Short: -*AMOREL*- No fuss multiformat(OSS etc.!) player! Author: amorel@xs4all.nl Uploader: amorel@xs4all.nl Type: mus/play Url: http://www.xs4all.nl/~amorel This audio/song player supports: * Octamed Soundstudio (OSS) * Any other octamed and med format * Mods * Digibooster(through AHI) * Iff 8 bit samples direct from disk * More to come.... UPDATE: * Visualprefs problem solved out of place gadget characters Thanks to Stefano Clemente, Tomislav Kitynski and Thomas Hurst for telling me :-) * Little bugfix concerning stopping a mod and then loading new one. * Added eject button. * Bugfix: When playing a sample without a playlist it hangs, grmbl thanks to Curt Esser for telling me. * Playlist! Enough said :-) * Added font sensitivity concerning the window title, so the window gadgets will draw correctly if the windowtitle has a different size font than 8. etc. INSTALL: Copy libraries to libs: Copy main program anywhere you like! To start: This program is shareware but fully functional. Please pay $5,- or 10,- Dutch guilders. Contact me for payment information. If you pay, you will get better support and you will get updates sooner. Also I`m more likely to implement your wishes :-) And of course paying this reasonable fee will encourage me to improve this more and more. Check my site for anything about this and my modules, ramblings and links! The story: This is my first attempt to make a proper program for the Amiga. As some may know I love (electronic)music and compose it myself. Of course I have been using(and still use) several of the best Amiga song(module) players around. But I found them to be overfeatured, with tons of menu options and window gadgets and supporting tons of formats noone will be likely to have ever heard about ;-) In other words, in an attempt to cover everything audio and what not they became sort of overkill.... to me at least. Hence my motivation to make a song/audio/module, whatever the name should be, player. Besides the Amiga I`ve been developing on several other platforms, the C=64, for job(s): the IBM AS/400 and some other platform widely used, which I prefer to forget. Tools used: Amiga 1200 with a 175 mHz ppc/25 mHz 040 powerup card and 32 mb of memory. Blitz Basic, a great programming language for which some of the best games ever have been made and are being made. Also very good for application development. Coffee, tea, gym, team fortress quaking(try 137.226.116.82 for that :) to keep my sanity ;-) The program: Ok, as you know by now this program plays modules of different formats. The formats currently supported are: * Med, Octamed, Soundstudio(thus 4 channel, 8 channel and the newest octamed soundstudio up to 64 channel formats) * Pt module(the standard mod format) * Digibooster through AHI(a new composing program becoming pretty popular) * IFF 8 bit samples, direct from disk(so no memory limitations) The most widely used formats are covered as far as I`m concerned(after all I started to make this for myself to begin with ;). There will appear some more support for other formats(see `future`) and if you think I missed out something really obvious, tell me. Usage: I`m not gonna tell, ought to be obvious :-) Needed: several octamed related libraries(included) dbplayer.library (included) libraries for powerpacker and xpk(included) AHI for digibooster(not included) Features: * Multi format(of course :) * PLAYLIST! * Support for xpk`ed and powerpacked files, decrunching in fastmemory if available. * `App` support, thus drag and drop on window, appicon or appmenu(shift select) * Plays (octa)med, soundstudio and digibooster songs from fastmemory if available. * Fast and easy gadtools GUI * Soundperiod displayed with PT modules(working on it for other formats) * Usage of standard libraries for replay and decrunch, except PT modules and IFF 8 bit samples. (hm is that a feature or laziness? ;) * Able to load in ANY file and attempt to play it, asking you beforehand of course(see and listen for yourself ;) Might be usefull for the few people who love weird sounds, some files give perfect sounds for a psychedelic electro song :-D * Reasonably small and fast, doesnt use up much resources. Needs very little memory to run * Works on all cpu types(as far as i know) and maybe even on Amiga os <2.0, not tested though. * .... ask me for features you want/need! Tested on: * Amiga 1200 with 175 mHz ppc, 25 mHz 040 and 32 mb fast * Amiga 1200 with 060 * Bare Amiga 1200 2 mb chip, 14 mHz 020 Known bugs: I have fixed all the bugs I found so far, except: This program should support sid songs, but I haven`t got that working yet. It`ll load sids in and all(If you`ve got the playsid library), it just doesn`t want to make any sound. TELL ME IF IT WORKS FOR YOU! For the rest I do not know of any bugs present, that doesn`t mean however that there are not any bugs, most likely there are(as in any program). if you find some, contact me. Future: * SID songs working properly! ;-) * 16 bit sample support * fast forward and rewind on other than PT modules * showing of period on other than PT modules * more formats(tell me) * `jukebox` option, randomly/sequentially play songs, or a `playlist`. * mp3 support(maybe!) * more I can`t think of(it`s 4.23 in the night now :) again, contact me. Make me a nice icon 8-) Credits: Wendy, my wife who I love a lot! Fabio Bizzetti as beta tester Teijo Kinunnen for the great Octamed(Soundstudio) Frederic Laboureur for New Commandset in Blitz(likes enfocer hits ;) James L Boyd for Pupit(powerpacker (un)pack) Xbones, Binary Assault Rick Hodger Red When Excited Acid Jay Miner, whose intellect made all this possible :-) Greetings: All on #amigaquake/#amycoders and #theend! Delphine `Elecwnch` Thomas `A340` August `Gustli` Damnation(long time no see) Nicholas `Yagger`(idem) Rune `Shitlips`(idem) The people on the Blitz list I forgot many.... -*LOVE*- ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 383 258 32.6% 11-Jul-98 02:10:22 Amoralplayer.info 16960 9270 45.3% 10-Sep-98 18:08:48 dbplayer.library 19928 10274 48.4% 31-Jan-99 01:48:48 medplayer.library 28224 10325 63.4% 18-Jan-99 04:24:22 octamixplayer.library 13540 7167 47.0% 25-Jan-99 02:04:34 octaplayer.library 6128 4144 32.3% 18-Jan-99 04:24:14 powerpacker.library 11448 7090 38.0% 18-Jan-99 04:24:18 xpkmaster.library 56128 56128 0.0% 19-Apr-99 04:45:32 Amoralplayer 6122 3086 49.5% 19-Apr-99 04:43:44 Amoralplay1.1.readme -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 158861 107742 32.1% 21-Apr-99 22:33:20 9 files