HippoPlayer v2.48

koobo · 31 October 2021, 07:41

Updated Hippo available:
https://aminet.net/mus/play/hippoplayerupdate.lha

In this one: support for even more exotic music formats, an extra large pattern scope for Protracker, some fixes and minor changes. Details here:
https://aminet.net/mus/play/hippoplayerupdate.readme

kriz · 31 October 2021, 10:00

Excellent, thx !!

Viceroy · 31 October 2021, 10:17

Well Done!

RoC · 31 October 2021, 10:49

Many thanks, so many new formats!

Does it play the hipc as well (crunched hip)?

Wachi · 31 October 2021, 12:12

tomcat666 · 31 October 2021, 13:14

Very nice! the scope works in multimonitor support as long as ALL modules that are played support it. Once a module that doesn't support the scope is loaded the next module that supports it does not enable it anymore.
So if you play modules in random order as soon as a module that doesn't support visualization is played the scope stops working all together (until you click on the scope of course).

daxb · 31 October 2021, 16:13

Just for the interest. Is it possible to have a pattern scope for OctaMed modules?

koobo · 31 October 2021, 21:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by RoC

Many thanks, so many new formats!

Does it play the hipc as well (crunched hip)?

Hippel-COSO is supported, apparently already in v2.07 (26.6.1995)

DisasterIncarna · 01 November 2021, 01:39

are the eagleplayer plugins baked in as standard? or are we supposed to copy over something like the eagleplayer engines/eagleplayers folders for those features? also great stuff, love the updates, tho i was briefly in panic mode when i noticed my mods playing in slightly fast forward mode, thought it was due to using ahi output or something, turned out it was because of using vblank timing, unticked it and im back to normal, now stuff like bloodmoney-ingame.mod doesnt sound like its having an epileptic fit.

Nitpicking here as well but is there something being drawn on screen in text at the bottom/left of the window on launch? when i start HIP, i see some text overlaying the window which vanishes when i deselect the window then reselect it, as shown in my expertly circled picture below.

koobo · 01 November 2021, 05:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by DisasterIncarna

are the eagleplayer plugins baked in as standard? or are we supposed to copy over something like the eagleplayer engines/eagleplayers folders for those features?

They are included in the accompanying data file.

Quote:

Nitpicking here as well but is there something being drawn on screen in text at the bottom/left of the window on launch? when i start HIP, i see some text overlaying the window which vanishes when i deselect the window then reselect it, as shown in my expertly circled picture below.

That seems to be the top part of the favorites button being visible when the window is minified using RMB+Pr. It's a bug!

nikosidis · 01 November 2021, 08:27

Nice to see updates to Hippo Player. Thanks

AmiClassic · 01 November 2021, 19:40

Next bug?:

Here video showing this case: video - critical moment 0:40 - on/off playlist (RMB on PR)

P.S. As you can see in video, I'm using XEN font (I don't like TOPAZ and I got rid of it), I hope that someday HiP will be font sensitive

koobo · 01 November 2021, 20:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by AmiClassic

Next bug?:

Here video showing this case: video - critical moment 0:40 - on/off playlist (RMB on PR)

Yeah, another bug found

Quote:

P.S. As you can see in video, I'm using XEN font (I don't like TOPAZ and I got rid of it), I hope that someday HiP will be font sensitive

It seems so. The pattern scope at least looks quite bad!
I wonder how you achieved this, hippo tries to only use fixed 8x8 fonts.

DisasterIncarna · 02 November 2021, 02:36

I recall a patch somewhere, that allows you to use non proportional fonts as system/fixed width fonts, i recall having a nightmare with that as it trashes loads of stuff including HIP and Filemaster3. I just use a font called FIXED and it looks good enough for now, still "topazy'like" but not as terrible looking.

Also heres a vid showing something im not sure is even a bug, the scopes/etc all work fine, but when you switch to AHI mode, the scopes dont function at all until you disable AHI and reload a song using good old paula.

[ Show youtube player ]

koobo · 02 November 2021, 06:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by DisasterIncarna

I recall a patch somewhere, that allows you to use non proportional fonts as system/fixed width fonts, i recall having a nightmare with that as it trashes loads of stuff including HIP and Filemaster3. I just use a font called FIXED and it looks good enough for now, still "topazy'like" but not as terrible looking.

I just tried and it seems that at least on kick3.0 the Prefs font selector does not seem to work, if you select a font from the font requester, it will not be used in Hippo even though it should.

Quote:

Also heres a vid showing something im not sure is even a bug, the scopes/etc all work fine, but when you switch to AHI mode, the scopes dont function at all until you disable AHI and reload a song using good old paula.

This is a feature, AHI bypasses all the internal stuff such as scopes.

DisasterIncarna · 02 November 2021, 07:15

Does that mean HIP deliberatly ignores the workbench font then? as in if we dont manually pick a new font then HIP just defaults itsself to topaz and doesnt even look at what workbench uses?

koobo · 02 November 2021, 08:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by DisasterIncarna

Does that mean HIP deliberatly ignores the workbench font then? as in if we dont manually pick a new font then HIP just defaults itsself to topaz and doesnt even look at what workbench uses?

