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[raina]

Seconded.

[r]

a small bug i noticed:

when "follow current track" is checked for the "Extended List", it doesn't seem to work when you randomize a track.

also the same thing applies when you "Find" a track and double-click one of the entries in the "Find track(s)" panel.

other than that, keep up the good work!

[Ian @ un4seen]

I have just finished uploading the file :"Covenant - United States of Mind" . I hope it helps.

The embedded cue seems to be working ok here. Are you sure that you're using the latest FLAC plugin? (rev.4)

If I enable directory monitoring for my +/- 3,000 track My Music directory, it will crash.

To get some clues about it, please upload your drwtsn32.log file...

   ftp.un4seen.com/incoming

Going fullscreen with Rabbithole still closes XMPlay here .

So it does. Here's another update to try...

   www.un4seen.com/stuff/xmplay.exe

going to options>plugins crashes when loading 64th Note v1.2 beta 3. 
This does not happen with beta 1 of that plugin.
http://www.hcs64.com/usf/

Looking at the source, that's caused by it using a Winamp message (IPC_GETINIDIRECTORY) that XMPlay doesn't support. The update above has a little change to stop it doing that.

The sensitive ramping does not seem to be on when I'm using the WAV writer and seperating by instrument. I get a load of clicks that are not heard in the WAV writer output when I'm simply outputting the whole tune.

Please upload an example file that's particularly affected (and mention the instrument number too ), to reproduce the problem here...

   ftp.un4seen.com/incoming

Btw, sensitive ramping only comes into play at the start of samples, not the end.

One small (well, maybe not small <G>) buglet with the new version of the MIDI plugin: when clicking on the "Add" button (or clicking on any of the existing patches to replace them), the open SoundFont dialog box doesn't appear at all (?).

That's strange, I can't reproduce that here. What Windows version are you using?

I doubt that the folowing is a bug (but rather my slloooooowww PCs <G>), but enabling the MIDI plugin's reverb and chorus options makes the MIDI files (that have those controllers embedded in them) almost unplayable. Sound is extremely choppy, even with XMPlay's main reverb disabled.

Does that happen even with only a few notes playing? To check if it's a CPU issue, you could see what Task Manager says about that. Also, what Output settings are you using?

Btw, how slow is sloooooooow?

when "follow current track" is checked for the "Extended List", it doesn't seem to work when you randomize a track.

also the same thing applies when you "Find" a track and double-click one of the entries in the "Find track(s)" panel.

I can't reproduce that here, so please upload your XMPLAY.INI file, in case it's some other setting causing it...

   ftp.un4seen.com/incoming/

[Skatoony]

I'm glad the random crashes in Vista 64-bit are gone with the newer version - got quite annoying with how many music modules I listen to each day 

Too bad there's no 64-bit XMPlay, but I gather it'll be rather pointless anyway

[Airon16]

The sensitive ramping does not seem to be on when I'm using the WAV writer and seperating by instrument. I get a load of clicks that are not heard in the WAV writer output when I'm simply outputting the whole tune.

Please upload an example file that's particularly affected (and mention the instrument number too ), to reproduce the problem here...

   ftp.un4seen.com/incoming

Btw, sensitive ramping only comes into play at the start of samples, not the end.

Done. The filename is
ClicksInSeperateInstrumentWAVWRITER_MickRippon_MR_HOUR.ZIP
and
ClicksInSeperateInstrumentWAVWRITER.txt

The instruments are 15,16 and 17. You'll find the most clicks there.

[amit]

I have just finished uploading the file :"Covenant - United States of Mind" . I hope it helps.

The embedded cue seems to be working ok here. Are you sure that you're using the latest FLAC plugin? (rev.4)

OK. I uprgaded the imput plugin and it is working fine.

Thanks.

[Barna]

Hi All
First, Congratulation on the release of XMPlay 3.4 it got even better :-)

Still, I have a small font/unicode problem here under Win2K.
On most skins (including the default one) I can't see any Unicode/non-ASCII characters. It's probably depending on my systems fonts but I don't really know which font's at fault and if I'm even able to change that font (may used by the OS).

I have made some screenshots which show the default and the iXMPlay skin on my system. Also the track info dialog is always unable to display the characters:

I'm still hoping for a user overridable font setting or something else that could fix that.

Other things I'd love to see would be a variable sizable playlist/queue panel in the default skin (it's a bit small horizontally I think atm) or mass-tagging not only in the library but also in the files themself.

But anyway, XMPlay became my main music player very fast, it's awesome.

Greetings from Switzerland,
Barna

[Skatoony]

Ok so I appear to have been wrong about the crashes under Vista - I've still got them at either the start or end of a file being played (any audio file) 

[PVTele]

If I enable directory monitoring for my +/- 3,000 track My Music directory, it will crash.

To get some clues about it, please upload your drwtsn32.log file...

   ftp.un4seen.com/incoming

Now that is remarkable - I had just downloaded your updated xmplay.exe, (also the newly updated Neutron skin and deleted xmp-ra.dll which wasn't working) when I read your post. So, I thought, let's enable dir monitoring, let it crash, and get that Dr Watson. Did so, clicked rescan, and everything worked fine. No crash, no Dr Watson. I've tried changing skins, playing a few files, and streams, and everything's fine. It found itself a few hundred files I'd missed adding manually, and it appears to be chugging along nicely.

To check it, I downloaded 6 tracks I'd been meaning to get anyway, and bang! there they were in the library immediately. Just like it says on the tin.

H'mm. Weird but nice - thanks anyway!

[Ian @ un4seen]

Done. The filename is
ClicksInSeperateInstrumentWAVWRITER_MickRippon_MR_HOUR.ZIP
and
ClicksInSeperateInstrumentWAVWRITER.txt

The instruments are 15,16 and 17. You'll find the most clicks there.

