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The return of SongPlayer

After a long time, the best Amiga audio player appeared again with a new version in August 2003. Special thank to Stéphane Tavenard for making this nice product and then for giving us the sources in order to improve his work. The development started in spring 2003 with the main aim to make a MorphOs native version and to add OggVorbis support, since this file format is more and more used nowadays.

The biggest part of the work for the MorphOS port was :

to convert some 68k Assembly files to C
to adapt MUI hooks and tasks management (process)
to only use AHI for audio output
to discover that the 'char' type is not signed by default

General features

SongPlayer try to use the best of the hardware and the system components (MUI, AHI, asyncio, datatypes, ...). For example the AmigaOS version uses assembly and the audio chipset called Paula. On the other side, the MorphOS version adds graphical improvements (24-bit icons and images) and uses the SystemV ABI for the vorbisfile.library.

Usable in command lines or with its complete GUI under MUI
Support of many formats : MP2/MP3, Ogg Vorbis, IFF, AIFF, WAVE, AU, CDDA
Specific version for AmigaOS, MorphOS, Amithlon
Karaoke !
CDDA playing through audio extraction
ARexx port for an external control
Bass and treble
Graphical gadgets : CPU used, vumeters, spectrum analyser
Effect that plays mono files in a pseudo-stereo mode

Download

Version Code Compiler Audio Vorbis Date Information

AmigaOS 4 1.64 PowerPC GCC AHI No 08/008/06 Not a full package, just the executable

AmigaOS 1.62 68020+ SAS/C Paula/AHI No 22/04/04

MorphOS 1.62 PowerPC GCC AHI Yes 27/02/2004 The russian catalog was forgotten. Sorry Vinny :(
Original buttons converted in 24-bit mim by Antibike

Amithlon 1.62 68020+ VBCC AHI No 22/04/04 68k executable for emulation (Amithlon, OS4)

	Version	Code	Compiler	Audio	Vorbis	Date	Information
AmigaOS 4	1.64	PowerPC	GCC	AHI	No	08/008/06	Not a full package, just the executable
AmigaOS	1.62	68020+	SAS/C	Paula/AHI	No	22/04/04
MorphOS	1.62	PowerPC	GCC	AHI	Yes	27/02/2004	The russian catalog was forgotten. Sorry Vinny :( Original buttons converted in 24-bit mim by Antibike
Amithlon	1.62	68020+	VBCC	AHI	No	22/04/04	68k executable for emulation (Amithlon, OS4)

Contact

Stéphane TAVENARD is the SongPlayer author, but he doesn't support the product anymore. Support and improvements are now done by Mathias PARNAUDEAU and Nicolas DET.

If you want to give us a comment, a suggestion or make a bug report, please write to the address given in the doc (we want to avoid spam).

Links

- The interview (in english) from the authors by Amiga Arena, about the version 1.60
- Ogg Vorbis : the official website and the page of CdRipper, an extractor of audio tracks for MorphOS
- The compiler VBCC by Frank Wille who leads the great support

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