BZR Player - a new music player for Win - Page 46

ancalimon · 29 November 2015, 23:33

Is this still alive?

bLAZER · 02 December 2015, 21:02

Yes it is...hasn't been a lot of development lately though.

bcass · 12 December 2015, 16:26

I recently downgraded from XP to Win8.1 and was devastated that DeliPlayer2 no longer worked. Finding this new player has been a life saver. Seems a bit flakey at the moment, but hopefully development will continue to make it more stable. Either way, fantastic job bLAZER.

I realise that the feature requests part of your site isn't open yet, but here's a few minor ones from me:

1. Add support for the FadeLength property found in AY files. No AY player has ever supported this setting. Its intended function is to indicate how long a track will volume fade-out once the SongLength had been reached.

2. The Dumper property in AY files doesn't seem to be being read correctly by your player as it is blank for all the AY files I tried (downloaded from Project AY).

bLAZER · 14 December 2015, 00:41

Thanks for the criticism. I'll take a look at your requests!

OddbOd · 09 February 2016, 02:11

Sorry to divert proceedings, but these earlier points got buried and the MIDI problems should be relatively trivial to fix.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kkgarbod

Seems Midi's isn't working 100%

I've got a few that Work and a lot that doesn't :P (some added to test with )

The attached .mid files are in RIFF-RMID format, BZR already plays RIFF-WAVE with PCM or ADPCM contents so FMOD probably supports the format as-is. Skipping the RIFF chunk by searching for MThd would also work. The note data is definitely valid as I did a quick test first playing them in foobar2000, then stripped off the header and had them playing in BZR just fine.

@meynaf: Are the files that won't play for you RIFF wrapped as well?

Quote:

Originally Posted by kkgarbod

While on the subject of Midis could a extension be added? Miz it's a compressed Midi file

They're nothing fancy or exotic just gzipped RIFF-RMIDs, you already have zlib to do the decompression so when BZR opens a MIZ file just check for the gzip signature (1F 8B), the rest you know already. Again the two files played fine, I did the same test as above with the added step of unpacking them first as foobar2000 doesn't support this format either, as far as I know it was only ever implemented in WinAMP.

Quote:

Originally Posted by mld

http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/The_Chaos_Engine seems to work with bzr104 here...

That's strange because only rjp.menu plays in bzr104 for me. BZR apparently behaves a bit like a stock installation of DeliPlayer i.e. only the first sub-song is evaluated but since that happens to be empty, BZR just sits there "playing" silence until you manually skip to the second. I also tried BZR with some rips from Cannon Fodder and got results that were the same but also different depending on which file I tried. rjp.WARX4 & rjp.JON play 100% fine, but they're not comparable because their first sub-songs aren't empty. All of the level tunes failed to play in BZR and again had empty first sub-songs, so at least the behaviour is consistent. UADE was used as reference during testing and continues to perform like a champion.

My thanks and best wishes to bLAZER, Michael and Heikki.

meynaf · 09 February 2016, 10:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by OddbOd

@meynaf: Are the files that won't play for you RIFF wrapped as well?

Nope. All general midi i have play correctly on current bzr. Only the xmi don't play (and they are not riff wrapped).

bLAZER · 19 June 2016, 20:35

VGMPlay is now working in BZR Player which means support for many different arcade, console and computer systems in .vgm.

[ Show youtube player ]

bLAZER · 17 August 2016, 00:20

Lots of work behind the scenes in progress. Upgraded to latest QT-version and MingW. A bunch of sound libraries also upgraded. VGMPlay is now working properly. Hoping to release a new version pretty soon when I get everything working again with the new compiler.

tomcat666 · 22 December 2016, 10:58

Any news about the release with VGM support ?

bagpipes · 16 March 2017, 21:23

Any news about new release???

bLAZER · 01 April 2017, 22:01

Sorry about the delay. Had some font issues with QT (C++ library) so that the pattern view looks like crap. I'll try to finish the new release soon.

bLAZER · 28 March 2018, 20:24

I'm back! QT apparently dropped support for bitmap fonts in Windows so I've had to rewrite a lot of the pattern views. But is going pretty good so far! So BZR Player may see a new release in the not so distant future.

bLAZER · 03 April 2018, 21:26

There! All pattern views are now looking exactly like before. So now let's pack things up and see if we can get a new release this month.

vulture · 04 April 2018, 08:32

Great news, will the new version support vgm?

AMIGASYSTEM · 04 April 2018, 10:04

@bLAZER
Exists or there will never be a version OS3 of BZR Player?

bLAZER · 04 April 2018, 23:24

@vulture Yes, it's already there, vgm with arcade chips etc.
@OS3, what's that? AmigaOS?

vulture · 05 April 2018, 09:41

Strange , I tried some vgm files the other day , but couldn't replay it. Interested to send you the files?

