[RELEASE] GameMusicGear_MX v1.0

[silmarilion]

Hi there, i'm relasing GameMusicGear_MX v1.1, just a small update this time :).

I've managed to fix most of the bugs reported in v1.0, and added a couple of new input plugins. Also GameMusicGear now supports sampling rates from 8000 to 48000 hz

Here is the changelog:

Version 1.1

+ add new in_ac3 input plugins.
+ add new in_stream (vgmstream) input plugin. Will be used by
default over in_cube.
+ add new in_aac (aac, mp4, m4a) input plugin.
+ add new in_hvl (hvl, ahx) input plugin.
+ ADD Support for 8000, 11050, 12000, 16000,
22050, 24000, 32000, 44100, 48000 sampling rates.
Note: If the song sampling rate doesn't match one of
those values exactly the closer frequency value will be
used.
+ ...

* fix crash when pressing circle button on an empty playlist.
* fix crash when pressing up/down buttons on an empty settings
list in the config screen.
* fix equalizer left channels was not working.
* fix FLAC seek functions was broken.
* fix in config screen sometimes the left/right trigger icons and
left/right pad icons were wrong.
* fix in_modplug settings were being ignored.
* fix in_modplug seek function was broken.
* fix in_mad seek function was buggy.
* fix crash when in_modplug couldn´t handle a song.
* fix crash when trying to play a sid song if no songlengths
database was found.
* fix ...

Here is a pic of the browser and of one of the new plugins:





Note: Please read the documentation for a more detailed information about
the controls, skins and plugins.
And again any comment is welcome at gama.coder@gmail.com

DOWNLOAD

- KNOWN BUGS -

I will keep track of every reported bug in the next list, so please if you encounter any let me know by posting here or mailing me. The more detailed info about it the better :)

Version 1.1
1. Files dissapear from the browser when saving changes in config screen.

:) Enjoy the Music!

[Vonsta]

whooah.. thats a pretty impressive changelog mate.. a bunch of those features make me wanna try it out so il download it.. i remember seeing an old version some time ago, but i didnt end up trying it as i was mainly listening to MP3/WMA music instead with MusicPRX and several others on occasion.. blah blah

thankyou for your obvious hard work. im sure many other people will enjoy this also :)

[Psypher]

AWESOME music app. The best on the PSP hands down. Thanks for releasing this! :)

[niobe]

great app, but at PSP Phat with cfw.5.00 M33 i found 2 bugs:
1.) if press any button before square for enter to browser screen, GameMusicGear_MX freeze and PSP reset
2.) if press button SELECT for enter to setup screen when playing music, GameMusicGear_MX freeze and PSP reset

sry for my english.

[silmarilion]

Thanks, i have confirmed the first bug, i cant believe i miss that :), i will fix it as soon as i can. But i cant confirm the second one, tested it with a PSP Fat cfw 4.01 and i can enter the setup screen with no problem, are you sure you copied all the files inside GMGearMX_1.0.zip? Maybe you changed some setting or something?

[infinity888]

nice release but has many bugs that causes freezes. It locked up on me 4 times in like 5 mins of tinkering with it.

keep it up its looking really good

[RocSqualie]

Awesome! Going to give this a try. I've heard this also saves on battery life just like LightMP3. Is this true?

I've been looking for an alternative mp3 (or ATRAC3 in my case) player that has both the option of saving on battery life and a working equalizer :)

EDIT: Just found out that it doesn't support ATRAC3

[silmarilion]

nice release but has many bugs that causes freezes. It locked up on me 4 times in like 5 mins of tinkering with it.

keep it up its looking really good

Thanks, i will write a known bugs list at the first post. But could you be more specific about the bugs/crashes?. Some little report like niobe did would be really helpfull to try to reproduce the bug and fix it :)

[zeratos]

Does this work on the PSP Slim?

