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Mpxplay v1.57 beta 4 is out on
http://www.freewebtown.com/mpxplay

diffs between v1.57 beta 4 and beta 3
-new/modifications:
-added AIF file playing (in_wav.c, ad_pcm.c)
-added W64 (Sony's Wave64) file playing (but Mpxplay cannot play >2Gb files
yet) (in_wav.c)
-added float64 pcm data handling to WAV,W64,AIF files (lossy downsampled to
float32 yet) (in_wav.c, ad_pcm.c, cv_bits.c)
-added -scc NUM option: soundcard sub-config (currently for Win32/WDS: +1 use
primary buffer, +2 loc-hardware, default=3) (control.c, sc_winds.c)
-CP437 is the default output codepage (-8ccp) (if -8 is not used) (textconv.c)
-FPL list loading is updated to the structure of Foobar2000 v1.0.1, but it's
not backward compatible and loads the filenames only (loadlist.c)
-win32: modified directsound (WDS) configuration (possible small quality improvement
under Win2k/XP) (sc_winds.c)
-win32: -scd option works at WDS output too (sc_winds.c)
-DOS: added 3 new pci-ids (motherboards) to Intel HDA device list (sc_inthd.c)
-bugfixes/modifications:
-flac header handling (faster and less error sensitive) (in_flac.c)
-WAV file output in float32 format (-o -obf) (the header was incorrect, other
players didn't play these files) (sc_wav.c)
-lfn to id3: updir is not used for album or artist if it doesn't contain '-'
and the file already has title (chkentry.c)
-F2: creating of savefilename (from updir) and saving playlist without path
(savelist.c)
-utf16 to char conversion (eol at id3v2) (textconv.c)
-display bug (writing bufpos in wrong pos) in dos-shell using -bb,-bbm options
(display.c)
-win32: optimized spectrum analyser and playlist editor drawing (faster and
less flashing) (display.c)
-making the source compatible with OW 1.9 (but Mpxplay v1.57 is compiled with
OW 1.3 yet)

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DOS-u-akbar!

Thnx!
Of course any feedback (bug report) would be great.
I don't plan to add anything to this version, so the next release will be the 'final'.

> Mpxplay v1.57 beta 4 is out on
> http://www.freewebtown.com/mpxplay
> -DOS: added 3 new pci-ids (motherboards) to Intel HDA device list
> (sc_inthd.c)

I have not tried latest under pure DOS (though it never worked there before), but it no longer works on my Vista SP2 laptop. Previous beta worked fine.

> I have not tried latest under pure DOS (though it never worked there
> before), but it no longer works on my Vista SP2 laptop. Previous beta
> worked fine.

More details? "No longer works" What does it mean?
And the Win32 version or DOS version in emulator?

Win32: Try -scc 1 or -scc 0 or -scs WIN options (steb by step in this order).
(in the beta4 the default -scc value is 3, I will change it to 1, but I whink so Vista has no WDS (directsound) output, so the +2 flag has no effect at you)
DOS version: I don't know...

btw. there is an sf.net forum for Mpxplay...

> > I have not tried latest under pure DOS (though it never worked there
> > before), but it no longer works on my Vista SP2 laptop. Previous beta
> > worked fine.
>
> More details? "No longer works" What does it mean?

Doesn't play any songs, somehow gets stuck before it can begin, which is a regression (for me).

> And the Win32 version or DOS version in emulator?

Win32 version (as DOS won't run at all there due to no full-screen support).

> Win32: Try -scc 1 or -scc 0 or -scs WIN options (steb by step in this
> order).

"-scc 1" seems to fix it. (Others do too, apparently, but "-scc 0" warns about lower quality.)

> (in the beta4 the default -scc value is 3, I will change it to 1, but I
> whink so Vista has no WDS (directsound) output, so the +2 flag has no
> effect at you)

No idea.

> DOS version: I don't know...

Not a surprise or big concern, just that it (in the past) seemed to not work in DOS here on this "Intel HDA"-ish (??) card.

> btw. there is an sf.net forum for Mpxplay...

Yeah, but I always forget. Good thing you dropped by here. Thanks x 1000**2, BTW.

> "-scc 1" seems to fix it. (Others do too, apparently, but "-scc 0" warns
> about lower quality.)

Maybe I was wrong, so what do you see in the right upper corner (soundcard type)? WIN or WDS?

> Not a surprise or big concern, just that it (in the past) seemed to not
> work in DOS here on this "Intel HDA"-ish (??) card.

