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[Flash] Amiga Music Replay
benny!:
Hi all,
I spend some time in the last days investigating libraries/sources to replay amiga music wihtin the Flash platform. I want to share my current results with you and of course I would love to hear your experiences, suggestions and feedback.
Here are the libraries/sources I had a look at so far:
FLOD Pro
http://www.photonstorm.com/flod
It supports the .mod Amiga format and works quite well. Using the Beginner's Guide it is really easy to make it work.
FLODEx
http://www.photonstorm.com/archives/720/flodex-1-01-sidmon-future-composer-and-bp-soundmod-supported
This is by the same author of FLOD. It is a replay library for the following synthetic music formats:
- FC (my personal favorite!!!)
- BP Soundmon
- Sidmon1 & Sidmon2
- Delta Music 1
- Delta Music 2 Player
- Digital Mugician Player
All in all, the usage of the lib is as easy as the FLOD Pro version. The sound quality is surprisingly good, too!
FLXMP
http://code.google.com/p/flxmp/
FLXMP stands for Flash Extended Module Player and it is one of the rare projects which offers the replay routine for FastTracker modules (.XM). However it is in a really early stage and a lot of tracker features are not yet implemented.
Conclusion (so far)
It is cool to see that there exists Amiga music replayers for the Flash platform. For the .MOD (4channel) format there seems to be quite stable versions available already. Even the soundquality of FlodEx for some exotic formats is good.
A drawback with all these players is that it consumes CPU power. CPU power you actually need for your games/demo fx. So, it is really hard to say if it is a good idea to have a comparable expensice audio replay when you could use a cheap MP3 replay.
I will keep this post/thread updated.
More known projects:
- 8Bitboy Had a quick look at it. Could not get it to work, but I give it another change soon
- FMP It is written in haXe - so you need to convert it to AS3.0 first in order to use it
Dr.Death:
Amazing find mate do you think we could use this on our site??
Now that would make it EVEN better :updance:
benny!:
Let's wait and see ;-) But tbh, using Flash you really need to watch on the performance site. Unfortunately, all those
libraries consumes CPU power (of course). So, performance-wise a simple MP3 is the best. But will see.
However, if you think about a background-music for the complete forum - this won't work as expected, since the forum software does a compelte site-reload each time you press on a link. That would mean the music would stop/restart on each pageload unless you do not put a music player in a popup.
Will see how it turns out.
Btw, during my research I find the following source. The complete synth/playback is written in Actionscript. The quality is just amazin IMHO:
http://lab.andre-michelle.com/georg-feil-1985-synth-sample
Best,
benny!
Dr.Death:
Lets hope i just thought it would be cool something a bit like Plopbox really would be good for the site ??
combatking0:
--- Quote from: benny! on April 13, 2011 ---However, if you think about a background-music for the complete forum - this won't work as expected, since the forum software does a compelte site-reload each time you press on a link. That would mean the music would stop/restart on each pageload unless you do not put a music player in a popup.
--- End quote ---
There is a way around this - you could write a Flash Shared Object once a second, or once every half second, to the client's cache which tells the Flash music player which track is playing and how far through it currently is.
It could even include other data, such as the current volume level, etc.
I'm working on adding this feature to my own Flash 8 MP3 player also, but it would be interesting to see those Amiga sound libraries in motion.
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