BZR Player - a new music player for Win

[bLAZER]

Originally Posted by meynaf

Just tried the new version. There were some good surprises (general midi, sndh, better protracker support).
But unfortunately, there is still no single software that will play everything I throw at it...

So here are the file types I have tried and did not work. Not sure what is supposed to be supported and what's not.

Not recognised :
(Amiga formats) (shouldn't UADE plugin be able to play these ?)
Hippel-COSO (normal and 7v)
Sonic Arranger
DT custom modules
Digital mugician
Maxtrax
P41/P61 (odd, as P60 are played)
Vectordean (aka Richard Joseph)
(Atari ST formats)
TCB tracker
Quartet ST
SoundFX ST
(PC formats)
Opus (both as straight opus and inside webm)
MP4 (with AAC inside)
Extended Midi (XMI) (okay, nobody plays that...)

Incomplete/incorrect support :
(Amiga formats)
MED (most are ok ; old MMD0 from push over does not play correctly)
(Atari ST formats)
Jochen Hippel ST (some ok, some not recognised, some mismatched with TFMX-Pro-TFHD)
(PC formats)
straight AAC (one played incorrect, one was not recognised)

I can provide files if needed. PM me in that case.

From the top of my head here's what I know:
Sonic Arranger should work
Digital mugician should work
Maxtrax requires stuff not implented by UADE yet, see here
Vectordean should work
Then there are a lot of bad rips. The rest of formats I'm aware of, but need to implement support for, OPUS, MP4 etc.

[bLAZER]

Originally Posted by hitm4n

I would add...

FaceTheMusic (FTM) Nothing can play these yet that i know of
MDAT mods (with seperate .smpl files)
TFX mods (with seperate .sam files)
HIPC - Crashes the player
HIP - uade - Some do some don't
FRED - Some do some don't
PT3 - Not working

FLS, FXM (both chip tune AY style mods - seem to be not supported)

FTC, STC, VTX, PSC, PT1, PT2, ASC, GTR, PSM
(All these formats use the ZXTune player)
Some will play, some crash, some do nothing. If i reload a tune sometimes it will play. If i play one tune using the ZXTune player, then try another it crashes. Play that crashed tune again and it plays. I would suggest theres a bug with loading this ZXTune routine, or the mod formats that utilise it. Stability in this player routine would add a great deal of format support.

SQT, STP - These load in uade player, seem to load and play, but no sound comes out? Length not calculated.

BZR is slowly becoming a one-stop player for all mod/chip/exotic formats, i really like the advancements with each test release Still, need the player window to remember the size i reduce it to though, so its nice and small

FaceTheMusic - Need more emulated stuff in UADE, see here
TFMX and HIP seems a bit buggy yes, but I know there are a lot of bad rips
ZXTune is the really buggy plugin that I'vetried to fix but haven't. Yet.

That it doesn't remember the window is actually a bug, and THAT will I fix.

[bLAZER]

Originally Posted by meynaf

Which brings another issue : we don't know how to name mods with separate samples so that the player will fetch them. Apparently it fails silently if the file is not found. Perhaps the player should display what it tries to load, the "log messages" area seems suited for this.
It is even possible some single-file mods fail to load because they have unexpected/missing prefix/suffix. How can we know ?

Seems like some replyers in UADE requires prefixes and other suffixes and other doesn't care. You can probably see this if you start BZR and capture the stderr output. But obviously both prefixes or suffixes should work ideally.

[meynaf]

Originally Posted by bLAZER

Sonic Arranger should work

Beware, as SA has several sub-formats. The ones i tried come from Ambermoon but without the replay routine inside.

Originally Posted by bLAZER

Then there are a lot of bad rips.

I know, but these aren't bad rips and work fine with DT2 on the miggy.

Originally Posted by bLAZER

TFMX and HIP seems a bit buggy yes, but I know there are a lot of bad rips

Not only. There are different player versions for these formats and this sometimes triggers incompatibillities. For example, same player can't play both Amberstar and Dragonflight mods correctly - I had to make an ugly patch in DT2's COSO replayer to fix effect replay differences.