I plan to modify (in v1.58) the pci card detection routines (from pci-bios to direct pci scan)), so Mpxplay will detect all of the Intel HDA compatible cards, but only if the motherboard's north-bridge is an Nvidia or ATI based chip (search by vendor-id, no need to know the exact device-id). But there are other boards with other chips too...

Mpxplay wrote:

> Mpxplay v1.57 beta 4 is out

Thanks, I'll test

Mpxplay wrote (in other thread):

> Try again with beta 3 ...
> Yeah and we would be happy, if DOS386 could share the used wattcp.cfg
> file with us... (email for me, I put it in the Mpxplay-WATTCP release)

I will after retesting Beta 4 (IIRC I pirated it from HX ...)

Mpxplay wrote:

> I plan to modify (in v1.58) the pci card detection routines (from pci-bios
> to direct pci scan)), so Mpxplay will detect all of the Intel HDA
> compatible cards, but only if the motherboard's north-bridge is an Nvidia
> or ATI based chip (search by vendor-id, no need to know the exact
> device-id). But there are other boards with other chips too...

Cool So you'll add a "use PCI BIOS instead direct hardware access" hack ?

BTW, anyone knows public FTP sites with audio files (legal is preferred from piracy, OGG/OGA + FLAC + WAVPACK is preferred from MP5) ?

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> > "-scc 1" seems to fix it. (Others do too, apparently, but "-scc 0" warns
> > about lower quality.)
>
> Maybe I was wrong, so what do you see in the right upper corner (soundcard
> type)? WIN or WDS?

"WDS" (on Vista Home Premium SP2)

> > Not a surprise or big concern, just that it (in the past) seemed to not
> > work in DOS here on this "Intel HDA"-ish (??) card.
>
> I plan to modify (in v1.58) the pci card detection routines (from pci-bios
> to direct pci scan)), so Mpxplay will detect all of the Intel HDA
> compatible cards, but only if the motherboard's north-bridge is an Nvidia
> or ATI based chip (search by vendor-id, no need to know the exact
> device-id). But there are other boards with other chips too...

I did try latest DOS binary (1.57b4) earlier today, but even with headphones, nothing.

>
> BTW, anyone knows public FTP sites with audio files (legal is
> preferred from piracy, OGG/OGA + FLAC + WAVPACK is preferred from MP5) ?

http://www.openbsd.org/songs/
http://www.metalchurchmusic.com/mp3.asp

(If you use the MOD plugin, that opens up a lot of other choices too.)

> > BTW, anyone knows public FTP sites with audio files
> http : // www . openbsd . org/songs/
> http : // www . metalchurchmusic . com/mp3.asp

Thanks, but it isn't FTP

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> "WDS" (on Vista Home Premium SP2)

Hm, I think so I've seen only an earlier SP1, without DirectSound support.
So SP2 already has it...

> I did try latest DOS binary (1.57b4) earlier today, but even with
> headphones, nothing.

The playing starts and no sound on the output or the card is not detected at all?
In the second case, you can send/write the Vendor-ID & Device-ID from the "Multimedia Device" line of the boot screen, I'll add it to the device-list.
In the first case: I have no idea, probably bios problem...

> second case, you can send/write the Vendor-ID & Device-ID from
> the "Multimedia Device" line of the boot screen

WtF

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> > > BTW, anyone knows public FTP sites with audio files
> > http : // www . openbsd . org/songs/
> > http : // www . metalchurchmusic . com/mp3.asp
>
> Thanks, but it isn't FTP

ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/

Seems to have song??.mp3 and song??.ogg for 30-38, 38b, 39-47, "ty" [sic].

> > I did try latest DOS binary (1.57b4) earlier today, but even with
> > headphones, nothing.
>
> The playing starts and no sound on the output or the card is not detected
> at all?

It thinks it's playing (spectrum analyzer moves), but I hear nothing.

> In the second case, you can send/write the Vendor-ID & Device-ID from the
> "Multimedia Device" line of the boot screen,

There is none, BIOS doesn't show anything. It's the same NVidia/Conexant/Intel HDA card I mentioned before. I don't know more than that, offhand.

> I'll add it to the
> device-list.
> In the first case: I have no idea, probably bios problem...

If you want, I'll also try that PCI-32 sniffer tool that DOS386 pointed to in order to report more details, but I'm not pressing you to fix it (since it's indeed probably just my lame-o hardware's problem).

> > The playing starts and no sound on the output or the card is not
> detected
> > at all?
>
> It thinks it's playing (spectrum analyzer moves), but I hear nothing.

The same happens with the Intel HDA on my HP 550 laptop. No sound comes out from the laptop's internal speaker, but if I connect external speakers to the line out jack, there is sound.

