PxTone AutoPlayer

Basically what this does is you put it in your folder with the PxTone music you want to listen to, and hit load. When you press Start, it will play the song until it's over and then picks the next one randomly if the RAND button is highlighted, or in numerical order if not. If the LOOP button is pressed, then it will just loop one song indefinitely. PREV takes you back to the last song you were listening to, RESET starts the current song from the beginning, and QUIT does just what it says. You can also navigate the list yourself with the arrow buttons on the right, and choose a song manually. It's set up to hold a maximum of 999 songs, but if you can get a thousand PxTone compositions then I'd be amazed. The graphics are just on a plain ol' bitmap, so if you so wanted you could customize the buttons and background.

The buttons are iconic now instead of words. << is PREV, <| is RESET, ? is RAND, || is PAUSE, > is PLAY, the loop symbol is LOOP and X is QUIT

V1.2
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V1.1
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V1.0
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Thanks to tile44.org for hosting

I appreciate any and all feedback :]

*Note: Only for use on Microsoft Windows(tm) Operating systems.

 

4 Internets to Noxid (if it works xP)

 

Looks amazing. What'd you use to program this?

Please don't tell me you did this in asm.. /jk

 

haha, that would be so hardcore. Naw, I did it strictly in C++ with the DevC++ Compiler, and Allegro 4.4 for my Graphics library. Allegro comes with some built-in GUI functions but they're so ugly I just did mine from scratch.

 

I love the idea behind it and the GUI. It's got my vote.

Just checking but it does support .pttune files as well as .ptcop right?

 

yep! At least one of those songs listed there is .pttune, but the filename was too long... :/

 

off of the top of my head,
Perhaps the autoplayer should automatically hide the file extension, because it looks a little weird.
Maybe use colors or symbols to indicate what file type the song is.
Just an idea.

 

That sounds like a good idea. Perhaps red for pttune, blue for ptcop.

Current Progress: I have the Rand and Loop toggles running, Prev, Start and Pause buttons working. Determining playback position is a tad more difficult than I had imagined, currently doing a bit of research on function pointers and callbacks. After I get that I can set up song switching and stuff.

 

Excellent.
Looking forward to the first release, I'm sure I will use it all the time (an in-application list of songs is so useful)!
:]

 

V1.0 Released.

 

Will download in approx. 3 hours.
:]

 

Downloading now...

btw, how do you get a tile44 account?

 

Sexual favours.

 

Or voodoo.

 

V1.1;

Added in V1.1 - Fixed minor glitch where shorter songs wouldn't switch, made the UI more compact and hopefully more understandable to non-english speakers. Increased the # of characters in name display. Made text color not hard-coded. Turned error display on.

 

Very cool!

I would love to compile this for AmigaOS4, could you make the source available? Pretty please!

 

I would love too, but there's just one teensy problem. I don't really know how to program properly and I couldn't get the callback thing to work so I cheated and hacked the .exe a little bit after compiling to make it work

If you still want it even knowing that, I'd be happy to bundle it up for you though.

 

just come to think of something.. does it use the pxtone.dll or is it portable?
i assumed it was portable, but maybe it isn't?

 

It's not portable :s
it uses PxTone as well as Allegro.

 

allegro is no problem, it exists for most platforms, but that closed source pxtone.dll though... :/
oh well.. maybe one day someone will make a portable replacement..
thanx anyway!