I tried this on a SLIM with 3.71 CFW and it just goes back to the XMB. D:

[infinity888]

Thanks, i will write a known bugs list at the first post. But could you be more specific about the bugs/crashes?. Some little report like niobe did would be really helpfull to try to reproduce the bug and fix it :)

I don't really know what I did wrong but basically (and I know its hard I've programmed for comps for a while) try to pretend that you have no idea what your doing and push buttons in different sections of the app trying to get a response and it will eventually freeze.

[Art]

Looks nice, are you going to share how you get the Eq to work?
Are you using the ME to play MP3's?

[SpooNManX]

The last was very buggy for me unfortunately. I'm going to wait for the bugfix before grabbing this again. I really think this is one of the best homebrew apps on the PSP and I am REALLY hoping this works better this time around.

I have a PSP original, 5.00-M33-3 btw.

Keep up the great work and as far as other formats I'd like to see plugins for N64 (miniusf) is on the top of the list! There are some really amazing soundtracks I'd like to listen to on the PSP. Both Zeldas, Mario Kart, 64, Golden Eye, Tetrisphere, Starfox 64, Banjo, F-Zero, Smash Bros, Killer Instinct.. and many others.

PS: I now have 16GB of space to load full of great chip tunes! :)

[PsychoSync]

I have to say that this app is awesome! Nice interface, config menu is one of the best configs i've seen on psp!

The only bad thing that i've noticed is that there is no reverb in psf playback. Is this just not implemented or is it too cpu intensive to enable?

Just one other question: does psf2 playback work? I've tried playing a song from Final Fantasy X and it crashed. I havent tried any other psf2 though...

Well thank you for your hard work.

[Art]

No luch using it here.
It won't start for me under 3.52 kernel, but does start in 1.50.
Can't play any music though...

I love the feel the "official looking" file browser.

[Freshmilk]

This looks sweet. I better go find my USB cable

[Speedvicio]

The player have many problem with uade input plugin and sid plugin, the psp crash (i have put all external necessary file in the program folder)

Any mod dont start or they have played badly.

Compare this module with xmplay or winamp

http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Lethal_Weapon

http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Out_Run_Europa

The sound is not the same.

Sorry for bad english

[Vonsta]

[QUOTE=Art;2138459]No luch using it here.
It won't start for me under 3.52 kernel, but does start in 1.50.
Can't play any music though...[/"QUOTE]

Art, i dont mean to question your knowledge, but did you try the "different" folder structures? What i mean is theres the "ms0/PSP/MUSIC" folder and then theres the "ms0/MUSIC" folder...

im not sure if it will fix the problem, but i do know that some music apps are folder-specific. for example "DJSP" will only run if the music files are in one folder and not the other..

anyway, i just thought id mention it, because ive had to remind people in the past that have had the same problem..

[infinity888]

yeah he knows all about the because of time baby lol i remember going over that with him.

edit
bah i shouldnent speak for other ppl i guess im just bored... sorry

[Vonsta]

eh.. us being bored is nothin to be sorry about mate.. and i know what i mentioned sounds a little insulting to someones intelligence (especially Art) but people DO still forget about little things like that..

Art you must be a mad loyallist to still be on 3.52 M33.. mind you i remember how long it took me to give in and upgrade to 3.71 M33-4.. i only did it so that explaining things to my son would be easier on his SlimPSP (same firmware)... speaking of loyallists, one of my PSPs still has 3.03 OE-C on it.. mind you its never used cos the analog nub is broken.. mainly use it as a remote for my Hifi/DVD/TV/etc at home

once again its time for me to shut up :) wow its past 5am in OZ.. thats right people.. im a machine!

[Soaa-]

Great plugin, thanks! I've been waiting for a good music player with equalizer for my PSP, to give my SE210s some more kick.

Three major bugs I've found:

1. EQ Preamp only works on the right channel.
2. Some of my mp3s don't play, and interrupt the playlist. In the log, it reports Code -2.
3. Seeking doesn't work on mp3s. Unless I'm pressing the wrong buttons?