Here's an update to try...

   www.un4seen.com/stuff/xmplay.exe

Please let me know whether it helps.

Still, I have a small font/unicode problem here under Win2K.
On most skins (including the default one) I can't see any Unicode/non-ASCII characters. It's probably depending on my systems fonts but I don't really know which font's at fault and if I'm even able to change that font (may used by the OS).

I'm not really sure why that is. I can only guess that the Arial font on Win2K doesn't support Japanese characters?

Ok so I appear to have been wrong about the crashes under Vista - I've still got them at either the start or end of a file being played (any audio file) 

Do you have any details about the crash, eg. the location? Also, if you've not already done so, you could try removing all plugins, to see if it's one of them causing it.

Now that is remarkable - I had just downloaded your updated xmplay.exe, (also the newly updated Neutron skin and deleted xmp-ra.dll which wasn't working...

That might explain it. Another user had problems with XMP-RA crashing when monitoring a directory. To confirm whether that's the cause (and perhaps provide Fraggie with some clues if it is ), please try putting XMP-RA.DLL back, rescan the directory, and upload the drwtsn32.log file when/if it crashes.

[Pike84]

Ok, now XMPlay doesn't crash, but are there any chances of getting the visualization to actually work? It still closes after a second or so...

[Cris]

Ok, now XMPlay doesn't crash, but are there any chances of getting the visualization to actually work? It still closes after a second or so...

Are you talking about The Rabbit Hole visual? It works fine to me, both standalone and in Rappa.

[Airon16]

Done. The filename is
ClicksInSeperateInstrumentWAVWRITER_MickRippon_MR_HOUR.ZIP
and
ClicksInSeperateInstrumentWAVWRITER.txt

The instruments are 15,16 and 17. You'll find the most clicks there.

Here's an update to try...

   www.un4seen.com/stuff/xmplay.exe

Please let me know whether it helps.

There's a nice fadeoff after the noteoff now on each instrument I checked.
I've included a screenshot of an example from Instrument 17 of the example track.

Oh man. Awesome job. Thanks a lot !

 Airon

[Rich Nagel]

That's strange, I can't reproduce that here. What Windows version are you using?

Windows 98 SE.

Does that happen even with only a few notes playing? To check if it's a CPU issue, you could see what Task Manager says about that. Also, what Output settings are you using?

Yes, happens with only a few notes, although it's worse when more are playing. For output settings, what I've used previously with older versions (44k/16-bit/etc...).

Running Windows 98 SE, the Task Manager doesn't report CPU usage, I'll have to run the "resource meter" and get back to you on that one.

Btw, how slow is sloooooooow?

Extremely choppy, so much in fact, that you can't listen-to/enjoy the song. Like I posted previously, it's only when the MIDI plugin's reverb and chorus effects are enabled, not with XMPlay's main reverb slider.

[PVTele]

Now that is remarkable - I had just downloaded your updated xmplay.exe, (also the newly updated Neutron skin and deleted xmp-ra.dll which wasn't working...

That might explain it. Another user had problems with XMP-RA crashing when monitoring a directory. To confirm whether that's the cause (and perhaps provide Fraggie with some clues if it is ), please try putting XMP-RA.DLL back, rescan the directory, and upload the drwtsn32.log file when/if it crashes.

That was it! Dr Watson is waiting in your incoming directory...

[PVTele]

Just now removed xmp-ra.dll again, rescanned, no probs.  Over to you, Fraggie 

[Fraggie]

Just now removed xmp-ra.dll again, rescanned, no probs.  Over to you, Fraggie 

Alright, alright... Just tell me: do you have any RealAudio files (or .ram playlists) in your monitored dirs? Or per chance do you have some plain text files there?

[Barna]

Still, I have a small font/unicode problem here under Win2K.
On most skins (including the default one) I can't see any Unicode/non-ASCII characters. It's probably depending on my systems fonts but I don't really know which font's at fault and if I'm even able to change that font (may used by the OS).

I'm not really sure why that is. I can only guess that the Arial font on Win2K doesn't support Japanese characters?

That is indeed true... The 'official' Japanese supporting fonts which come with the OS are 'MS Gothic', 'MS Mincho', 'MS PGothic', 'MS PMincho' and 'MS UI Gothic' (sometimes they are listed with an @ like '@MS PGothic'). There is an optional huge font named 'Arial Unicode MS' available (shipped with some MS products and sold online, filename ARIALUNI.TTF) - but being named different it doesn't help being available in XMPlay. The Gothic and Mincho fonts are only installed in Win2k when Japanese is enabled in the locale settings.
I don't know which font is being used by the iXMPlay - but I'm guessing its MS PGothic whose ASCII chars looks a lot like Arial.
So for me I'd select 'MS PGothic' as a font for the skin if I had the option - or I would edit the skin myself if they werent in these kinda encrypted binary formats.

Thanks,
Barna

[PVTele]

Just now removed xmp-ra.dll again, rescanned, no probs.  Over to you, Fraggie 

Alright, alright... Just tell me: do you have any RealAudio files (or .ram playlists) in your monitored dirs? Or per chance do you have some plain text files there?

Yes, Fraggie, thanks... I do have some (just a handful) of .ra's and .ram's. I have one or two saved url files too, which I guess qualify as plain text files, since that's all they are really. Otherwise it's mostly mp3's, and oggs, with some wmas and just a few flacs. And a subdirectory with several hundred midis. Oh and there are one or two image files knocking about - album art and so on.

Thanks again! It would be good to be able to play everything through XMP...

Mike

[kragg]

I have replaced the .exe file with the "stuff" ;exe fioe, and removed the xmp-ra.dll, but it keeos crashing while scanning.
her eit s the error log