s looking a bit big isn’t it I’m going to try a new idea it’ll still have all the same elements but it’s just rearranged okay

This is kind of weird definitely kind of a bit weird the hopper Minecart didn’t actually work but this idea definitely should what the system is doing is is evenly and randomly Distributing our items between the two sides of droppers so that Redstone clock right there is just powering and unpowering a hopper

Which means there’s a 50 chance it’s either going to go into this bottom dropper down here or into this dropper over here now one why do I want to do that well it’s because our music discs don’t fit into a single dropper if they all fit into one dropper then that would

Be very easy to shuffle because droppers automatically randomize the items that they’re sending out and because we’re using two I want to make sure that there’s no real order to the way that the droppers fill up because otherwise a song that came on early in the previous

Shuffle is highly likely to come on early in the next Shuffle I’m sure some of you might be thinking well what if we just power both of these droppers at the same time and then surely it’ll be random which one actually gets to put the disc into the Jukebox unfortunately

That’s not the case due to update orders this dropper right here always wins that battle and always puts the disc into the Jukebox before this one does I now have more respect for my 2004 iPod for doing all of this stuff behind the scenes how did it manage to fit all the droppers

And hoppers in there so just like in the Prototype that we built over there we also need the circuit which tells us when the discs have run out and when it needs to reset and we also need the circuit that is going to be sending all of the

Items back up to the top which could look something like this and the entire machine could look something like this now this this is working in theory it should all be functional but I’m still looking at it and thinking this is very over complicated for what it’s actually doing also in this current

System when the system resets and it does a fresh Shuffle there’s a chance that the last song that played on the last Shuffle could be the first song that plays in the new Shuffle which means you’d hear the same song twice in quick succession and I don’t want that

So we’re going to move over to a rolling shuffling system so it’s still going to randomize your songs but it’s also going to make sure that the last five or maybe 10 songs that have been played won’t get played again and it should be simpler too and then eventually I’ll hook it all

Up to our original circuit and make a proper build a lot of head scratching later I’ve managed to work this thing out my smart shuffler is now fully constructed and it’s pretty small it’s two blocks wide it’s five blocks tall and it’s four blocks long I definitely

Think someone smarter than me could make it slightly shorter but my main priority was the smart Shuffle system making sure that you can’t get repeat songs too often so this system guarantees that you’re going to have a minimum of seven songs before you could possibly get a

Repeat and seven is the worst case scenario now normally you would just leave this thing running but I’m going to do a bit of a test so let’s flick the system on everything is playing this is song number one song number two is rather scary hopefully song number three

Is a little bit better let’s hear what number four is then we have number five number six number seven number eight number nine and that is it so we have shuffled nine songs nine different songs have played remember the whole point of this system is that you don’t have to

Right click on the jukebox those songs would play automatically you could just have this somewhere in your base and constantly have background music which sounds like a lovely idea until all the scary ones come on anyway let’s get this full build constructed wow I’ve got my own desert island for a redstone

Contraption I don’t think I’ve ever had that before obviously this is a really nice compactor or Redstone circuit but I want to add a few extra functions to it they’ll make it significantly cooler now the first thing is a button because as you may mentioned earlier on levers are

For losers and I’m sure you can now see why I say that this just looks way better and cleaner then from there I’m going to take a comparator output from the side of our jukebox and that will give us a redstone signal strength which changes depending on what music disc is

On the inside of the Jukebox which means if we hook it up to a red coder we can then display what song is currently playing which is amazing for someone like me who has absolutely no idea what any of the Minecraft songs are seriously I know chirp and Cat and that’s about it

The fact that I use the button is now getting in the way of my red coder and now I might need to choose between the red coder and the button all right even I’m regretting choosing the button right now this is enormous what an absolute

Mess but it works and it looks lovely I just need to connect this into this and then this there and yeah that is that is showing a music disc then hopefully once I run this Redstone line across all of the Redstone lamps should turn off apart from from one uh okay that is

That’s not working is it and it’s because I’ve been a little bit stupid but now I fixed it and that that is correct let’s get to all of the indicators in place now rather frustratingly Minecraft 1.20 is actually the first Minecraft update that has a shared Redstone signal for a music disc

There are now more music discs than there are Redstone signal strengths so this redstone lamp could either be other side or it could be Relic which is being introduced in Minecraft 1.20 so with all the details in place let’s get building and with all the building in place let’s

Get to listening so if I hit this button here we should see the track will change which it has and we will immediately start listening to music of course the first song that comes on is the incredibly scary new song this one’s deceptive because it has

A really nice bit in the middle this bit here and then it goes back to being absolutely terrifying I have nightmares about this but then eventually the Terrors will stop and the song should automatically change hopefully to something happier and that sounds like the end and it’s working

Yes so now we have other side playing a little redstone lamp did the thing this thing’s super cool and this this is more like it this is the sort of thing that I want coming out of my jukebox not that I don’t like the other one but man

It’s not something that I would listen to at home let’s get one more for like the song is ending so we’ll get another song change here foreign there we go blocks redstone lamp everything’s functioning I’m incredibly happy now remember the actual brains of this system is this tiny little circuit

Right here all of the big bulkiness comes with the redstone lamp indicators which I have to say are incredibly cool if I was building this in my base I would definitely have them the actual Redstone Contraption itself is really quite simple I hope you enjoyed I’ll catch you in the next video see