Deliplayer Development Stopped - Project Dead

[Ultron]

This is a great shame, i love amiga tunes, mods, and chiptunes, and let's face it Deliplayer was the go to solution, despite it's many shortcomings on the PC platform...

http://www.deliplayer.com/forum2/php...opic.php?t=327

Originally Posted by Jon

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:58 pm Post subject: Upset with Deliplayer progress. /its DEAD

I am upset with the progress of dp2 / 3

I have been attempting to contact both Florian and Peter over the past 6 months with no reply.

My angle on the project has always been that its great to support all the formats but lets build on that and concentrate on the future requirements. And 'dumb up the UI' so winampers can use the program .......

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I would never have considered posting the above had it not been for the total silance (even to me) of Florian and Peter about the progress (or lack of) of the dp project over the past 6/12/24 months.

I still regard deliplayer as one of the best audio p[layers for Windows...... but I have to admit I am very upset that the project has ground to a halt in such a way.

I don't know what else to say?! !!!!!! ???????????????

I'd wish someone would continue the project, at least to fix it's bugs and perfomance issues, since most formats are already supported. The app is unfortunately pretty bloated, still.

I'd really wish they'd release this into Open Source if they abandoned all development, it's a shame to think we're now stuck with the current version(s) and the program simply went to the trashcan. Or at least hand down the sources to someone so they don't get lost forever. We simply don't have any other program the caliber of Deliplayer for Amiga tunes.

[Photon]

"Another Free Program Off-line."

[quahappy]

Sad news indeed. I use Deliplayer a lot, not only for Amiga mods, but mp3 too. Who knows, given the popularity of this audio player, and constant pressure from the public, the Open Source may get released at some time or another...

[Ultron]

What's worrying is that the webmaster\maintainer isn't even able to get a hold of the two programmers. I hope this doesn't get lost forever

[alexh]

There is an opportunity for someone to port UADE to Windows (again) then and get it in as part of the regular build tree

[Mr_Modem]

Until someone ports UADE you can use XMplay and the amazing plugin delix.

Supported formats (121): Action Amics Soundtool, AHX, AM Composer, AMOS Music
Bank, Art & Magic player, Art Of Noise (4 voices), Beathoven Synthesizer, Ben
Daglish player, Ben Daglish SID player, Blade Packer, Chip Tracker, Cinemaware
player, Core Design player, CustomMade, Darius Zendeh player, Dave Lowe new
player, Dave Lowe player (DAVELOWE), Dave Lowe player (UNCLEART), David
Whittaker player, Delta Music 1.0, Delta Music 2.0, Desire player, DigiBooster,
Digital Sonix & Chrome player, Digital Sound Studio, Dynamic Synthesizer, Ear
Ache, Editeur Musical Sequentiel, Fashion Tracker, "Forgotten Worlds" player,
Fred Editor, Fred Gray player, Future Composer 1.3, Future Composer 1.4,
Future Composer BSI, Future Player, GlueMon, Howie Davies player, Images Music
System, In Stereo 1.0, In Stereo 2.0, Infogrames player, JamCracker, Janko
Mrsic-Flogel player, Jason C. Brooke player, Jason Page player, Jeroen Tel
player, Jochen Hippel player, Jochen Hippel 7V player, Jochen Hippel COSO player,
Kris Hatlelid player, Leggless Music Editor, Magnetic Fields packer, Major Tom
player, Maniacs of Noise player, Mark Cooksey player, Mark Cooksey old player,
Mark II Sound System, Martin Walker player, MED/OctaMED (4 voices), MED/OctaMED
(8 voices), Medley, Mike Davies player, MMDC, Mugician, Mugician II, Music
Assembler, NovoTrade packer, Paul Robotham player, Paul Shields player, Paul
Summers player, Peter Verswyvelen packer, Pierre Adane packer, PowerTracker,
Professional Sound Artists player, PumaTracker, Quadra Composer, Richard Joseph
player, Riff Raff player, Rob Hubbard player, Rob Hubbard ST player, Scumm player,
Sean Connolly player, Sean Conran player, SIDMon 1.0, SIDMon 2.0, Silmarils player,
Sonic Arranger, Sonic Arranger packed, Sonix, Soprol, Sound Master, Sound Player,
Soundcontrol, Soundfactory, SoundFX, SoundImages, SoundMon 2.0, SoundMon 2.2,
Special FX, Speedy A1 System, Speedy System, Steve Barrett player, Steve Turner
player, SunTronic, SynthDream, Synthesis, SynthPack, SynTracker, TFMX, TFMX 7V,
TFMX Pro, The Musical Enlightenment, Thomas Hermann player, Tim Follin player,
TomyTracker, TronicTracker, Voodoo Supreme Synthesizer, Wally Beben player, YMST
and custom players.

Plus Xmplay can use winamp plugins so there's a lot of other non-amiga formats supported to.

[Qube]

Delix and XMPlay work great, and both are still under development I think.

[Adderly]

Damn, now i know why Deliplayer V2.50 is beta for nearly 2 years without progress...

[Ultron]

Actually i'd totally forgot XMplay, and i wasn't aware Delix existed! Nice!

[eternalcrusader]

Does any PC music player software support Rob Hubbard Old (.rho) format ?

[jaycee]

deliplayer supports anything that has a player extension... Wanted Team have done a crapload of DeliTracker/EaglePlayer players that can be used with DeliPlayer.

I'm also quite annoyed that Deliplayer seems to have ground to a halt. Personally though, I think writing a whole player wasn't a good idea - what would have been better would have been to write a portable library that handles playback of Amiga formats, similar to UADE.

[alexh]

Deliplayer was a commercial product when it started. I actually paid my $25 or whatever it was.

Several years later it became shareware/freeware/cardware or whatever it is now.

This is why it is a whole player, they tried to adopt the Nullsoft (WinAMP) approach and create a Mediaplayer that rivaled / surpassed the others that people might pay for.

For a small time back at the start it looked like they may actually do it... then the bottom dropped out of the Market. WinAMP became free, M$ launched XP with WMP9. Their skins / visualisations looked dated, their pay-for model looked very shakey. It is not surprising that they have stopped development (or at least made it a hobby project).

This is their baby, I wouldnt open source my 'lifes work'... at least not if there was the slightest chance that I would work on it again. Or that it may make me some income.