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Post by David on Jun 6, 2011 17:40:21 GMT
I was discussing this with Fatdog and we both are not too fond of short previews. We prefer hearing the whole song as just looping a short section over and over can drive you crazy. We are still debating it though but right now it seems to be working really quite well.
Thanks David
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Post by raynebc on Jun 6, 2011 18:13:41 GMT
Could it be a user option as to whether the full song will always be played or if Phase Shift could be made to use preview.ogg if it is present for the chart?
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Post by knapman [FD] on Jun 6, 2011 19:29:01 GMT
currently it will default to using the preview ogg if file is found, if not play the full audio, but there is also a new menu option to either disable previews completely or ignore preview oggs and always play full audio, these will jump in 20% or so into the song and play the song as long as u care to listen for
on slower machines there is a noticable benefit to using the preview ogg, but on my machine i've compared modes and i can load previews from songs using 8 seperate oggs with no noticable delay over using the single preview ogg which was quite surprising, so personally im better off getting rid of my preview oggs, save some hd space
be interesting to hear how it runs on slower machines
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Post by David on Jun 6, 2011 19:58:01 GMT
I have added support for the preview start time tag though.
David
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Post by asskickulater on Jun 6, 2011 20:32:47 GMT
YAY!! I can ditch all the preview.ogg's im lookign forward to the next release for that alone!
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Post by raynebc on Jun 6, 2011 20:55:57 GMT
I have added support for the preview start time tag though. David That's great! Does it support a parameter to define the stop time or the length of the preview?
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Post by David on Jun 6, 2011 21:32:54 GMT
Not right now and I'm not sure if it's really needed. But I'm sure you're gonna challenge me on that David
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Post by raynebc on Jun 6, 2011 23:02:30 GMT
I can live with just a start time tag. How long will it play the preview in such a case? What's the format of the INI tag?
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Post by David on Jun 6, 2011 23:05:41 GMT
Currently it will run to the end of the song.
I'm using the one you mentioned preview_start_time = (time in milliseconds)
Thanks David
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Post by raynebc on Jun 6, 2011 23:21:47 GMT
I suppose for now, I'll continue to plan on having EOF create a preview.ogg, so the charter can control the start/stop point of the preview. If you add a preview_stop_time or a preview_length tag, let me know and I'll throw together something a little faster in EOF.
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