(1) Software for managing music files. Also called a "digital music manager," "music manager," or just "jukebox," it lets users organize MP3 and other audio files into playlists and play the songs. The functions of digital jukeboxes have been merged into media players such as Windows Media Player and iTunes. See
media player.
(2) (Dell Digital Jukebox) A family of digital music players from Dell. Pocket DJs were hard disk players with up to 30GB of storage. The DJ Ditty was a 512MB flash-based model. Made by Creative Technology, Dell discontinued the Digital Jukebox line in 2006.
(3) A peripheral device that holds multiple storage modules (see
jukebox).
(4) A home theater player for music and movies. It has a hard drive or SSD for storage, a CD/DVD drive for copying source material and sometimes a keyboard and screen for control. Home theater digital jukeboxes support several audio and video formats; for example, see
MP3,
AAC,
FLAC,
MPEG and
H.264.
It May Be a Server or Hub, Not a Jukebox
If the device provides the ability to access files over the network, it is more likely called a "media server" or "media hub" and not a jukebox. See
digital media hub and
digital media server.