Hippo provides font selection internally in HippoPrefs, it does not look for font settings in system preferences. I guess one reason is that the UI has been designed with a 8x8 fixed font in mind, it doesn't really work very well generally with fonts.

But as I noticed, there seems to be a problem as I can't change the font to another 8x8 font (other than topaz) even if I try. I was able to fix this, though

koobo · 02 November 2021, 08:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by daxb

Just for the interest. Is it possible to have a pattern scope for OctaMed modules?

It is possible, it's just a question of effort and whether it is an interesting challenge

AmiClassic · 02 November 2021, 09:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by koobo

I wonder how you achieved this...

For many years I using in my system this patch: http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/TopazPatch, I never had any problems with it

DisasterIncarna · 02 November 2021, 10:26

im using the replacetopaz option in MCP and using FIXED font as a replacement, works ok.

31 October 2021, 07:41	#1
koobo Registered User Join Date: Sep 2019 Location: Finland Posts: 360	HippoPlayer v2.48 Updated Hippo available: https://aminet.net/mus/play/hippoplayerupdate.lha In this one: support for even more exotic music formats, an extra large pattern scope for Protracker, some fixes and minor changes. Details here: https://aminet.net/mus/play/hippoplayerupdate.readme

02 November 2021, 07:15	#16
DisasterIncarna Registered User Join Date: Oct 2021 Location: England Posts: 1,170	Does that mean HIP deliberatly ignores the workbench font then? as in if we dont manually pick a new font then HIP just defaults itsself to topaz and doesnt even look at what workbench uses? Last edited by DisasterIncarna; 02 November 2021 at 07:16. Reason: typos galore

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31 October 2021, 10:00	#2
kriz Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: No(R)Way Age: 41 Posts: 3,185	Excellent, thx !!

31 October 2021, 10:17	#3
Viceroy Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sunderland Posts: 946	Well Done!

31 October 2021, 10:49	#4
RoC Registered User Join Date: May 2011 Location: Italy Posts: 214	Many thanks, so many new formats! Does it play the hipc as well (crunched hip)?

31 October 2021, 12:12	#5
Wachi Registered User Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Madrid Posts: 141

31 October 2021, 13:14	#6
tomcat666 Retro Freak Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Slovenia Age: 51 Posts: 1,647	Very nice! the scope works in multimonitor support as long as ALL modules that are played support it. Once a module that doesn't support the scope is loaded the next module that supports it does not enable it anymore. So if you play modules in random order as soon as a module that doesn't support visualization is played the scope stops working all together (until you click on the scope of course).

31 October 2021, 16:13	#7
daxb Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Germany Posts: 3,303	Just for the interest. Is it possible to have a pattern scope for OctaMed modules?

01 November 2021, 01:39	#9
DisasterIncarna Registered User Join Date: Oct 2021 Location: England Posts: 1,170	are the eagleplayer plugins baked in as standard? or are we supposed to copy over something like the eagleplayer engines/eagleplayers folders for those features? also great stuff, love the updates, tho i was briefly in panic mode when i noticed my mods playing in slightly fast forward mode, thought it was due to using ahi output or something, turned out it was because of using vblank timing, unticked it and im back to normal, now stuff like bloodmoney-ingame.mod doesnt sound like its having an epileptic fit. Nitpicking here as well but is there something being drawn on screen in text at the bottom/left of the window on launch? when i start HIP, i see some text overlaying the window which vanishes when i deselect the window then reselect it, as shown in my expertly circled picture below.

01 November 2021, 08:27	#11
nikosidis Registered User Join Date: Jan 2020 Location: oslo/norway Posts: 1,607	Nice to see updates to Hippo Player. Thanks

01 November 2021, 19:40	#12
AmiClassic Registered User Join Date: Feb 2020 Location: PL Posts: 157	Next bug?: Here video showing this case: video - critical moment 0:40 - on/off playlist (RMB on PR) P.S. As you can see in video, I'm using XEN font (I don't like TOPAZ and I got rid of it), I hope that someday HiP will be font sensitive

02 November 2021, 02:36	#14
DisasterIncarna Registered User Join Date: Oct 2021 Location: England Posts: 1,170	I recall a patch somewhere, that allows you to use non proportional fonts as system/fixed width fonts, i recall having a nightmare with that as it trashes loads of stuff including HIP and Filemaster3. I just use a font called FIXED and it looks good enough for now, still "topazy'like" but not as terrible looking. Also heres a vid showing something im not sure is even a bug, the scopes/etc all work fine, but when you switch to AHI mode, the scopes dont function at all until you disable AHI and reload a song using good old paula. [ Show youtube player ]

02 November 2021, 10:26	#20
DisasterIncarna Registered User Join Date: Oct 2021 Location: England Posts: 1,170	im using the replacetopaz option in MCP and using FIXED font as a replacement, works ok.

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