BZR Player - a new music player for Win

[bLAZER]

OK, I found a temporary solution for XP-users: Remove/Move codec_libxmp.dll, that's the plugin which is causing the crash. This means libmodplug will be used to play mods, which handles less formats and with less accuracy.

I'm guessing there's some kind of illegal instruction/memory address which is only triggered in XP. I'll have a look at it.

[bLAZER]

For the Windows XP users, the attached file should fix the crashes.

Unzip and put it in the plugin dir overwriting the old one.

[kkgarbod]

Originally Posted by bLAZER

For the Windows XP users, the attached file should fix the crashes.

Unzip and put it in the plugin dir overwriting the old one.

Thanx Blazer. everything works But I did find one corner case where a bug hides. When you go from a ahx to another music format the player will close itself. but not the other way around, also don't happen with the other formats I have

[DH]

Thanks for the updated .dll file, SID's now work again \o/ Haven't ried anything else but tbh this is really coming along mate

Wonder how long it'll be before you overtake DeliPlayer 2

[tomcat666]

Originally Posted by DH

Thanks for the updated .dll file, SID's now work again \o/ Haven't ried anything else but tbh this is really coming along mate

Wonder how long it'll be before you overtake DeliPlayer 2

The only thing keeping DeiPlayer2 in front is the CUST support

[bLAZER]

@kkgarbod I can confirm that playing an AHX and then another file crashes most of the time (not always though), again this is only on XP. Will have a look.

@tomcat666 .cust means emulating an Amiga, so unfortunately that format is very complex and not something I see supported in the near future.

[OddbOd]

Originally Posted by DH

Thanks for the updated .dll file, SID's now work again \o/ Haven't ried anything else but tbh this is really coming along mate

Unfortunately not all of them, stereo SIDs still freeze BZR and are one reason why I suggested adding support for a more modern replayer. Example tune attached for reference.

Originally Posted by tomcat666

The only thing keeping DeiPlayer2 in front is the CUST support

AFAIK UADE is the only other player that supports CUST replay, it is possible to build it as a plugin as evidenced by the very obscure (and conceptually similar to BZR) Game Music Gear MX for the PSP.

[bLAZER]

Originally Posted by OddbOd

Unfortunately not all of them, stereo SIDs still freeze BZR and are one reason why I suggested adding support for a more modern replayer. Example tune attached for reference.

Thanks for the example, will have a look at the other SID library soon.

Originally Posted by OddbOd

AFAIK UADE is the only other player that supports CUST replay, it is possible to build it as a plugin as evidenced by the very obscure (and conceptually similar to BZR) Game Music Gear MX for the PSP.

I didn't think it was impossible... but it may be very hard work. Good to know someone succeeded anyways

[bLAZER]

Good news, I managed to get libsidplaypf working in BZR Player. I haven't it really but that Odyssey_2SID.sid not works fine

I'm not sure how stable/good this lib is, and if I should replace the old sidlib or keep it as an alternative.

[bLAZER]

Time for a new release:

0.96

New features:

• Pattern View for Fasttracker 2 (.xm)
• Pattern View for Fasttracker 1 (.ft/.mod)
• Pattern View for MED (.med/.mmd0)
• You can now manually select output devices (ASIO, DirectSound, OpenAL, WASAPI, WinMM)
• New engine for playing .sid files which should be more accurate
• .cue files support
• Option to minimize to system tray
• Plays OptimFROG Lossless
  

Bug fixes:

• A bug in libxmp caused most formats to crash the player in Windows XP
• Chiptracker and AHX fontsizes where mixed up in the settings
• Some tooltips was wrong
• Some memory leaks
  

Get BZR Player 0.96 here (And join the Facebook page)

[lesta_smsc]

Great news! Time to update

Any player you'd recommend for Android?

[bLAZER]

Never tried Android... been an Iphone user for 4 years... probably buying a new phone soon and that will probably be Android though...

[lesta_smsc]

Originally Posted by bLAZER

Never tried Android... been an Iphone user for 4 years... probably buying a new phone soon and that will probably be Android though...

What do you use on iphone or is a beta port of BZR for that!?

Hopefully your acquisition of an Android phone will change the fate of phone users like me... forever!

[bLAZER]

For those of you who don't use Facebook, here's a little heads-up on what's done at the moment for the next version:

Pattern view for three more PC Trackers: ImpulseTracker 2, Composer 669, Ultra Tracker
Equalizer

And some bugs fixed.

[bLAZER]

Coming up next, VU Meters: [ Show youtube player ]

[Titler]

I recently upgraded to Win7 and was struggling to get deliplayer to work under the new OS: In the end I gave up when it struggled to play all the files it used to do, even from the old installation, and started looking for more modern players to listen to all my old Amiga music.

I found this player, and reviews seemed to be good. However, I have to say I HATE the installer. It tries to install countless bloatware crap, and doesn't give the option to skip the first example of it. The only way to get just the player is to click the Red X, read carefully the pop up message, and then select Skip... it even has a check box to ask to redownload when Windows next boots! Shocking cheek. Yes you can click out of it, but it leaves an extremely nasty taste in my mouth, sorry. Sort that out please.

I finally got the media player working without anything else, and then I run into a problem. Interestingly it's the same problem as I had before 7 years ago with deliplayer;

http://www.exotica.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=692

Namely, certain games don't play at all (Wings, IK+) others only play the sound samples not the tunes, or only the first song on the list (Lemmings, Shadow of the Beast). I've redownloaded the lhz from Exotica and that's not the issue. So does anyone know how to replicate the solutions found for Deliplayer above to the new BZR please?

[bLAZER]

I know the installer is nasty and tries to trick you to install other stuff too... you'll just have to be careful. I'll see how long I'll keep it.

Yes, certain games doesn't play at all because all formats aren't supported.

About Beast (Whittaker format), there currently is an issue with the subsongs. You can listen to them if you change subsongs manually. If you however let a song play till the end it will skip the rest.

[bLAZER]

Time for a new release!

0.97

New features:

• Equalizer
• VU Meters in pattern view for lots of formats (with same look as in the original software)
• Find files in playlist (Find-button in playlist or Ctrl+F)
• Pattern view for ImpulseTracker 2 (.it)
• Pattern view for Composer 669
• Pattern view for Ultra Tracker
• Pattern view for TakeTracker
• Window titles
  

Bug fixes:

• Quite a few .it-songs failed to load
• Some C-64 sids was silent because of missing rom files
• Files with unicode names wouldn't load from command line/double click/sockets
• Limit songs of unknown length also affected web streams
• Arrow icon missing on combo boxes
  

Get BZR Player 0.97 here (And join the Facebook page)

[Greyfox]

beautiful work..thank you Blazer..you rock fella

[bLAZER]

I've removed the installer (with toolbar etc.). Zip is back!