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ROTunes


Download:	ROTunes.zip [195K]
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Version:	0.15 (26th Sep 2007)
32-bit:	Yes
Requirements:	RISC OS 4 or above 2600K wimpslot
Licence:	Freeware

Purpose

ROTunes is an MP3 player and management application loosely inspired by Apple's iTunes. The current version is only a beta-test, so I would appreciate any feedback. Please read the !Help file within the application before use, as that will explain known bugs and limitations.

What's New in this Version

v0.15 improves wimp polling for better efficiency, includes improved documentation and adds code to restore system beeps on quitting ROTunes.

To Do

In no particular order....

Extend smart playlist support to allow choosing specific artists or albums.
Add support for adding, deleting and moving tracks around within playlists.
Add support for audio CDs
Playlist/library merging/editing etc.
Add support for STDMMK (www.stdevel.com/software.html)
Find out why the system beep is corrupted on quitting ROTunes.
Make default window sizes smaller, to cater for lower resolution screen modes.

Current Limitations

At the present time I have no plans to add the following:

CD burning

iPod support (RISC OS doesn't seem to read the audio data!)

Visualization effects

CDDB lookup and support (may look into this once I'm happy with everything else!)

MP3 encoding from original audio CDs (maybe possible using third-party software though)

Graphic Equalizer

Streaming audio

Support for the Apple Music Store

Sharing

History

There follows a concise list of changes between each version, in reverse date order so that the latest changes are listed first.
N.B. The latest version may not necessarily be the released version, as current development is also shown here.

