MusicPlayer
| Last Update: | July 1, 2008 (5 days ago) |
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| Category: | Audio |
| Tags: | audio, mp3, music, musicplayer, and sound |
| Project Manager: | trysor |
| Current Version: | MusicPlayer 2.4.2.1 (for World of Warcraft 2.4.2) |
| Downloads Today: | 233 |
| Downloads Total: | 184,550 |
| Favorites: | 329 |
| Comments: | 1,018 |
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| Created On: | July 10, 2006 |
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trysor
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- About MusicPlayer
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MusicPlayer
An ingame, fully functional mp3player with alot of extra features to enhance your exeperience in Azeroth.
About
The whole idea of creating a wow-mp3player started when I died for the umpteenth time while being in the background, changing my music etc. I normally play in fullscreen mode, which means I have to alt-tab forth and back between WoW and Winamp. In addition, Winamp do take more CPU than a simple WoW addon.
MusicPlayer is what I came up with. MusicPlayer started as a bad, not good at all thing, but today it is one of the best WoW-mp3 players out there.
Features
MusicPlayers main system is pretty basic, so therefore I decided to add functions like favorite- and enqueue systems and other stuff like:
- Chat notify Sends MusicPlayers messages to your chatbox.
- Search box Search through your playlist.
- Fubar / Titan Plugins Self explaining.
- Playlist Generator handles unlimited numbers! (or, almost.)
- Keybindings Bindings for next / prev, volume, etc.
- Keybindings Bindings for 20 favorites.
- Shuffle and at the end functionality self explaining.
- Playlist Formatting Format your playlist to your likings! (Also includes sorting.)
- Options window Easy and well designed options window, with options to custom everything! From colors to playlist formatting.
- Minimap icon Minimap icon with dropdown menu.
- Ingame Help Description for every option and every part of MusicPlayer.
- Slash Commands See ingame help for a complete list.
- Announcer - Sends a message to your specific channel with your currently playing song's title, artist and genre!
- Item links - Shows basic information about a song in an item tooltip! (Shift Click to send it! -Can only be sent to other people with MusicPlayer.)
Getting Started
I will explain how you get started here. After you have installed MusicPlayer (read how to install the addon properly at the How to install page), you have to do 3 easy steps.
1. Put your mp3s (copy them, or move them) into the Music folder, found inside MusicPlayers folder.
Example: WoW \ Interface \ addons \ MusicPlayer \ Music \ mp3filename.mp3
2. Use the PlaylistMaker.exe included in the .zip. An interface will appear, check that all of your mp3s show up in the list. Click Generate if they all appear in the list.
3. Exit WoW (or start WoW, if WoW is not running) and log back in again.
See Troubleshooting for more information.
FAQs - Out of game
Q - Why do i have to put my mp3s in the Music folder?
A - WoW cannot read (nor activate) files that is not in WoW's directory. Ask Blizzard why this is, not me.
Q - The playlist maker says i need something like .Net Framework 2.0. What is that and where do i get it?
A - .Net Framework is, obviously, a framework for applications. You can get it from Microsoft. (Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5)
Q - Why can't I add .wav or other filetypes to MusicPlayer?
A - Simply because the API function PlayMusic does not support it. I hope Blizzard will add more than just the mp3 format soon.
FAQs - Ingame
Q - While I travel, WoW's background music seems to play along with my music.
A - This cannot be fixed. Blizzard made Musical moments, but did not give priority to the PlayMusic function, which is the function MusicPlayer use to connect to the .mp3s.
Q - I've added the songs, and they show up correctly in the playlist, but theres no sound at all when i play them!
A - Please be sure that both Master- and Music volume are at decent value. Then check if your headset / speakers are plugged in and is turned on. If that doesnt work, have you tested relogging?
Q - When alt-tabbed, MusicPlayer doesn't seem to update correctly! Why is this?
A - alt-tabbing out of the game for extended periods with the audio still playing in the background will cause MusicPlayer to continue playing a song, but the timer doesn't tick because the game is minimized.
Q - My question is not listed here! What do i do?
A - Post a comment on this site, and I'll answer you there.
Troubleshooting
Having problems? Read what to do here:
- PlaylistMaker Problems?
Please be sure that you have installed .NET Framework 2.0. (see FAQs for a download-link.) If you still got problems, try use the regsvr script included. If that doesnt work either, please post here, with the following information included; your error-message and your version of MusicPlayer.
- No sound?
