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Version: 1.0
Status: Version 2.0b - 75%
Genre: General Software
Type: Audio/Video Player
Development Priority: High

Description: The Biotech Audio Player is a small, free piece of software that enables you to play both custom and commercial audio CDs with amazing quality. It is capable of playing all primary sound files (.mp3, .wav, .wma, etc.) as well as rarer ones such as (.midi and .mid). Upcoming versions will also enable you to play even more sound files, and you will also be able to large varieties of video and movie files. You can even play multiple sounds and movies simultaneously. The audio player has several built-in visualization engines for you viewing pleasure. We are also working on new engines that will be added to future versions and allow for even greater customization of the player.

Features:
-Plays both custom burned and commercial CDs!
-Can handle wide varieties of sound files so that there's no chance of a CD not playing!
-Has 5 professional grade visualizations - all accessible with the click of a button!
-Has a built in minimized mode in order to save unnecessary processor usage!

Features being developed (most are practically complete)
-Be able to load and play an even wider range of audio files straight from your hard drive!
-Be able to load and play a wide variety of videos straight from your hard drive - you can even play several at once!
-Immense amounts of visualizations that can be custom fitted straight to your software and computer specifications!
-Fully customizable skins to make the player completely unique!

Screenshots*:
Screenshot 1 [Low]
Screenshot 2 [Low]
Screenshot 3 [Low]

*Users with slower connections may find it easier to load the lower quality images. Please note that the full particle effects may appear to be slightly muddled in those images.

Bug List:

None known thus far.

Wow! Sounds cool! I'm downloading now. Review to come.
-- *DWAN*

Trust me, it'll only get cooler. :P WDYT?

pretty good! :) sprites could do with a bit of improvement but otherwise it is good! :)

In what ways?

well just more shading and more colours and more technical bits (Biotech stylee) :D

EDIT: what is that biotech font anyway? can i get it?

Ooh! Looks cool! I'll download it and try it out. :D :lol:

Think you can help out with it a little bit?

I'll try to upload it somewhere.

yup! did you create it?

Yep. All the graphics in there were custom sprited/coded by me. :D

yup i'll happily help with the game! ;) oh and i was talkingbout the font...

I've uploaded the pic and sent a PM to ya. Have fun! :D Yes, I know you meant the font. I'm working on getting that uploaded too.

k thanx!

Any features that you guys would like to see implemented?

a visualizer! :o ya know those bar thingees! ;) where they go up and down when a song is played! :)

There's already one of those in there. ;)

Pretty good, I love the fact that it actually plays CD's. *didn't know Gamemaker could program that* -shrugs- A few things I'd improve on are A. The Visualizer. It could be something abit more indepth, or sound driven maybe B. The Player looks good, but It could be abit more sleek, maybe a 3D generated sprite? C. Ripping ability maybe?

A - It is semi-sound based. Clearly it isn't as accurate as the high-end ones, but it works.

B - Feel free to fool around with that idea. :P

C - I can see if I can figure out a way to do it. That'll probably be a late feature though.

Cool. I might fool around with that this afternoon. And I'm too lazy to read the readme, is there an internal volume built in?

Not at the moment, I'm still working on that. GM can only modify the volume of midis and wavs, so I'd have to work on a dll extension that modified volume or something, otherwise it'd only work on those select sound types, and it'd get pretty annoying to have the wav all nice and quiet and then have an mp3 blaze out of the speakers because it isn't affected by the basic volume control.

lol.. k.. what about track listing? Can it extract that info from the CD, or at least the amount of tracks?

I think I'll do some of that. Making a list of tracks is difficult, but I can definitely have it say how many tracks there are. I can also do stuff with the tags (name, album, author, etc.), but that's still a little glitchy.

Ok.. having at least a track list *nonspecific* could help if you wanted to say jump to track 10 without pressing skip repeatedly.

I could theoretically have some listing of tracks, but the software isn't really designed to do it. It's doable, but not very practical, and it'd still be fairly limited. I might just setup something where you could enter in a number and it'd jump to that track. Simpler to program and it saves UI space.

That works. Just as long as you could jump tracks efficiently where skipping isn't.

Well, entering a number isn't quite as simple as clicking something on a list, but it's pretty close.

-:i::n:-

Nonetheless, it beats pressing skip 10 times. v_v
-:z::a::c::h:-

Heh, true. Any specific kinds of sound files that you'd like to be able to play (besides mp3, wav, etc.)?

.wmv? Would make it easier considering how many CD's I've had ripped through windows media player. I don't suppose Perfect Clarity Audio is doable though.. is it?

-:z::a::c::h:-

I think I can do .wmv. No clue about PCA. Probably not.

lol.. K.. and yeah I do honestly doubt .pca is gonna work. It'd likely overload the player or something.

I dunno about that. It just gets a little difficult to code programs that run files I have no clue how to use.

Well, PCA file formats are huge, so if nothing else it'd slow it down. v_v

Maybe. Again, it all depends. If it's reading off a CD, probably not. If it's reading a file off your computer, it might. It depends a lot on your RAM.

I haven't tested sound capability yet but...

Make the quit button easier to find plz.

Improve the graphics for the control buttons.

And that's about it...

Graphics -are- indeed being worked on unofficially at this point. =D

What are you up to now Zach?

Yeah, that quit button can be difficult to find.

>_>


Nothing. Nothing at all. And yeah actually the quit button is abit hard to find.

Well, I had tried to put a red 'X' on it, but I couldn't get it to look right, so it never made the final cut.

Maybe makin it bigger would help...

Or only make the x appear when you put the mouse over it?