cPlayer – The Rock Band Customs Player v2.4.0 [9/9/15]
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It sounds like what you want is like the REAPER RBN preview. That is well beyond the purpose of this program, not to mention I simply don’t have enough knowledge to make it happen.
v1.0.0
(First non-beta release! If you were using a beta version, please disregard all prior settings and Playlists and start from scratch)
- Added 'Start Insta-Mix' feature to create a sort of radio station like Pandora and Google Play - right-click on a song in the Playlist and select 'Start Insta-Mix', cPlayer will look through your entire Playlist for songs with the same genre, and similar BPM and song lengths and create a randomized Playlist for you - this is an educated guess, won't be perfect
- Added feature to display the current section name- click on Options -> Show section names
- Added new MIDI chart visual - Random: Note Names - will randomly choose an installed font, font size, and location and draw the name of the note
- Added ability to select which charts are displayed by the MIDI Visuals - click on Options -> Show MIDI chart visuals -> and enable/disable any tracks as you wish
- Added ability to select duration of crossfade between 4, 6 and 8 seconds - click on Options -> Crossfade settings -> enable/disable it here and select your preferred duration
- Added feature to randomize the Playlist - right-click on the Playlist and choose 'Randomize playlist'
- Added Go To feature so you can go directly to your search term without actually filtering the playlist - press Go To again and it'll continue to the next occurrence of the search term, etc - this is now the default behavior when pressing Enter after typing a search term
- Added Filter button in case you actually want to filter your playlist by your search term
- Improved grabbing and displaying of lyrics
- Quickly view where you'll be jumping to by hovering the mouse over the timeline - the time and section name (if available) will be displayed
- While dragging the slider seeking a section of the song, the author name is replaced with the time and section name (if available) to make it easier to find where to stop
- Added feature to quickly access the last five Playlists you've loaded - click on File -> Open recent... and pick the Playlist you want to load
- Pressing Space bar now pauses/resumes playback - or you can continue to use the Play/Pause button
- Pressing any letter while the Playlist is selected will take you to the next song in the Playlist that starts with that letter
- Pressing up or down while holding down the Alt key will move the selected song(s) up or down on your Playlist order
- Fixed out-of-sync "lag" in songs caused by poor math and not poor system performance - thanks to raynebc for catching the error
- Now displays total songs (filtered) and combined playtime of the songs on the top right of the program
- Removed annoying ding sound when pressing enter to search for a song
- Various under the hood fixes and improvements when working with MIDI files (thanks to raynebc for the update to midishrink)
- Various other bug fixes and improvements
Alright, so I’m sick and tired of testing this. So here we go. We’re out of beta.
Is it going to be perfect? Probably not. There’s a lot going on at any given point. But I have tested it on multiple computers, played with it in various ways. Seems to be working alright. Hopefully you get the same experience on your end I have on mine. I love playing back customs and making “Insta-Mixes”.
If you were on a BETA release, you’ll need to scrap all your settings and existing playlists, as these playlists in v1.0.0 store more information than on the BETA releases. Just start with a new folder and don’t transfer anything from your existing install.
Feel free to post bug reports and suggestions on this thread – but keep in mind I’m taking a break so I will not be updating any of my programs for at least a few weeks.
Enjoy.
Beta testing with little to no beta testers is like hitting your head against the wall repeatedly so that you can fix one problem to only find another.
Beta testing with little to no beta testers is like hitting your head against the wall repeatedly so that you can fix one problem to only find another.There’s only so much I can do to entice people to try the software. I really overestimated the reaction to this. I thought people would be going crazy over something like this. I had maybe 100 downloads of the two betas and like 4-5 comments via PM and Skype. Great beta testing
I would have posted the problems I experienced using it, but I don’t have the system specs you recommend. I’m still using Vista SP2 and my hardware was top-notch five years ago.
Love the idea, though, and when I finally upgrade my OS, I’m looking forward to utilizing it. At the moment, it plays back at a slow, chopped rate when I use it. Beautiful program, though.
I didn’t recommend any specs, I just mentioned my own.
But I’ve used it on my wife’s laptop and on my work computer, both of which are drastically underpowered compared to my PC, and it still worked fine.
So, what are your specs? Did you try v1.0.0? Did you try with everything disabled except the audio playback? What are the cpu and memory usage when you’re using it and it plays slowly?
So, what are your specs?Vista 64 bit, SP2
Gigabyte MB (AMD 790X & AMD SB750)
12GB DDR3 1333 RAM
AMD Phenom II X4 945 @ 3.0Ghz
GeForce GTX 750i w/ 2GB RAM
Did you try v1.0.0?Yes, this one and the beta behaved the same
Did you try with everything disabled except the audio playback?Same basic results, slightly better playback (very slight, still unusable)
What are the cpu and memory usage when you’re using it and it plays slowly?CPU: 4%
Memory basically didn’t budge from where it was.
Sorry I assumed it was my OS, but I figured my specs should be ok. I’ve had Far Cry 4 running on ultra settings – there HAS to be more going on in that game than in this program!
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Have you tried non-multitrack vs. multitrack and noticed any difference in performance?
Yeah you should definitely have no problems running this.Have you tried non-multitrack vs. multitrack and noticed any difference in performance?
I have some HMX cons – they do it. All the C3 cons do it. My own do it. Doesn’t seem to matter if they’re multi’s or not. The new Visualizer preview does the same stuttery thing also.
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That’s definitely a sox problem with your system. I rely on sox to play the audio, so that sucks.
You can try the following:
– put a WAV file in the bin folder.
– open a command prompt window, navigate to the bin folder and type in
sox filename.wav -d
and press enter. it should start playing the audio. does it play fine?
Maybe it’s an incompatibility issue with Sox and we might be able to figure it out.
You can try the following:– put a WAV file in the bin folder.
– open a command prompt window, navigate to the bin folder and type in
sox filename.wav -d
and press enter. it should start playing the audio. does it play fine?
Yes it does. No problem, sounds beautiful.
Well, that sucks. It’s definitely not a problem with the GUI itself, but with how sox is handling (or failing to properly handle) the moggs on your end. But you’re not the only one to have mentioned this issue. I’ll approach the sox gurus and see if they have an idea…although they’re not very helpful.
Just to be clear, you tried with a WAV file that is bigger than a CON’s mogg in file size, and that works fine, but then the CON file plays choppy?
Just to be clear, you tried with a WAV file that is bigger than a CON’s mogg in file size, and that works fine, but then the CON file plays choppy?Yes, I used the backing wav from one of my customs, then the custom itself. The custom stutters but the wav played fine under the command prompt. I’m sorry I did not let you know about this before – you know, when you were actually ASKING for feedback.
it’s alright. I’ll shoot a message to the sox peeps and see what they have to say.
hopefully others will chime in with their experience and we can try to find a common denominator for the choppy playback. if it works fine on my mother’s hp box and my basic work box, I don’t see why it wouldn’t on every system…but obviously it’s not.
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