v0.16 (28th Sep 2007) a) Bug fix: Fix minor redraw bug whereby the 'track position' bar in the top toolbars slightly bled above the icon. b) Bug fix: Fix colour conversion so that the icons appear in the correct colour in 256 colour screen modes. v0.15 (26th Sep 2007) a) Slight amendment to wimp polling for more efficient running. b) More detailed instructions provided, to cater for automatic OR manual installation. c) Added code to restore system beep on quitting ROTunes. v0.14 (10th Apr 2006) a) Implemented smart playlists (first version, so please report any bugs or issues) b) Added debug mode (set in choices and appears in top toolbar) c) Made title icon slightly wider in top toolbar, along with time bar. v0.13 (17th Mar 2006) a) Added optional clock to bottom toolbar. b) Added 'alarm clock' (click SELECT on clock icon). v0.12a (15th Mar 2006) a) Bug fix: Silly typo which resulted in 'unknown variable' error when loading a fresh install. b) Amended templates so that only characters a-z, A-Z or 0-0 are allowed for playlist names. v0.12 (14th Mar 2006) a) Extended flexibility in theme manager, and included 'Matrix' theme to demonstrate new options. b) Extended size of toolbar icons to cater for larger desktop font sizes. c) Made default library column wider (22 characters) d) Bug fix: Redraw code in library colums didn't redraw correctly if you had more than about 8 playlists. e) Correctly zero 'tunedata' file when library is rescanned. f) Implemented playlist renaming. g) Preliminary support for 'smart' playlists added (although inactive) h) Fixed miscellaneous redraw bugs. i) Added improved display when ID3 is enabled for the main redraw. j) Enabled ID3 data to be used for mini window if 'Use ID3 data for display' is enabled. v0.11 (11th Mar 2006) a) Adjusted code so that volume window closes automatically when you move the mouse out of the window. b) Added 'High', 'Med' and 'Low' preset volume controls. c) Completely re-wrote main redraw code, providing better redraw for toolbars and library pane. d) Made the maximum number of tracks user configurable (default = 20000). e) Moved speaker icon to left of track number rather than track name, so that it's a fixed position. f) Prevent column dragging less than 160 (to always allow space for track numbers). g) Bug fix: When turning off 'Strip numbers in Track' the title icon in the large window and the mini window still stripped the leading number. h) Added new utility - Rescan ID3 data to automatically populate the track length and genre fields. (Click 'Abort ID3 scan' to stop it). i) Re-enabled Rescan Library utility. j) Added 'Masterlib' value to master choices file (to restore the master filepath after switching playlists) k) Fixed numerous playlist related bugs. l) Bug fix: Sorted background colours in theme definition. v0.10 (12th Feb 2006) a) Changed redraw code to shade in the position bar in the top toolbar. Colour is defined in the theme 'colours' file. b) Added external character mappings file to translate characters in filenames. See !ROTunes.resources.characters c) Added new choice of suppressing leading numbers in track names. d) Bug fix: Skipping next/previous track didn't update the genre information if you had shuffle mode turned off. e) Added interactive help messages for all the new features since v0.07. f) Added option to use ID3 data for main window (although this will slow redraw down because it has to read it from each file!) g) Added 'Help...' option to main menu. h) Bug fix: Correctly close last MP3 file if ROTunes is quit whilst paused. i) Disabled 'Rescan library' due to a rather serious bug being discovered. v0.09 (6th Feb 2006) a) Initialised font reference array to zero before calling Wimp_LoadTemplate - which should hopefully eliminate occasional 'Unable to bind font handle' errors on loading. b) Added 'ID3 tag ok' status to show when ID3 data has been correctly read from AMPlayer - to prove a recent suspected bug was actually iTunes getting it wrong and not ROTunes. :-) c) Adjusted filename filter routine so that leading numbers are only stripped from track names and not album or group names. d) Fixed redraw bug for updating iconbar icon when you change theme. v0.08 (5th Feb 2006) a) Removed max x and y for mini window from choices - as it's better if they're calculated automatically. b) Fixed bug in toolsprite calculation, so that the vertical scroll bar should be the correct width. c) Added support for 'track time' column. d) Added support for 'Last Played' column. e) Added track info window (menu option). f) Added partial support for 'My Rating' and 'Genre'. g) Added additional ID3 support, including ID3v2 h) Increased wimpslot to 2400K. i) Added error notification panel to bottom toolbar. j) Rewrote documentation in HTML (web) format. k) Renamed 'gfx' directory to 'themes' and eliminated the need for a 'themes' index, as the list of themes is now generated automatically. l) Re-designed Choices window a bit. m) Fixed minor bug in search routine which found matches spanning title and album or artist and track etc. n) Added 'total playing time' display to bottom toolbar. v0.07 (10th Sep 2005) a) Added 'Web site' button to info window. b) Moved sprite memory initialisation routine from skin manager to main init routine. c) Bug fix: When caller ID detects you hanging the phone up, !ROTunes switches back to the previous volume level and not volume level 1 - so it doesn't suddenly go loud if you've already lowered the volume. d) Bug fix: Adjust click on the speaker icon in the mini controller window acts consistently with the action in the large controller window. e) Moved Messages and Templates files into a resources directory. f) Added saving of shuffled order of data, so that the next time you load ROTunes it keeps the previous order of the shuffled data. Also speeds up loading as it no longer has to shuffle the data each time you load it. g) Extended main database from 10,000 tracks to 20,000 h) Added preliminary support for RComp's !MyMusic folder. i) Added some extra 'Utility' functions, mainly for de- bugging purposes, but decided to leave them in. j) Added visual indication of volume %age level. k) Added 'auto save' option. l) Added filtering to convert odd characters in display names (ie. display / as .) m) Added facility to change the 'library' window colour in the skin manager (to go with iTunes5 skin) :-) n) Amended colour conversion routine to not use the EVAL function. v0.06 (9th Apr 2005) a) Added mini control window. b) Made playlist generation and loading multi-tasking. c) Made choices window slightly bigger to allow for a larger desktop font size. d) Added support for Acorn's interactive help. e) Annotated choices file. f) Bug fix: Switching between volume levels whilst paused now works. v0.05 (1st Apr 2005) a) Tidied toolbar a bit, making it slightly wider. b) Improved redraw code so that the position pointer shouldn't flicker so much on slower machines. c) Amended choices window to left justify options, and make window a bit smaller. d) Removed :'s from templates. e) Updated choices window to cater for future expansion. f) Added 'Respect volume' choice. g) Added facility to change widths of columns. This feature also allows you to move them around. h) Added new menu option - Utilities. i) Added 'Stop on Quit' choice. j) Added 'Open playlist on load' choice. k) Made positional pointer a straight line instead of a diamond. Corrected slight error in positioning. m) Bug fix: Invisible iconbar icon on some versions of RISC OS. n) Added 'mute' icon for current track indicator when in paused mode. o) Correctly fixed toolsprites width detection for people who have installed different sized window tool icons (but left setting in choices just in case people want to manually change it anyway) v0.04 (28th Mar 2005) a) Allow reading of trackname from AMPlayer module, even if ROTunes is not actually playing it itself. b) Added preliminary support for reading ID3v1 tags. c) Added choices option to control ID3v1 support. d) Added support for Octopus CallerID to switch volume levels when the phone rings. Thanks to Jeremy Brayshaw for suggesting this feature. e) Added VU bars to the icon bar if you want such gimmicks :-) f) Amended code for positioning within track a bit better. g) Removed code to remove caret after doing a search, as this improves multiple searches. v0.03 (24th Mar 2005) a) Bug fix: Amended filtering of filenames to avoid removing numbers from the beginning of songs which actually have numbers at the start of them (eg. ELO's "21st Century Man") b) Added fast re-position within track by clicking on the little position bar in the toolbar to jump to specific positions within the current track. c) Added SELECT on iconbar toggle open/close main window. d) Added ADJUST on iconbar toggle volume settings. e) Rearranged top toolbar slightly to put volume controls on left side. f) Added drag and drop adding of files to playlists. g) Added additional choice ('toolsprites') to cater for narrow toolsprites when redrawing the main window. This should prevent the main window extending beyond the width of the outer window. v0.02 (16th Mar 2005) a) Bug fix: Lock up on initial loading and starting to play tune. This was due to a validation check in the redraw routine causing an infinite loop on certain combinations of directory structure whilst it was parsing the track name. b) Added smash hourglass function to error handing, so the hourglass is correctly turned off if an error occurs whilst it's on. v0.01 (15th Mar 2005) - Beta release v0.01 (5th Mar 2005) - Started coding!

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