AMIGASYSTEM · 05 April 2018, 10:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by bLAZER

@OS3, what's that? AmigaOS?

Yes, given the amount of supported formats, it would be very useful on Amiga OS, in particular on Amiga OS RTG

bLAZER · 05 April 2018, 19:47

@vulture Sorry, I meant the version I'm working on.
@AMIGASYSTEM Sorry, but that's way over my head.

vulture · 06 April 2018, 02:06

Ah great! Thx m8!

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29 November 2015, 23:33	#901
ancalimon Supernormal Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Istanbul / Turkey Age: 43 Posts: 1,410	Is this still alive?

02 December 2015, 21:02	#902
bLAZER Awesome to the max Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Gothenburg / Sweden Age: 47 Posts: 1,006	Yes it is...hasn't been a lot of development lately though.

12 December 2015, 16:26	#903
bcass Registered User Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Island of Dots Posts: 71	I recently downgraded from XP to Win8.1 and was devastated that DeliPlayer2 no longer worked. Finding this new player has been a life saver. Seems a bit flakey at the moment, but hopefully development will continue to make it more stable. Either way, fantastic job bLAZER. I realise that the feature requests part of your site isn't open yet, but here's a few minor ones from me: 1. Add support for the FadeLength property found in AY files. No AY player has ever supported this setting. Its intended function is to indicate how long a track will volume fade-out once the SongLength had been reached. 2. The Dumper property in AY files doesn't seem to be being read correctly by your player as it is blank for all the AY files I tried (downloaded from Project AY).

14 December 2015, 00:41	#904
bLAZER Awesome to the max Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Gothenburg / Sweden Age: 47 Posts: 1,006	Thanks for the criticism. I'll take a look at your requests!

19 June 2016, 20:35	#907
bLAZER Awesome to the max Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Gothenburg / Sweden Age: 47 Posts: 1,006	VGMPlay is now working in BZR Player which means support for many different arcade, console and computer systems in .vgm. [ Show youtube player ]

17 August 2016, 00:20	#908
bLAZER Awesome to the max Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Gothenburg / Sweden Age: 47 Posts: 1,006	Lots of work behind the scenes in progress. Upgraded to latest QT-version and MingW. A bunch of sound libraries also upgraded. VGMPlay is now working properly. Hoping to release a new version pretty soon when I get everything working again with the new compiler.

22 December 2016, 10:58	#909
tomcat666 Retro Freak Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Slovenia Age: 51 Posts: 1,647	Any news about the release with VGM support ?

16 March 2017, 21:23	#910
bagpipes Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Poland Posts: 93	Any news about new release???

01 April 2017, 22:01	#911
bLAZER Awesome to the max Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Gothenburg / Sweden Age: 47 Posts: 1,006	Sorry about the delay. Had some font issues with QT (C++ library) so that the pattern view looks like crap. I'll try to finish the new release soon.

28 March 2018, 20:24	#912
bLAZER Awesome to the max Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Gothenburg / Sweden Age: 47 Posts: 1,006	I'm back! QT apparently dropped support for bitmap fonts in Windows so I've had to rewrite a lot of the pattern views. But is going pretty good so far! So BZR Player may see a new release in the not so distant future.

03 April 2018, 21:26	#913
bLAZER Awesome to the max Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Gothenburg / Sweden Age: 47 Posts: 1,006	There! All pattern views are now looking exactly like before. So now let's pack things up and see if we can get a new release this month.

04 April 2018, 08:32	#914
vulture Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Athens , Greece Posts: 1,840	Great news, will the new version support vgm?

04 April 2018, 10:04	#915
AMIGASYSTEM Registered User Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Brindisi (Italy) Age: 70 Posts: 8,248	@bLAZER Exists or there will never be a version OS3 of BZR Player?

04 April 2018, 23:24	#916
bLAZER Awesome to the max Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Gothenburg / Sweden Age: 47 Posts: 1,006	@vulture Yes, it's already there, vgm with arcade chips etc. @OS3, what's that? AmigaOS?

05 April 2018, 09:41	#917
vulture Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Athens , Greece Posts: 1,840	Strange , I tried some vgm files the other day , but couldn't replay it. Interested to send you the files?

05 April 2018, 19:47	#919
bLAZER Awesome to the max Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Gothenburg / Sweden Age: 47 Posts: 1,006	@vulture Sorry, I meant the version I'm working on. @AMIGASYSTEM Sorry, but that's way over my head.

06 April 2018, 02:06	#920
vulture Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Athens , Greece Posts: 1,840	Ah great! Thx m8!

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