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MEDPlayer V3.2 instructions
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MEDPlayer is a stand-alone player program for playing songs made in MED.
You may freely distribute it with your songs, and it can be started from
both CLI and Workbench.
MEDPlayer V3.2 can load sng+samples-format and MMD0-modules made in MED
V2.10 or later, or OctaMED (4-channel only). It can't load MED songs or
files created with previous versions of MED (1.12 or 2.0). I think it is
more important that MEDPlayer is as compact and quick as possible instead of
the ability to load millions of file formats. You can convert older files
by loading them to MED and saving them back again. Please note that there
may be problems with playing speed when loading modules saved with MED
V2.10. In that case, load the module into MED, correct the tempo2 (change
to 6) and save it back. Also, a bug in module save routine of MED 3.00
causes some modules to crash when played. You can fix the modules by
loading the module into MED and saving the file back.
MEDPlayer can play "standard" four channel Amiga songs, MIDI songs, and the
new "multi-modules".
MEDPlayer has the "2.0-look" and it works fine under 2.0 (as well as 1.3, of
course).
And now, the usage:
CLI:
medplayer <song> <num>
<song> is optional. If not specified, MEDPlayer window
appears and waits for your interaction. If <song> is
present, then the song is loaded. If it loaded OK,
then the playing will start. Press Ctrl-C to quit.
<num> If the <song> is a multi-module, you can select the
number of the song you want to play.
For example:
medplayer multimod 2 ;plays the second song of "multimod"
Workbench:
You can run MEDPlayer by double-clicking its icon. To
automatically play a song when its icon is clicked, set the
icon default tool (the default setting is MEDPlayer).
You can click the song icon and then shift-double click the
MEDPlayer icon to play that song. MEDPlayer always opens its
window when started from WB.
The MEDPlayer window:
When you start MEDPlayer from WB or CLI without arguments, the
window appears. There you'll find some gadgets that control the
playing.
The string gadget This holds the name of the current song.
You can load a new song by typing its path
and filename into this gadget.
Play Starts playing the song from the beginning.
Cont Plays the current song starting from the
point where you stopped it.
Stop Stops the playing
MIDI:Y/N This gadget allows you to turn MIDI on/off.
Freq Allows you to load a song by using a file-
requester. Note that this requires you to
have ASL.library V37 and AmigaDOS V37, so
you have to get Kickstart V2.0, before you
can use it.
< > With these gadgets you can select the song,
if there's a multi-module in memory.
There's now a some information displayed, when you play a song:
Sg:01/01 S:001/010 B:00/08 L:000
"Sg" shows the number of the current song, and the total number of
songs in this module.
"S" shows the position and the length of the playing sequence list.
"B" shows the current block number and the total number of blocks
in this song.
"L" is the current line number in this block.