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Madman
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 34 |
New SID frontend released !!
Hello fellow C64 freaks!
I just wanted to let you know that there is a new SID frontend available to the public now. It has features no other SID tool offers since today:
* Support Sidplay2/w for playback
* Support TinySID for playback
* Easy access to the entire High Voltage Sid Collection
* Easy single-click interface
* Songlength database support
* Continuous play to discover SIDs unknown to you
* Playlist support with ability to add certain subsongs
* Experimental sid2midi support (sid2midi.exe not included)
* Built in search function
* Build on .NET framework 2.0 (required)
Steppe from HVSC suggested i shall promote it here. So did i. Hope you like it.
http://sidtool.drool.de/
Regards,
Madman
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tora
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Registered: Jun 2005
Posts: 6 |
This is going better each day! :D Good work! :)
I've another tiny bug to report.
When pressing '<' or '>' to select next/previous subsongs, sometimes sidplay2 won't be started. I've also tried combinations of checking/unchecking the restart and hide options.
When sidplay2 doesn't start, just pressing stop and then play makes it play the selected subtune.
EDIT: It also happens with TinySid player. |
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Madman
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 34 |
Hmm that is some idea that came to my mind too, having people submit their sessiondata to some site.
But i'm not sure if there is enough audience for such a feature ? How many of the people on lastfm are into SID music ?
Songlength still is a problem, even for SidTool, as there are quite a bunch of SIDs that have no songlengths defined. I use 120 seconds then.
I may consider that for an upcoming version past 1.0, depending on the feedback i get about this. I'd like to make a MOD-Port for Amiga music too, as soon as i learn about some comandline-capable MOD-Player, or even add MOD support to SIDtool and i guess the audience will like triple.
But to be honest, for now i will be glad to have the tool finished and stable as it is now. It has more features by now than i ever considered adding :) And all these bugs drive me somewhat nuts atm :-P |
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Madman
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 34 |
Quote: This is going better each day! :D Good work! :)
I've another tiny bug to report.
When pressing '<' or '>' to select next/previous subsongs, sometimes sidplay2 won't be started. I've also tried combinations of checking/unchecking the restart and hide options.
When sidplay2 doesn't start, just pressing stop and then play makes it play the selected subtune.
EDIT: It also happens with TinySid player.
Yes, thats something that happens now and then.
No clue why at the moment. I use the same function to start the SID, no matter wether you click the song or hit the play button, as its inside the SIDtune class i made. I will look into that soon ofcourse.
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Madman
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 34 |
Yay. HVSC 46 is out.
So i released 0.9.5 which has option to convert your HVSC45 PlayList to HVSC46 paths.
Also added random play and now saving window size and column width of search results and Playlist.
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SIDWAVE
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Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2238 |
Bug: when i (simple) search for "rambones", it goes to /musicians/w/ and shows only this one path.
To get back to top level, i have then to search for "" (nothing).
Strange.
Bug: if touching anything while its generating search index, it hangs.
Unknown..: in my dir /musicians/r/rambones/ the top 4 files are the newest, but the list is not alphasorted. is it sorted on date ?
Bug: shows STIL entries 3 times after another..
Bug: does not show global STIL comment!
Bug: sometimes, when clicking a tune in the "advanced search window", the STIL for that tune does not show!
No possibility to resize the STIL view ?
BUG; sometimes, a tune is started 2 times! so you have 2 copies of the tune playing! only seen this with vice..
After all this, still a nice proggy!
I love the sound quality of VICE :) compared to..
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Madman
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 34 |
-I allready added global STIL support. (Not released yet tho)
-No way for me to alter ordering of sidlist afaik.
-3 times the same still info ? Nobody noted that before...
-Building SearchDB is hella slow since 46. But its not a primary task, as you only do that once per HVSC update usually. It most likely doesnt even hang, its still building searchDB.txt. check filesize in explorer.
The rest:
i will look into those.
But i will slow things a bit now. I dont know why, but the more features i add, the more people complain about the sidplayer not stopping properly. I will have to do some code cleanup now and check this bug at first.
Also im a little bit tired of that tool right now, as i work on it like a month now on a daily base. I may take a day off or two, sometimes ideas appear from the distance, or things you didnt notice a while point out on a kinda fresh approach.
Yet your reports will not vanish unheard :)
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tora
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Registered: Jun 2005
Posts: 6 |
Resting is good! :)
There's no point on getting exhausted, this is something you should enjoy, not suffer ;D
So take your time and work on it when you feel like it! |
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Madman
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 34 |
Well, the rest is somewhat over, 0.9.6 is out.
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Madman
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 34 |
And another update: Thanks to Peter Sanden, who helped me track down and finally eleminate a bug, which did not stop a SID after you doubleclicked on a Sid in the SIDlist, 0.9.6.1 is out. Only 1 major bug left to 1.0 :) |
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Madman
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 34 |
'lo!
Since no more bugs were reported: 1.0 RC1 out.
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