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> ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/
> Seems to have song??.mp3 and song??.ogg

COOL, although suspiciously similar to what I already had 3 months ago:

http://sf.net/projects/mpxplay/forums/forum/219198/topic/3311968 (scroll down)

ftp://ftp.inet.no/pub/OpenBSD/songs/

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> The same happens with the Intel HDA on my HP 550 laptop. No sound comes
> out from the laptop's internal speaker, but if I connect external speakers
> to the line out jack, there is sound.

You mentioned something similar a while back, which is why I tried headphones (didn't work either). I may have to borrow some small speakers temporarily from someone to test the line out, but I'm not optimistic. (I did check the BIOS, but there's nothing configurable re: sound in there.)

> > "WDS" (on Vista Home Premium SP2)
>
> Hm, I think so I've seen only an earlier SP1, without DirectSound
> support.
> So SP2 already has it...

BTW, your docs seem out of date, the URL for DOSLFN isn't Geocities anymore (defunct) but http://adoxa.110mb.com/doslfn/index.html .

P.S. I understand your frustration at possibly losing data. You may wish to try StarLFN (although it needs to not use a +H longname.dat file in DR-DOS or maybe FreeDOS too), esp. since it doesn't by default actually do anything but create a "database" file for SFN<->LFN conversion.

> BTW, your docs seem out of date, the URL for DOSLFN isn't Geocities
> anymore (defunct) but http://adoxa.110mb.com/doslfn/index.html .

You mean in the FAQ.TXT? Ok, it's corrected now... thnx

> P.S. I understand your frustration at possibly losing data (with DOSLFN)

I'm not sure that's still true. I've almost lost a partition due to DOSLFN + Mpxplay, but some months after this event I've made some corrections in my program (in the subdir-scannig?), just I have no free partition to test again the same problems (I mean, I have only two fat16 partitions to do anything under DOS)... So, be carefull...

Free FTP server collection:
http://techie-buzz.com/collections/50-ftp-sites-to-download-softwares-games-music-movies-and-e-books.html
But most of them are very slow or doesn't work at all. (or timeout of Mpxplay is too short)
Try: ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/.disk0/ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs
Recommended to use the -inl option at Mpxplay!

> Mpxplay v1.57 beta 4 is out on
> http://www.freewebtown.com/mpxplay
>
> diffs between v1.57 beta 4 and beta 3
> -new/modifications:
> -added AIF file playing (in_wav.c, ad_pcm.c)
> -added W64 (Sony's Wave64) file playing (but Mpxplay cannot play >2Gb
> files
> yet) (in_wav.c)
> -added float64 pcm data handling to WAV,W64,AIF files (lossy downsampled
> to
> float32 yet) (in_wav.c, ad_pcm.c, cv_bits.c)
> -added -scc NUM option: soundcard sub-config (currently for Win32/WDS: +1
> use
> primary buffer, +2 loc-hardware, default=3) (control.c, sc_winds.c)
> -CP437 is the default output codepage (-8ccp) (if -8 is not used)
> (textconv.c)
> -FPL list loading is updated to the structure of Foobar2000 v1.0.1, but
> it's
> not backward compatible and loads the filenames only (loadlist.c)
> -win32: modified directsound (WDS) configuration (possible small quality
> improvement
> under Win2k/XP) (sc_winds.c)
> -win32: -scd option works at WDS output too (sc_winds.c)
> -DOS: added 3 new pci-ids (motherboards) to Intel HDA device list
> (sc_inthd.c)
> -bugfixes/modifications:
> -flac header handling (faster and less error sensitive) (in_flac.c)
> -WAV file output in float32 format (-o -obf) (the header was incorrect,
> other
> players didn't play these files) (sc_wav.c)
> -lfn to id3: updir is not used for album or artist if it doesn't contain
> '-'
> and the file already has title (chkentry.c)
> -F2: creating of savefilename (from updir) and saving playlist without
> path
> (savelist.c)
> -utf16 to char conversion (eol at id3v2) (textconv.c)
> -display bug (writing bufpos in wrong pos) in dos-shell using -bb,-bbm
> options
> (display.c)
> -win32: optimized spectrum analyser and playlist editor drawing (faster
> and
> less flashing) (display.c)
> -making the source compatible with OW 1.9 (but Mpxplay v1.57 is compiled
> with
> OW 1.3 yet)

Hi, everyone

i can't download Mpxplay v1.57 beta 4 at http://www.freewebtown.com/mpxplay,

because http://www.freewebtown.com site was blocked my country.

another download link site ??