My PSP is a Slim, and it runs on firmware 5.00 M33-3.

[silmarilion]

The player have many problem with uade input plugin and sid plugin, the psp crash (i have put all external necessary file in the program folder)

Any mod dont start or they have played badly.

Compare this module with xmplay or winamp

http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Lethal_Weapon

http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Out_Run_Europa

The sound is not the same.

Sorry for bad english

Hi there, could you please send me the sid songs that are causing crashes, and i will take a look at them. I'm using the libsidplay 1 engine so only psids are supported.

About the uade plugin it is based on a very old version (1.03) of UADE so many players may not work properly or not work at all.

Please read de plugins.readme to see all the necessary files and note that not all the uade supported extensions are written on the in_uade.plugin (they were so many that i only tested a few ones), the extensions must be the same found in the eagleplayer.conf file. Also you can try playing the modules with the modplug plugin but you need to change the extension to a prefix one. Like changing med.boss to boss.med.

And finally you can always look at the gmgear log file to see wich plugin was trying to play that song.

Great plugin, thanks! I've been waiting for a good music player with equalizer for my PSP, to give my SE210s some more kick.

Three major bugs I've found:

1. EQ Preamp only works on the right channel.
2. Some of my mp3s don't play, and interrupt the playlist. In the log, it reports Code -2.
3. Seeking doesn't work on mp3s. Unless I'm pressing the wrong buttons?

Thanks i will report the first one on the bugs list and will fix it later :). About the other two the default mp3 plugin is in_mp3, based on the pspsdk's pspmp3 library, wich for some reason doesn't support other freq than 44k. And also doesn't support seeking. You can try the in_mad plugin wich uses libmad. It works with 44k and 48k songs and has a seeking support (but seeking is a little buggy at the moment).

[Soaa-]

Oh, thanks a bunch for the tip. *tries*

Works, thanks a bunch.

Feature request: any chance for an option to disable clock changing? I'd like to use the CPU Modulator plugin to do that, and it seems that the plugin currently interferes with the player's clock settings, and it makes clicking sounds.

Improvement request: Spectrum-style visualizers currently use a linear frequency scale, which is unnatural and give WAAAAY too much attention to highs. Would it be possible to use a logarithmic scale instead?

Bug report: in_mad can play 48kHz mp3, but it interprets them as 44.1kHz, so it plays slower, and lower-pitched.

[b2p1mp]

I'd like to see plugins for N64 (miniusf) is on the top of the list! There are some really amazing soundtracks I'd like to listen to on the PSP. Both Zeldas, Mario Kart, 64, Golden Eye, Tetrisphere, Starfox 64, Banjo, F-Zero, Smash Bros, Killer Instinct.. and many others.

Now that sounds fun, any chance of adding that in the next version?

[SpooNManX]

I'm not having much luck this time around either . The only version that still works for me is the initial release from last year, but that is very limited and doesn't play my SNES RSN or Gen VGM files.

Can anyone who owns an original PSP running 5.0-M33-2 with the kernel 1.5 add-on get this to play anything?

I have the single folder (GMGearMX) in the GAME5.XX folder and the music files are in their own folders off that. When I start it up it just shows the menu with no folders or files, when I press a button it shuts down.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[silmarilion]

I'm not having much luck this time around either . The only version that still works for me is the initial release from last year, but that is very limited and doesn't play my SNES RSN or Gen VGM files.

Can anyone who owns an original PSP running 5.0-M33-2 with the kernel 1.5 add-on get this to play anything?

I have the single folder (GMGearMX) in the GAME5.XX folder and the music files are in their own folders off that. When I start it up it just shows the menu with no folders or files, when I press a button it shuts down.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Hi there, you must first add some songs to the playlist by pressing the square button and browsing the memory stick. There is a bug when trying to play something with an empty playlist. I wrote a known bugs list in the first post and the next release will have all of them fixed :).

