FILE PLAYER : Although there are many midi file player/jukebox programs available on thenet and elsewhere, invariably they all fall short of being suitable for theworking musician who uses midi files as the basis of his repertoire.Generally the short comings are that the software is either too simple, toocomplex or only suitable for desktop use as a random file player whileother tasks are pursued.As more and more musicians are turning to use notebook PC's as the basis oftheir live midi setup the only practical solutions are a small number ofcommercial applications e.g Cakewalk Virtual Jukebox, Romp and SoftConcert, but even these have major shortcomings. What is required is aprogram designed solely for live performance with only those features thatare required for live performance. All other features not required for liveperformance should be left off and left to programs that are designed forthose purposes. FILE PLAYER : Being unable to program myself, I will now set out what I consider to bethe basis of a Live Performance Midifile Player based on my experience of performing midi music live for the last six years, in the hope that someonewith the required programming ability can produce a program to meet mycriteria. The following specifications should only be considered as aminimum requirement. Any other features added should be considered asenhancements, providing they don't interfere with the basic usability ofthe core program.1. The program should run in Win95 and support long file names and majornavigation be carried out by single keystrokes, i.e Fkeys, Page Up/Down,Arrows, + and - keys , Spacebar and Alphabet keys.2. The program must access the midifile as a read only file and not changeany parameters of midifile.3. Must be able to compile and save playlists separate to the directorylisting of the midifile.4. The main form should display the playlists in one window and thecontents of the selected playlist in a larger window to the right of thePlaylist Window. Controls should consist of only a Play button and TempoUp and Down buttons with a BPM display. 5. Contents of the selected playlist should become visible in the ContentsWindow immediately a playlist is selected. FILE PLAYER : 6. Navigation of the Playlist Window and Contents Window should be bykeystroke i.e Page Up/Down for Playlist and Arrows Up/Down for Contents.(Or, use the Fkeys or L for the selection of a Playlist Window, Fkeys or Cfor selection of the Contents Window then Arrows for navigating inside thewindows.)7. When a file is selected in the Contents Window, playback must wait untila key is struck i.e Spacebar the Pkey or Play button is clicked with themouse. During playback, hitting the Spacebar, Skey or Play button willimmediately stop playback and reset the file to the beginning. (Transportcontrols aren't really necessary as they are rarely required andgenerally require the use of the mouse.)8. During playback, a new Playlist or file from the Contents Window shouldbe able to be selected without affecting the playback of the current file. 9. Tempo should be displayed, and able to be controlled in 1BPM incrementsby using keystrokes i.e + and - keys, Fkeys or U and D keys. (Although foruse on a notebook computer, the Fkeys or the U and D keys would be betteras only one keystroke is required.) FILE PLAYER : I finally solved all problems with ATI file player and mp2 files:It plays the .mp2 files (converted from .vcr files) with absolutelyno problems. Audio and video stay in sync, I can skip over big hunksof the file, and the playback picks up instantly and is still in sync.I never had any doubts this was a software problem with the MMC 7.6file player (and/or the DVD 7.6 codecs), but this should convinceeven ATI. Same hardware, same OS, same .mp2 file. PowerDVD can playit with no problems, ATI file player gets all screwed up when Iskip over parts of the file during playback.Now if I could just tell ATI: I've tried several times to submita description of this via their "new improved email support" interfaceand it always tells me I'll get an ack within one day but it tellsme that on the same web page where it looks as if my bug report spewedits contents on the bottom of the page. Since I never gets an ack,I'm assuming their new improved interface drops the bug reportson the floor :-). FILE PLAYER : Below is a description of a new MIDI file player for Windows(also addsMIDI music to ANY SCREENSAVER). It is available by ftp at: (ormidiqlt.zip)It is also available from my home page(address below) or you can emailme and I can send it to you via email.I hope nobody minds the advertising, but it is a fully functioningshareware release, if that helps.MIDI QUEUE SHAREWARE VERSION 1.0 *****See note below about which zip file to DownLoad*****MIDI QUEUE is MIDI file player(Windows) that allows you to load in a large number of MIDI songs and play them while you do other things on your computer, like writing reports, updating databases, programming,...You can save the current songs in the 'queue' to a file, so that you caneasily load in a list of MIDI songs just by openning one file. In Fact MIDIQUEUE is a SMART program, it will remember the last queue you loaded, and automatically load it for you, it will even start playing and minimize itself to an icon(If these were your most recent actions).
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