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I had a decoder for GME (Game Music Engine, I believe) a while back, but these formats contain multiple tracks per file. I had a hack at the time to use the seek bar to change tracks, but it didn't work well at all.
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Interesting. How did it work exactly?
I would imagine that when you load a multi-track file, two buttons "Prev/Next Track in File" would appear together left (or right) of the seek bar, or alternatively, they would appear separately, one on each side of the seek bar.
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It worked with the seek bar. It wasn't updated, and you couldn't seek within the individual tracks. The seek bar would go between 0:00 and n (formatted like a time), where n was the number of tracks.
I think i'd rather have each appear as separate entries in the playlist. Maybe the filename would be filename#Track if there is no metadata. So something like: tetris.gb#0.
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interesting idea Vspader.
How about a tree-formatted layout?
So you get
someotherfile
Tetris
Track1
Track2
someotherfile
?
Also, not checked over on the website, but does VLC support VG formats?
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I'm not a fan of the tree format. Say I wanted to listen to track 3 of tetris, then track 4 of super mario brothers?
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Would it be possible to treat these files as playlists? That's sort of how I'd expect one of these files to work. Add a file, Cog sees 8 tracks and adds them.. No fussing about with weird trees and all that.
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Hi guys,
I've been using Cog since I got my Macbook last year for mp3/etc playback and just decided to look for an alternative to Audio Overload for vg music, since it's a little buggy (crashes on a lot of minipsf2 files, like the entire FFX soundtrack) and very awkward (it doesn't advance to the next track at the end of a track).
I was excited when I found this thread, but it seems the included GME library doesn't support psf*/minipsf* files.
Has anyone looked at using the HE (Highly Experimental) library to allow these formats to be played? It seems to be the least buggy, although it's designed for Winamp and XMPlay on Windows.
So, err, I guess it might be a big porting effort. How do you guys usually go about such things?
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Hmm...
Yeah, would Highly Experimental be a viable option?
The HE plugin is what I used in Winamp to play PSF/miniPSF/PSF2/miniPSF2 files.