EpicMusicPlayer is a World of Warcraft mp3 player with multiple playlist support a LibDataBroker plugin and a fancy little 3d model.
Demo
Watch a 2 minutes high quality video demo on YouTube:)
Features
- Add mp3, wav or ogg music files.
- Multiple playlist support.
- Add/Remove playlists ingame.
- Move songs between playlists ingame.
- Playlist with all (Patch 3.1) original wow game music included (once you have createt a playlist).
- Search for a song
- Link a song to guild/party/say/raid (with youtube link)
- Easy add your music with drag and drop. (with the included playlist manager)
- Supports all characters in id3tags (Unicode) No need to rename any of your files.
- Songs with no title in the tag will be added with the file name as title.
- Fast adding new files. (The playlist manager will not replace your last created list but add the new music to your old list.)
Addons/Modules
- EpicMusicPlayer
- The player with GUI and playlist
- EpicMusicPlayer_Broker
- If you have TItanPanel or any other LDB display addon like ChocolateBar (made by me^^) or one of the many others you will see this plugin.
- If you use Fubar install Broker2Fubar
- EpicMusicPlayer_Dancer
- Fancy little 3d model which will play/dance to your music (optional addon) Currently featuring Sid Nicious, Bergrisst, Mai'Kyl and Chief Thunder-Skins of The Tauren Chieftains.
Usage
You can even chance the on click behaviour to your liking.
The default setting is:
- left click - play next song
- middle click - play/stop
- right click - show options
- use scroll wheel - adjust music volume
- Ctrl use scroll wheel - adjust effects volume
- alt use scroll wheel - fine adjust volume
- alt click - show playlist
- shift click - play last song
- ctrl click - Write artist and title to default chat. (guild,party etc.)
All of these work on the mini map button, the 3dmodel, the gui text and the broker plugin. You don't need the gui visible at all.
Slash commands
- /emp (show the options dialog)
- /emp ctr (list control options)
- /emp op (list other options)
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I add music to the player?
Here is a guide with screenies:)
But for advanced users it's easy:
- Double click the "create_playlist.bat" in the Playlistmanger folder. (Exit Wow if running!)
- Just drag and drop some mp3 music files/folders into the Playlist-Manager.
- Close EMP-Playlist-Manager (be sure to click "Yes" Save Playlist.)
Start WoW and enjoy your music while farming:)
Do I have to copy all of my music files to the wow folder?
No. The Playlist Manager can create links (inside the wow folder) that point to your original music folder. That way wow thinks the files are in the wow folder.
You can enable this by:
Windows Vista:
Just go to "Tools > Options" and change copy to create links.
Windows XP:
Download junction.exe from microsoft:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx
and put it into the junction folder of the playlist manager.
You should also install "ntfslink" (http://elsdoerfer.name/=ntfslink )
To make the use of the links (junctions) save with windos xp.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point#Windows_XP_Professional
for more information.
And now go to "Tools > Options" and change copy to create links.
Not possible with wow. As is playing a song at a specific position.
An addon can only tell wow to play and stop a song thats it.
Where the hell is the playlist?
"..\World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\ACCOUNTNAME\SavedVariables\EpicMusicPlayer.lua"
Troubleshooting
music stops in fight
The music sometimes stops or the wow music starts playing. This is a wow bug. Try to set your sound channels to maximum. Options > Sound & Voice > Sound Channels > High (Maximum) Also try to enable/disable hardware sound. But when lots of sounds are played (raid instance fights) the problem still may occur.
music plays from beginning
The song stops playing and starts from the beginning after a loading screen (e.g. entering an instance or /console reloadui) This is a new wow bug since patch 2.4.3. I only could fix this so far that the song starts from start instead playing the game music.
I have reported this in the eu forums but unless someone with an us account finally reports this in the us ui-forum blizzard developers will never know of this because they are not interested in any thing from the eu community.
And it's not the zone change because this was not a problem before 2.4.3 and the music also stops if you try to enter a low level instance in heroic mode. That of course is not possible but you get an loading screen for less than a second and the music played by the game itself or by an addon stops but a zone change event is not fired.
playlist manager not starting
You need the at least Java 6 installed, sry. http:\\java.com
You have installed Java and the playlist manager is still not starting?
Edit the batch file create_playlist.bat (right click -> edit) and change EVERY java.exe to the full path of your LATEST java.exe (see C:\Program Files\Java\).
For instance:
java.exe -version
will become:
"C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe" -version
and
java.exe -jar EMP_Playlist_Manager.jar
will become:
"C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe" -jar EMP_Playlist_Manager.jar
Don't forget the double quotas (") it does not work without them!
playlist manager error
I get the following error with the playlist manager "Could not Find Main Class.Program Will Exit"
You get this error when the lib folder is not in the same folder as EMP_Playlist_Manager.jar
You can't run the EMP_Playlist_Manager.jar from the zip file, you have to extract the whole zip first.
You miss a feature, don't like something about the player or have a problem to set it up? Please let me know.
I look forward to your feedback.
v2.0.5
Playlist-Manager:
.) added support for flac media files
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