Originally Posted by bLAZER

Seems like some replyers in UADE requires prefixes and other suffixes and other doesn't care. You can probably see this if you start BZR and capture the stderr output. But obviously both prefixes or suffixes should work ideally.

I don't even know how to capture stderr on windows
But if you know naming conventions that work, i can try them.
Otherwise i use :
. sa.songname
. mug.songname
. sng.songname + ins.songname
Anyway, it's clear that single-file mods shouldn't care at all about their file name...

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BZR Player 2.0.49 Alpha Released!
[New] Optional setting for scroller that is more retro, using sinus values from the font scaling (#379)
[New] Scroller will now always start from outside right border no matter what font and font scale used
[New] Customizable background color in visualizer
[Bug] Didn't remember last window size and position (#382)
[Bug] Nothing happened when clicking on browse button to choose a visualizer font (#351)
[Bug] An uninitialized variable in the starfield code caused BZR Player to sometimes crash at startup
[Bug] Removed navigation with left/right arrow keys in playlist since those are used for seeking (#381)
[Bug] UTF-8 wasn't supported in title window

Download BZR Player 2.0.49 Alpha

[Howardphilips]

Hello, thanks for this player, which get more functionalities over time.
It seems the latest versions of BZR Player cannot open lha files anymore. Is it on purpose?
Also, is there an option to rip modules to wav quick and easy, instead of setting the output to WAV and wait for the song to be read entirely?

[bLAZER]

Hi,
version 2 is rewritten from scratch, archive support isn't added yet but will be.
What you're asking for a "speed" rip. BZR Player 2 can already rip songs to separate wav's, but it will do it in real time, except after a while when it will speed up to about 2x play speed.

[Howardphilips]

Hi bLAZER, thank you for your answer. First of all, I am quite happy to see this player is being developed and improved. We need a good successor to DeliPlayer!
I had not read the history of v2's development. Happy to know that lha compatibility is planned to be back!
Regarding file ripping, I got the player to rip files but for Super Stardust it was a quite tedious task:
- let the player read the full module
- close it once a song is ripped
- reopen the player to do the next song, etc.
Maybe I got it wrong but if I try to rip several modules one one after the other with the same instance, I only get a big WAV file with the different modules I tried to rip.
Also, for Super Stardust, I had to edit the WAV file because the beginning and end of each song had a silent part of one or more minutes. But maybe I didn't get how to rip with this player (for this XMplayer is much easier to play with)

[bLAZER]

You must be using an old version. You only have to choose wavwriter. Then all songs you play will be saved to separate wavs from start to finish, even subsongs.

[Howardphilips]

Originally Posted by bLAZER

You must be using an old version. You only have to choose wavwriter. Then all songs you play will be saved to separate wavs from start to finish, even subsongs.

You must be right. I'll try with v247 or later when I have some more time. Thank you again!

[bLAZER]

BZR Player 2.0.50 Alpha Released!
[New] Shows meta data for Ogg files (#362)
[New] Shows meta data for FLAC files (#364)
[New] Double click on a playlist will change playlist and play the first song of that playlist (#392)
[New] Shows bitmap font thumbnail instead of path in preferences for visualizer (#383)
[New] 1 new bitmap font
[New] Shows samples for Paul Shields format
[Bug] Future Composer songs was played by UADE (Which meant no channel toggling or showing samples)
[Bug] Clicking browse visualizer font showed other components on top of the fonts (#384)
[Bug] Crashed when added an m3u and default playlist was empty and then clicked on play (#391)
[Bug] Padding zeroes on minutes if the track is one hour or longer (#388)
[Bug] Playcontrol components moved when current time went from 59:59 to 1:00:00 (#387)
[Bug] Changed window title of the preferences window to "Preferences" instead of "Dialog"
[Other] Rearranged font settings for visualizer in preferences
[Other] Updated MusicMaker playroutines for UADE
[Other] 3914 entries/files now in UADE songlength database
https://easyupload.io/zx3dgo