[axeltheas]

nice ^^

[demologik]

I'm not having much luck this time around either . The only version that still works for me is the initial release from last year, but that is very limited and doesn't play my SNES RSN or Gen VGM files.

Can anyone who owns an original PSP running 5.0-M33-2 with the kernel 1.5 add-on get this to play anything?

I have the single folder (GMGearMX) in the GAME5.XX folder and the music files are in their own folders off that. When I start it up it just shows the menu with no folders or files, when I press a button it shuts down.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Take your mso:/psp/MUSIC folder and cut it and paste it to ms0: worked for me after that.. use square button and arrows to browse your music and you're all good.

GREAT APP by the way. still a little buggy, but overall good job!

[silmarilion]

Take your mso:/psp/MUSIC folder and cut it and paste it to ms0: worked for me after that.. use square button and arrows to browse your music and you're all good.

GREAT APP by the way. still a little buggy, but overall good job!

Oh, I see the app looks for ms0:/MUSIC folder by default. Ok, i'll change the default path to the memory stick root (ms0:/). I'll write it in the bugs list.

By the way i posted some news about the next release in the first page :).

[d0pefish]

Hi silmarilion!

Your player is simply awesome, I *LOVE* being able to play all my tracker mods and console chiptunes. I check this thread for updates every day. :) Thanks for coding such an excellent player.

Could I request something for a future release? I would really love this player to be able to stream shoutcast/icecast stations. I could then get rid of PSPRadio (which is buggy, slow, and doesn't get updated any more).

Another thing is I'd love to see an AHX/HVL plugin for this player. AHX and HivelyTracker are synth-trackers; AHX was on the Amiga, and HivelyTracker is a cross-platform re-make of AHX with many more features. The replay code for AHX/HVL is available from HivelyTracker's download section. There are some nice tunes in this format and I enjoy tracking in AHX myself :)

BTW, what was the problem with the newer UADE plugin and why did you end up choosing the older version?

Keep up the excellent work on this player, it really is the best player for the PSP hands down.

I'll keep testing and report any bugs I find that aren't already mentioned.

PS: If you need someone with a PSP Slim and 5.00-M33 to assist with testing and bug-hunting drop me a line, I'd love to try out experimental code :)

[silmarilion]

Hi silmarilion!

Your player is simply awesome, I *LOVE* being able to play all my tracker mods and console chiptunes. I check this thread for updates every day. :) Thanks for coding such an excellent player.

Could I request something for a future release? I would really love this player to be able to stream shoutcast/icecast stations. I could then get rid of PSPRadio (which is buggy, slow, and doesn't get updated any more).

Another thing is I'd love to see an AHX/HVL plugin for this player. AHX and HivelyTracker are synth-trackers; AHX was on the Amiga, and HivelyTracker is a cross-platform re-make of AHX with many more features. The replay code for AHX/HVL is available from HivelyTracker's download section. There are some nice tunes in this format and I enjoy tracking in AHX myself :)

BTW, what was the problem with the newer UADE plugin and why did you end up choosing the older version?

Keep up the excellent work on this player, it really is the best player for the PSP hands down.

I'll keep testing and report any bugs I find that aren't already mentioned.

PS: If you need someone with a PSP Slim and 5.00-M33 to assist with testing and bug-hunting drop me a line, I'd love to try out experimental code :)

Hi there, first thanks for your support.

About the shoutcast/icecast i don't have access to a wireless connection right now but maybe sometime in the future i'll give it a try.

I have checked the source of Hively Tracker and seems quite simple, so guess i will give it a try :). By the way the uade plugin already handles ahx files, i tryied some called AHX.Cruisin and sounds really nice. But you need all the required files mentioned in the plugins.readme. I you have trouble with them i can send them to you if you like. And the plugin uses an older version of uade, because it is based on a plugin wrote by Sasq, the author of oldplay.

I tryied to port some newer version but it has a lot of changes, and is a little complicated to port to the psp .