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Wishlist / Feature Requests / Re: ASIO plugin compatibility.

« on: December 22, 2016, 04:10:45 PM »

If the plug-in works with 5.666 then there should be no reason for it not to work with WACUP. As WACUP is primarily made up of other plug-ins that are targeted to work with 5.666 so unless they've broken something then other plug-ins not part of WACUP should work fine.

-dro

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Implemented Requests / Re: Suggestion: Preferences Adjustment/Moving

« on: December 20, 2016, 11:37:45 PM »

I know what you mean as I've also been thinking about it myself (going back to when I fixed the ordering on the page to make it look better if ml_disc wasn't present). Now that there's more vertical space in the preferences window by default, not interacting with the gen_ml options page at least with the podcast replacement plug-in would be the better option for me to get done

-dro

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Implemented Requests / Re: Play Tracking Suggestion

« on: December 20, 2016, 11:35:20 PM »

Yeah, I need to pull my finger out and get it implemented   When you say about knowing the state, I could either do it as an ATF field or can just go for specific configuration values to use for the distinct events (play, pause, unpause, stop).

-dro

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Implemented Requests / Re: Tracker module support

« on: December 15, 2016, 03:29:04 PM »

It's just a library (same for XMP) which decodes the files it supports into a format that Winamp can then play. The main thing is that it is a better implementation than what the native in_mod uses (since it's not been updated in years).

Internally it's quite interesting to try to see how it generates the actual audio often from just "play this" type commands (depending on the format).

-dro

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Implemented Requests / Re: Tracker module support

« on: December 14, 2016, 10:50:57 PM »

I'll look into XMP though it seems like they've either culled or just really hidden the appropriate source code for the plug-in and how to build it on WIndows (there's some odd bits I can find from crude code history commits but nothing 'current' that is provided).

License wise it seems like the full libxmp is LGPL which I'm ok with using (there's no point in even considering the lite version which is MIT licensed if I've already got an openmpt solution).

The plug-in d/l from modland seems to be very basic in only being comparable to to the 2.x days so would need updating in a number of ways to make it usable in current setups. So it might be something I look into as an updated alternative but just from spending almost an hour looking for the applicable source code needed with no real result, I'm not too impressed on first impression with xmp compared to my first time with openmpt.

-dro

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Implemented Requests / Re: Play Tracking Suggestion

« on: December 13, 2016, 03:41:59 PM »

Hmm, was this posted in the correct thread or should it have been in https://getwacup.com/community/index.php/topic,54.0.html instead ? Just not sure something about remote playback control really works in a thread about now playing posting

-dro

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Archive / Re: How Time Flies...

« on: December 13, 2016, 03:39:32 PM »

Had forgotten Mr Jones had written that.

And I'm still grumpy about certain things but looking back (is scary it's been 3 years tbh) with everything that was going on at the time (between flu, meetings, coding & trying to code base cleanse), it was a good release overall (barring the few little niggles the patched installer resolves).

-dro

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Archive / Re: Happy Thanksgiving!

« on: December 13, 2016, 03:36:08 PM »

I think you need to go and sit in the corner of this round room

-dro

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Implemented Requests / Re: Tracker module support

« on: December 13, 2016, 03:34:40 PM »

And he had some lovely shiny boots

-dro

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Wishlist / Feature Requests / Re: [UNDER DEVELOPMENT] A Replacement for Gracenote CDDB support

« on: December 13, 2016, 03:34:05 PM »

I'm not sure tbh. As I could try and do some means of proxying a new plug-in with the old one (I've done it for some things but then I've still got a Sonic dependency and other compromises). The ideal is some small clean solution that doesn't rely on Sonic / any of the existing hacked in functionality but whatever I end up doing, it's going to have to be done piecemeal and it's only really for the matter of convenience that burning support still seems to be required from the few that have requested it stay.

-dro

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Wishlist / Feature Requests / Re: WiFi Sync to Android Phone

« on: December 13, 2016, 03:30:07 PM »

Opening up of anything on to the internet leaves a risk be it UPNP (as you've helpfully clarified for me ) or from just basic web servers (as ajaxamp, hrequest, etc operate as). Maybe I could just go evil and create an FTP server from within Winamp and leave it as that

But being serious about things, whatever is done, the security of the setup needs to be thought about from the get go instead of trying to patch it in afterwards (i.e. trying to make use of HTTPS connections instead of HTTP).

And going back to original request, something like airdroid (which has been in the news recently for it's security related issues) might be an option to what I've already mentioned from the dropbox, etc options..

-dro

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Implemented Requests / Re: Tracker module support

« on: December 13, 2016, 03:21:48 PM »

MFC is a framework that depending on view point either helps with developing Windows stuff or its a ball ache due to then needing a number of large dependent dlls (e.g  more than is already included in the Microsoft.VC90.CRT folder).

So for the plug-in, I just worked through and replaced what was being used from the MFC framework with a comparable direct Windows api implementation (i.e. it works the same but means it's a few KB more of code in the dll itself but then doesn't require MB+ dll files).

Under the licensing terms used by the openmpt project it means I don't have to commit anything back to them but then I'm not keen on not doing that as some of the changes can be helpful for those using the plug-in provided in non-Winamp setups. So by giving back any code changes, it would mean anyone else can make use of such changes (if they want to / are able to).

-dro

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Wishlist / Feature Requests / Re: [UNDER DEVELOPMENT] A Replacement for Gracenote CDDB support

« on: December 13, 2016, 03:13:08 PM »

Between the two CDDB options EAC includes, the freedb one is the same as I'm looking at, the GD3 one I don't know much about other than you have to pay to use it after a 10 disc trial (so I've no idea on the quality / breadth of what it's able to provide).

For writing, cdrecord was something that I'd also come across I'm just a bit hesitant when it comes to making use of any GPL based software as that and your suggestion appear to be. As the other option from the Facebook page was to effectively create a temp folder with the pre-rendered WAV files and then allow that to be handed off to an external program (so much like the piping option).

Really burning is a bit of a pain in how best to do it so the process flow won't suck but can do what's needed within the confiines of having to go with free solutions. It's why just doing playback / ripping are the easier option (it's the same process other than how the read audio gets treated). Anyway, there's been a good number of comments & suggestions about everything that's made my head hurt a bit

-dro

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Implemented Requests / Re: Tracker module support

« on: December 13, 2016, 02:50:44 PM »

There's also a few of the other plug-ins on the modland site that I'd possibly consider including later on but it really depends on whether they can be cleaned up to work better with 5.666 / WACUP or not.

-dro

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Implemented Requests / Re: Tracker module support

« on: December 13, 2016, 02:48:41 PM »

I went with openmpt as it's seeing regular development updates and at the time when I had an official hat they were open to it happening. It also seems to be actively supported on Windows which is not the case for a lot of these open projects.

The main thing lacking with the openmpt plug-in I'm including is transcoding / file converter support & I that I need to commit back to them most of my changes (which leaves me in a bit of a quandry as the mythical 5.8 release is using it now and it has transcoding support but ripped out the looping options instead of properly converting it over to remove the MFC dependencies as I've done).

-dro