I saw some Youtube music-videos having really great visualizers and thought why cant media players be something that looks like that.
Something that you can put on your TV like steam big picture.
So i made this Media player. Its something like the opposite of foobar2000. It has almost no features but a cool UI.
[URL="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_RlMbVhkrSka1VZcV9lV1VBbDQ/edit?usp=sharing"]Download v1.2[/URL]
Video
[video=youtube;-GcxHH8a16M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GcxHH8a16M[/video]
Screenshots
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Help With Settings Xml.
Path to your media folder.
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<LibraryPath>E:\music</LibraryPath>
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If the it doesn't run smoothly you can try setting this down to 1.
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<DssaQuality>2</DssaQuality>
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You can set a custom resolution here (does not affect full screen resolution).
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<Width>1280</Width>
<Height>720</Height>
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If no Cover found this colors will be used.
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<DefaultColorA>#FF4C4C</DefaultColorA>
<DefaultColorB>#5482FF</DefaultColorB>
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Hey, love this idea.
But when it launches (Win 8) it just displays a small black rectangle. I have linked to my music.
Any other info I can supply to help?
you could try setting
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<ShowConsole>true</ShowConsole>
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and show me the result.
(Do you have a Nvidia Graphic Card?)
[QUOTE=ultradr3mer;40453518]you could try setting
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<ShowConsole>true</ShowConsole>
[/CODE]
and show me the result.
(Do you have a Nvidia Graphic Card?)[/QUOTE]
Enough info?
[t]http://puu.sh/2IK5C/45ac1276e3.png[/t]
I have another tester who has the same Problem he has a Nvidia Card too.
I cant start it.
This should give all the info you need [t]http://i.imgur.com/Je1coJP.png[/t]
Well right now im looking for Nvidia testers who can open my project in Visual Studio and step through the code for me.
If I get a free trial, and you haven't found anybody, I'd be happy too. Although it would be in an hour or so, and I'm new to programming so not sure how helpful I could be.
Ive added you on steam.
[QUOTE=whatthe;40453542]Enough info?
[t]http://puu.sh/2IK5C/45ac1276e3.png[/t][/QUOTE]
I get the same result.
Also Nvidia Card.
Same result, Nvidia, I have a copy of VS2012 Ultimate.
I tried to run it, got this:
[code]
Unhandled Exception: System.EntryPointNotFoundException: FindWindow
at (wrapper managed-to-native) UltraPlayer.Program:FindWindow (string,string)
at UltraPlayer.Program.Main () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.EntryPointNotFoundException: FindWindow
at (wrapper managed-to-native) UltraPlayer.Program:FindWindow (string,string)
at UltraPlayer.Program.Main () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 [/code]
I also get a black screen when starting the application.
I'm using a NVidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti.
[thumb]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7563650/erra.png[/thumb]
I did some debuging with whatthe today and i got over that bug with invalid operation and now its actually sowing most of the stuff only the visualizer and the bloom is buggy. But I'm sure i can fix that too.
We been doing some debugging, and we are making progress!
[t]http://puu.sh/2IXwS/77842c28bd.png[/t]
We've got it fixed now the link was updated.
Here is another one:
[URL="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_RlMbVhkrSkUU9tWFdJWXZ4dWs/edit?usp=sharing"]Download Fixed Version[/URL]
[QUOTE=ultradr3mer;40458789]We've got it fixed now the link was updated.
Here is another one:
[URL="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_RlMbVhkrSkUU9tWFdJWXZ4dWs/edit?usp=sharing"]Download Fixed Version[/URL][/QUOTE]
I love the UI. If only I actually had music to use... if you could make this somehow support Spotify, that'd be awesome.
[t]http://puu.sh/2J6QC.png[/t]
Works flawlessly. You should add the ability to switch drives using the in-application file explorer.
Entering characters into the search box is rather laggy for me and it doesn't seem to search for Album titles and other song info.
Also occasionally the visualizer seems to sort of stutter(which doesnt seem to be related to performance, since the rest of the time it's working rather fluently while Im playing a game on a different screen).
Otherwise this is pretty damn cool.
The bloom on white album covers is horrible though:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/vs6C5jg.png[/t]
Got a new Version
[URL="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_RlMbVhkrSka1VZcV9lV1VBbDQ/edit?usp=sharing"]Download v1.2[/URL]
[video=youtube;weqhQsCQrWM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weqhQsCQrWM[/video]
Changes
-Stream playback via .pls
-Enhanced search (indexes on launch)
-Removing files from playlist via right click
-Enhanced Visualizer
-Preventing overbrighting a bit by mixing in the original image
It'd be cool to add SMB! I have all of my music on a server in my house. I love these thing! Very pretty!
This is awesome! Any plans to open up a github for this project in the future?
This is pretty awesome, it'd be nice if I could full screen it on my second monitor though.
This is wicked cool. I really wanted to contribute, but you're definitely a much better programmer than myself, so I figured I'd go ahead and make a setup wizard for you. I guess it'll let allow people who aren't techies to download it, as I doubt a lot of my friends for an example, would be able to download it the way you do it now.
You can download it [URL="https://www.dropbox.com/s/27jdyymre3r8i97/UltraPlayer%20Setup%20-%20Version%201.2.rar"]here[/URL] :)
EDIT: [URL="https://www.dropbox.com/s/5d24jw5dn7mqoqb/UltraPlayer%20Setup%20-%20Version%201.2.exe"]Un-rared[/URL] version can be downloaded here, in case someone doesn't have Winrar or 7zip.
I just realized that this doesn't support FLAC. Darn.
No m4a support?
How do I use this with spotify? ( If possible )
[QUOTE=Duskling;40758840]How do I use this with spotify? ( If possible )[/QUOTE]
You can't, sadly.
A dynamic icon would be nice
Off topic but I really enjoy your taste in music
So I got it to work (I have a good laptop with an nvidia 670m). Maybe it's just me but it seems like a huge resource hog. I noticed chrome lagged a lot with it open, but that might be something else.
I like this a lot. In particular there are a few gui things you could change to make it a bit smoother, such as the icons not being too intuitive and what not, but in general I love the aesthetic and that's what you aimed for.
My most wanted features if you can add them would be the ability to resize the nonfullscreen window while using it and to switch between full/non without stopping the music.
I'm running on Windows XP and I'm getting a "non-valid Win32 application" error. Any idea why?
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