MusicPlayer
| Last Update: | July 1, 2008 (2 weeks 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: | 226 |
| Downloads Total: | 187,676 |
| Favorites: | 330 |
| Comments: | 1,035 |
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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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sprantor saidtheres just one problem i hav with it......
i cant share the songs, ive done what it said: i shift clicked the song and sent it to my friend who also has musicplayer he recieved it but he cant play it.
could u help me fix this problem
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trysor saidYou can't send the song itself, as it is a file on your computer. When you shift-click it, it sends only the information about the song, so that your friends can easily see what song you talk about and / or listen to.
I made that feature for easy chit-chat.
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sprantor saidit works and oh my god it is aweosme!
best download ever man! soo sorry for getting angry awesome download man ive asked millions of ppl on wow to get it and they are all downloading it right now! =]
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trysor saidheh =)
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sprantor saidsorry my computer was laggy at the time i made the video
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trysor saidWhen you download the archive, just extract it to the <WoW> / Interface / Addons directory, where <WoW> is the filepath for WoW (usually C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft).
After you extract the files, do the points i listed below again, just this time in the folder, not the winrar archive.
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sprantor saidhey i made a video of what goes wrong heres the code:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLeYTDdMTq8
please watch it and tell me whats wrong
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sprantor saidlol cool thanx and yes my dads name is steve kehaya
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sprantor saidoh it could you please tell me what realm your in in the game?
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trysor saidI got 4 characters:
- Athariel
- Trysor
- Ethari
- Vaelstraz
All on Argent Dawn - EU
Is it Steve Kehaya? Say hi from me and Jens to him =)
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sprantor saidhey thanx m8 =] oh and by the way its me Daniel my dad knows your dad. his names steve
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sprantor saidhey plz plz help me! ive done everything correct and it still doesnt work ive been trying for hours! i really want to hav my music in the game that would be awesome soo nice work btw =] but could u make me a youtube video or somethin that might help me?
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trysor saidFrom scratch:
1) Exit WoW.
2) Add your mp3 files (note, mp3) in the music folder found in the addon's directory.
3) Use the playlistmaker . exe file to generate the playlist. Be sure to press the 'Generate' button before you close the application.
4) Start WoW and log in.
5) Pick a song and play your music =)
If this does not work for you, please post any error messages (if any) or the step you have a problem with. Also note that you need .NET Framework 2.0 or better for the playlistmaker to work.
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halo2021 saidI added songs to WoW\Interface\addons\MusicPlayer\Music\ and i use the playlist creator. I started up WoW and played some music. Some songs will play when others wont. The song length on the ones that wont are 00:00 and i right click them and it say 0 kb. What is going on? it is the same songs that wont play when i erase the folder and put them back in and create the playlist, the same ones that would not play before still wont, and the ones that do play, play when i re-add them. i have checked the songs Bitrate, size, Channels, audio sample rate, all that and more and i can not find a pattern that tells me why i cant get certain ones to play.
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trysor saidIt might be because of VBR (Variable Bit rate).
I suggest you download VBRFix, a program which hopefully fix your issue.
(Remember that unusual characters might cause problems, so be sure to check that first.)
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halo2021 saidhey, i downloaded it, and i "fixed" the files, they still dont work, i separated them out and cant find the reason why they wont work... there are NO patters i can find that would make them not work, i viewed all details and everything detail that is filled in one a broken file, is filled in some way on a working file...
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trysor saidThey might be corrupted. Are the source to where you got them reliable? I.e able to get new ones, from a different source, without a huge mess?
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IAmParadox saidSend me some of these "broken" files.
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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)