Check the sound options and make sure that both the master- and the music volume is at decent value. The enable music checkbox do not have to be checked, as MusicPlayer automaticly checks it for you. If theres still no sound, take a look at your speakers volume. Is it at decent value? If theres still no sound, but everything seems ok, have you tried to relogg? (completely exit WoW)
- Lua error?
Please post the complete error (debug version is more than welcome too) and your version of MusicPlayer. If you dont know which version you have, open the options window and look for it there.
If you want to report a full error-report, Please post as follows;
- Version of MusicPlayer
- Lua error
- When it happened (What did you do when it happened?)
- Please add any thoughts you got.
- Your Configuration (only if you belive it has something to do with it)
Todo
Heres a list of things I might include in the future:
- Add a I want this song to have a keybinding feature.
- Total queue duration + timer. (x songs enqueued equals y min and z sec, a min and b sec remaining.)
- Add FAQs to the ingame help window.
- Make songs queueable multible times.
- Give the user the choice of how many buttons there should be in the playlist.
Credits
- DementuZ Nìrthelem of Argent Dawn (MusicPlayers Beta tester)
- FuhrerDarqueSyde Mistwaker of Cenarion Circle (Author of PlaylistMaker)
- Aericia - Aericia of Alexstraza (Tried to make a playlist gen, but had a hard time doing it, due to personal problems.)
- Izadore Storm of Ideas (Nice ideas!)
Created and managed by Trysor (new main: Athariel) of Argent Dawn (EU).
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BloodWraith23 saidWhenever I add songs to the playlist, they all come up as "Unknown Title" in game, so I have no idea which is which.
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trysor saidThat is due to no title tag in the mp3 file.
I suggest you download a mp3 tagging program, like MusicBrainz.
(Google it)
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worksheet20 saidWell I dont know how to turn up the addons volume
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trysor saidLog into WoW, press escape, choose "Sound & Voice", set "Master Volume" and "Music Volume" to max.
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worksheet20 saidWhen I logged in I didn't hear anything but I try to turn up the master volume and it says "<musicplayer> insert a numberic value". So if u could type on how to change the volume it would be appreciated
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trysor saidPlease be sure to get the latest version availible.
That error was fixed some versions ago.
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IAmParadox saidWelcome back.
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trysor said*Cheers*
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trysor saidOh yeah, Crete is such a nice place =)
(I'm back)
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trysor saidI just want to say that I'm going on vacation for the next week and will not be able to respond to posts during that timeperiod.
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IAmParadox saidObviously, you have no clue, R4ND0M1337, The WoW API doesn't allow you to do anything outside of the game, we're lucky they let us play mp3s at all, and we have to do even that in a roundabout way.
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trysor saidsad, but true :'(
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R4ND0M1337 saidOr maybe the "MusicPlayer" can just access the playlist that you have created at www.projectplaylist.com , so that you can listen to the playlist you already have setup at that website! I think that's a great idea, and it seems like it's not too hard to make. If you did this for the next update, I'm sure many more people would download this AddOn. Please message me if you decide to, or already have made it.
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R4ND0M1337 saidYea, I am not going to get this, only because I would need to go thru the hassle of downloading songs from the internet. However, I think i have a solution for the next update! There is a website ( www.projectplaylist.com ) that lets you put songs into a playlist that you can create and edit however you like, with no downloading. Maybe it's possible that you can somehow get that same type of system into this AddOn? Like maybe there could be a large selection of songs, and we can pick which ones we want to go on our "MusicPlayer". I don't know much about making AddOns, but I hope that this is possible!
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Swiftstrike saidOut of interest is this/will this be compatible with the sound fading the in-game voice chat uses?
I want to listen to my music but be able to hear when the raid leaders start yelling at me for not focusing properly ;)
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trysor saidIt does work with voicechat, but theres a problem with the volume returning to 100% after someone stop talking. This is fixed with the next release, which will come soon.
You can turn the music to 100% and not notice anything though (which is why this slipped through).
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Ryldd saidis there a way that my party members or people around me can hear my music?
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trysor saidNo, that is not possible unless they get the same mp3 file.
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lordsaturn saidomg, alright. i did NOT mix the two addons or any files between the two. What i was trying to say was i had the same result with both this addon, and simplemp3player.
I am positive there are NO special characters (other than the shift 1-9) in any of the id tags, or the filenames. The playlist compiles correctly, but all of my songs fail to show up ingame.
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IAmParadox saidtry making a smaller playlist, just a few songs, you may be running out of memory and the playlist isn't loading.... I have personally made a playlist with more than 12,000 songs on it for SMP3, but, I also have 4 GB RAM, so, I don't know if what I suggest is even feasible, but worth a try.