Readme: | Short: V2.05, comprehensive sound replayer Author: Jan Blumenthal & Henryk Richter Uploader: henryk.richter@gmx.net Type: mus/play
This is a long overdue update to the (still) most comprehensive music player on Amiga. Eagleplayer is a free package for playing multiple music formats. It is highly modular, such that even the main user interface is one of the plugins.
Demo video https://youtu.be/Kmzu6kFOuHg
CHANGES since last release (read the documentation/history for more details) - fixed Eagleplayer to work on 68000 again (some plugins are still 68020+) - mixed sound output completely rewritten: - AHI support - 8 Bit Amplifier is now considerably faster (even works on 68000) - unified 14 Bit Paula, Toccata and AHI codebase - choice between normal nearest neighbor mixing and polyphase sinc filtered resampling (68040/40, 68060 or Vampire required) - built-in click reduction algorithm - TRUE HIGH FIDELITY SOUND IN 14 Bit Paula MODE by means of a filter (highboost) which compensates for the Amiga reconstruction lowpass, enabling a near flat frequency response in a range of up to 18 kHz (tuned for 28 kHz and 44 kHz mixing rates) - FFT-Analyzer: - faster - less artifacts (skip internal mixing if mixing Amplifiers are active, apply Kaiser window to FFT inputs, higher dynamic range in spectrogram mode) - optional minimal mode for BifatGUI: reduced number of controls - included EMPYGui24 and EagleAMPGui in the Aminet distribution - ID3v2 support for MP3 (includes workaround for initialization issue in mpega.library) - Dirlistviewer/BifatGUI: direct mouse wheel support (without the need for freewheel)
NOTES - not much beta testing, please notify me about encountered issues - read the documentation about how to get the best possible performance and/or sound quality (TL;DR: use 8/14 Bit Amplifiers without extra soundcard, use Toccata Amplifier for soundcards with Toccata driver or emulation, use AHI on _fast_ Amigas with other soundcards) - by default, Eagleplayer will rely on file naming schemes to decide which external replayer to load (Eagleplayer.batch), so if it reports an unknown module type, it might be necessary to add the name pattern to the batch file - the Catalogs haven�t been updated. Some dialogs are outdated and the one or other term is English only. Sorry. - The installer has been removed for this release. You can just unpack the Archive somewhere to your harddrive and run EP. I`d suggest to have reqtools,AHI,XPK, guigfx-/render.library, mpega.library and asyncio.library installed.
FEATURE LIST (absolutely incomplete)
general - supports more than 150 music formats including most common sample formats (including CDDA, AIFF, WAV, Datatype, raw formats...) - completely hardware-independent replay system, redirecting the sound signal via custom 'amplifiers' to the audio hardware. - supports toccata.library for Toccata, Melody and Prelude sound cards - AHI output - extremely fast mixing routines - currently supports 64 custom programs, e.g. amplifiers, user-interfaces, analyzers, scopes, external depackers, listviews, managers etc. sound features - carefully and extensively adapted playroutines. nearly all of them support volume and balance, and most common players support the modular amplifier system. - replays with 8, 14, and 16 bit resolution (depending on the hardware) - supports free scalable mono, stereo and surround replay - replay speed can be controlled easily, including pitch for several sound formats. - music-fadein and fadeout - plays from fastram
system - supports all common system features, such as ARexx, commodity, appwindow, iconify, asynchronous online help, font-sensivity, pubscreens, hotkey... - supports xpk, xfd, powerpacker, imploder, crunchmania, lh.library, and more formats for decrunching, and any type of archive may be accessed like a directory. - is highly system-compliant and uses heavy internal multitasking - external programs (players, amplifiers, engines) are loaded when needed and removed automatically. - CyberGraphX is directly supported by some scopes. - configuration via configfile, tooltype and commandline arguments - allows timer.device, CIA and VBlank playspeed timing - does not interfere with modem use gui - easy and comfortable configuration that covers innumerous details - window-positions, player and engine settings, current module, each internal and external option will be saved globally with a single action - features different graphical user interfaces with custom boopsi gadgets in the default configuration, some windows accept custom background patterns, some are based upon custom images with up to 24 bit in depth - status information scroller - module info includes playtime calculation for soundformats like Protracker, Oktalyzer, SonicArranger, Jamcracker, DigiBooster and most sample formats - very comfortable handling: e.g. module selecting and directory changing directly using the pulldown-menu
custom - random module selection directly at startup - features the fastest FFT spectrum analyzer ever optimized for 68040/68060 processors. it supports lots of stunning diplay modes. - doublebuffering-function for continuous replay of modules by immediate loading of the next module - the instruments of a soundmodule can directly be replayed and saved in various formats (RAW, IFF, AIFF, WAVE)
- can save most protracker-clones in protracker format - supports module ripping, which can be either directed to an interface to ExoticRipper, or to an own ripper. - offers a powerful module database, and loads modules lists from nearly all other music players - lists can be handled like normal subdirectories - supports loading of Sound/Noise/Protracker/Startrekker/ Audiosculpture songfiles (that stuff with external samples on ST-00..ST-99 disks) - supports direct Aminet-CD mod archive browsing
REQUIREMENTS:
- an Amiga with 68000 CPU (68040/60 recommended for full feature set) - OS 2.04 - 0.5 MB ChipRam and 1 MB Fastram - around 2.5 MB Harddsik space
DISTRIBUTION/PRICE:
- free (GPL)
INSTALLATION: Just depack the archive to your harddisk and run Eagleplayer from there.
MP3 playback requires mpega.library & asyncio.library EmpyGUI(24) requires guigfx.library & render.library
CONTACT:
Henryk Richter henryk.richter@gmx.net
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