> Hi, everyone
>
> i can't download Mpxplay v1.57 beta 4 at
> http://www.freewebtown.com/mpxplay,
>
> because http://www.freewebtown.com site was blocked my country.
>
> another download link site ??

Hope this helps (needs Javascript but ideally isn't also blocked!), should be good enough.

1. Download Link: Click here to download file
http://rapidshare.com/files/388211231/mpxplay-157b4.zip.html
MD5: E6DC8A6EC3B59792CF9D34244E98DF8B


Archive:  mpxplay-157b4.zip
  Length      Date    Time    Name
---------  ---------- -----   ----
   600978  04/28/2010 22:39   mpxp157d.zip
  1011932  04/28/2010 22:43   mpxp157t.zip
   475201  04/28/2010 06:56   mpxp157w.zip
  1242426  04/28/2010 06:39   mpxs157.zip
---------                     -------
  3330537                     4 files


thank you very much


> > Hi, everyone
> >
> > i can't download Mpxplay v1.57 beta 4 at
> > http://www.freewebtown.com/mpxplay,
> >
> > because http://www.freewebtown.com site was blocked my country.
> >
> > another download link site ??
>
> Hope this helps (needs Javascript but ideally isn't also blocked!), should
> be good enough.
>
> 1. Download Link: Click here to download file
> http://rapidshare.com/files/388211231/mpxplay-157b4.zip.html
> MD5: E6DC8A6EC3B59792CF9D34244E98DF8B
>
>
> Archive:  mpxplay-157b4.zip
> Length      Date    Time    Name
> ---------  ---------- -----   ----
> 600978  04/28/2010 22:39   mpxp157d.zip
> 1011932  04/28/2010 22:43   mpxp157t.zip
> 475201  04/28/2010 06:56   mpxp157w.zip
> 1242426  04/28/2010 06:39   mpxs157.zip
> ---------                     -------
> 3330537                     4 files
>

A beta 5 release is also out now.
http://www.freewebtown.com/mpxplay

Diffs (bugfixes, modifications) between v1.57 beta 5 and beta 4:
-drive & subdir scan (-ds or d:\*.*\*.*) (string.c, diskdriv.c)
-CDW (audio cd) playing (drv_cd.c, mpxinbuf.c)
-data loss at the begin of first song (buffer control bug) (mpxinbuf.c, in_file.c)
-auto playlist save using -ds with (the default) -psu 19 (startup.c)
-playlist from stdin (-@i) (loadlist.c)
-better random play at start (ie: -prn -ds cde) especially under win32 (mixed.c)
-surround in lq mode (HQmode=0) (fx_surr.c)
-'l' key in sublist (now it doesn't jump out from sublist, if it doesn't find the file in the playlist) (keyboard.c)
-xce option is not saved automatically in Desktopmode ("confirm exit" is not enabled always after using -xce option once) (control.c)
-displaying of startup "Virtual drive error" window caused messy desktop (re-ordered init callings) (control.c, mpxplay.c)
-mpxplay.ini: better handling/saving of global variables (at unknown variables, if exe and ini version don't match) (control.c)
-mpxplay.ini: loading if it's read-only (with warning message) (control.c)
-WDS: modified default -scc value from 3 to 1 (disabled loc_hardware flag) (because it doesn't work everywhere) (sc_winds.c)
-WDS: the loc_hardware flag is disabled at multichannel output too (was always enabled at -oc > 2) (sc_winds.c)
-WDS: removed false "primary buf" error message at -scc 0 (sc_winds.c)

> Hope this helps (needs Javascript but ideally isn't also blocked!)

Better block the worm invasion highway (not that any DOS browser would support it to a useful degree AFAIK ...)

> should be good enough.
> 1. Download Link: Click here to download file
> http://rapidsh***.com/files/388211231/mpxplay-157b4.zip.html

Result:



Rapidsh** wrote:

> Please do not destroy our service

COOL yesterday I destroyed Rapidsh**, today I'll destroy BTTR and tomorrow the world

BTW, LooTube:



(older shot, wasn't it also Rugxulo who posted this link ???)

Beter link: http://www.file-pasta.com/file/0/MPX157B4.ZI7 2'562'552 Byte's D6DE85A901615E631E338F725A068424

Oops, 1.57b5 is out in the meantime, ^^^ is for regression tests only ...

> A beta 5 release is also out now.
> http://www.freewebtown.com/mpxplay

Thanks

> Diffs (bugfixes, modifications) between v1.57 beta 5 and beta 4:

Nothing related to the FTP ??? I tested 1.57b4: it hangs at "DHCP" (IIRC it came slightly further with 1.57b2 or so ...) see separate post

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