[Howardphilips]

Thanks for the update!
Fyi, I tried to open this file, to no avail: https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Darkseed

[bLAZER]

BZR Player 2.0.56 Alpha Released!
[New] Raster bars in visualizer
[New] Custom scrolltext in visualizer (#435)
[Bug] Crashed when visualizer was enabled and a mono sound was played (#434, #429)
[Bug] Didn't scroll to currently playing track in playlist (#432)
[Bug] Characters like å, ä, ö, ü (ISO Latin 1) are now shown correctly in id3 v1 tags (#436)
[Bug] Characters like å, ä, ö, ü (ISO Latin 1) are now shown correctly in id3 v2 tags (#390)
[Bug] UTF-8 didn't work in m3u/m3u8 playlists (#409)
[Other] Some songlengths fixed in UADE songlength database

https://easyupload.io/zg76dq

Discord: https://discord.gg/feEBce8cFe
Repository for issues: https://github.com/aargirakis/BZRPlayer/issues

[Frog]

thank you

[Howardphilips]

Always great to see an update for this app. Thank you so much

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BZR Player 2.0.57 Alpha Released!
[New] Opacity setting for raster bars (#444)
[New] Enable/disable UADE songlength database in settings (#445)
[New] Five more bitmap fonts added for the visualizer
[Bug] An unplayable file is now dimmed in the playlist (#425)
[Bug] Some labels in settings for sliders just showed "TextLabel" when you opened the settings (#439)
[Bug] "New Playlist"-button is never hidden when resized to a very small area
[Bug] songlengths.md5 was still not downloaded in root folder if the program was started by doubleclicking a file (#407)
[Bug] Stars in visualizer now has transparency, which means no more black stars with brighter background and a bit less flickering
[Bug] Vumeter peaks were sometimes missing for some channels (#438)
https://easyupload.io/cv6ssf

[bLAZER]

BZR Player 2.0.58 Alpha Released!

There was some irritating bugs in last version, so here's a new one!

[New] Changed default main color to green, like the icon
[Bug] Unplayable files wasn't marked as unplayable in the playlist if the last playlist item was unplayable
[Bug] Switch for UADE songlength database didn't worked due to forgot to add new UADE plugin to the release
[Bug] Songlengths database for C64-sids wasn't downloaded correctly
[Other] Changed fileformat text from "C-64 SID" to "C64 SID"
https://easyupload.io/u8ksyt

[bLAZER]

BZR Player 2.0.59 Alpha Released!
[New] Upgraded libopenmpt from 0.6.6 to 0.7.3 which means support for:

• Modified 8-channel MOD files from the DOS game Aleshar - The World Of Ice
• Composer 667 (CDFM/670)
• GTK and GT2 files from Gramouf Tracker
• A variant of the DSMI AMF format called DMF, as found in various DOS games distributed by Webfoot (Tronic, H2O, PowBall, etc.)
• DSM files from Dynamic Studio
• XMF files from the DOS game Imperium Galactica
• Hacked MOD format (DMF) from the game "Apocalypse Abyss"
• And a lot of bug fixes

[New] libopenmpt settings for filter, resampling, dithering (#454)
[New] At startup, the last played file when quit is now selected (#456)
[New] Eight more bitmap fonts added for the visualizer
[Bug] The method of highlighting the currenty playing file in the playlist had a few bugs (#433, #449, #450)
[Bug] Got rid of the ugly dotted outline in the playlists and current playlist (#457)
[Bug] Playlist column said "SUBSONGs" instead of "SUBSONG" (#446)
[Bug] Trackerview does not consume CPU when paused (#207)
[Bug] Accidently included settings.ini in last release (#447, #448)
[Bug] Stereo separation settings for libopenmpt didn't always behave correctly
[Bug] Mouse scroll affected starfield direction combobox in settings (#458)
[Other] Some optimizations to textprinter in visualizer
https://easyupload.io/bxsrsf

[Overflow]

Its been a while since I logged onto EAB, but just downloaded BZR Player 2, and love i