Download SimplePlay 3.8 Now -- Released 1st August 2009

What is it??
This music player enables AmigaOS4 users to play the following music and sound formats:
MP3, MOD, IT, S3M, XM, WAV, VOC, OGG, MIDI

It was written using the Music functions that are built-in to SDL_Mixer (which is part of Simple Direct Media Layer).

Features
- ARexx port for controlling and sending commands to other programs - Mini-scope for fun-ness - Multiple playlist support. Also, unlike other Amiga music players, it automatically remembers the last playlist when you exit, and reloads it when you next start
- The "Jump function". Hit RAmiga+J to bring up the Jump Window, or select it from the Pull down menu, and then type some characters of the song you want to play. It will build a list as you type. You can use the cursor keys or the mouse to get to the song you want, and hit enter or double click on it to play. Fast easy way to find songs in a large collection.
- Launch SimplePlay normally and it will open a GUI. Alternatively, you can run it in shell with a song name as the first argument and it will play that one song. Control+C will abort playback. Add this to your browsers MIME types if you want

Screenshot 1 - SimplePlay's Main Display
Screenshot 2 - An Example of the Jump Find Function

Changes v3.8
- Rearranged the graphical toolbar
- Bugfix: wasn't saving "last dir" in certain places
- Moved all playback code to play_song() function, in preparation for moving away from SDL_Mixer to mpega.library.. basing the new program loosely on SimplePlay, but geared towards MP3 playback.
- Will now skip to next song on error, instead of halting playback with an error window
- Included a new script to send "is listening to" information to SabreMSN
- Bugfix: loads settings.txt from progdir: now, so it doesnt have errors when launching simpleplay from a different dir
- My crappy scope can be disabled now

Changes 3.7
- AISS is used for a graphical toolbar
- Added a fun little scope.
- The Text Objects (such as the currently playing Song name) are now clipped if they are too wide for the display. Before it would sometimes clip fine, but then make the window a lot wider when iconifying then reopening.
- Added an ARexx port, to listen for NEXT, PLAY, PREVIOUS, PAUSE, STOP, VOLUMEUP, VOLUMEDOWN, SETVOLUME, SHUFFLE. GETSONGNAME. Example scripts are provided.
- "Previous" function will now take you to the previous song you played, instead of the previous song in the playlist
- "Next" function will start the playback if playback is currently stopped.
- SimplePlay stops playback when it reaches the end of the playlist now (unless in shuffle mode).
- Music will now resume if you press play after pressing pause. (previously it would restart the song)
- Added some rewind/fast forward buttons. The music library I use pretty much has to rewind the song everytime you want to set the position. The function is slower at the beginning of the song, and gets slower the more it has to seek into the file. This only works for MP3 and OGG at the moment.
- Shuffle mode is remembered next time you load SimplePlay
- An ARexx script can be executed when you play a song. Configure this by selecting "Settings" from the pulldown menu. I have provided a script that sends text to WookieChat to tell everyone what song you just started. Remember to enable WookieChat's ARexx by setting the icon tooltype to arexx=true before starting.
- "Add Directory" works recursively now, thanks to Chris Handley!

Changes 3.6
- Removed recursive dir opening due to being buggy
- Compiled with the latest SDL which fixes a crash bug under the debug kernel
- Fixed error with clearing the Jump Find window under the debug kernel

Changes 3.5
- Clicking on a entry in your playlist while playing music back will make that entry be played next on the list. (This works in normal and shuffle playback modes, but not Repeat)
- MUI custom classes that arent used are now hidden in "MUI Settings"

Changes 3.4
- Whoops, I broke the playlist in v3.3

Changes 3.3
- "Open directory" now operates recursively, adding all subdirs inside as well
- Fixed up some potential crashes

Changes 3.2
- Shuffle and Repeat playing modes added.
- Bugfix: after a playing a song located using Jump Find, it plays the next song in the list now.

Changes 3.1
- Song name and Elapsed time is now displayed
- Fixed a playlist bug. It was adding the termination character to text strings about one character too far. So playlists were able to be corrupted after loading and saving sometimes.
- Jump find has been improved slightly. Converts _ into spaces internally when searching for songs. So for example the song "Christina_Vidal_-_Take_Me_Away.mp3" can be found if you type in the words "take me away"
- The default icon priority is now higher to help prevent playback stuttering e.g. when accessing menus and scrolling in aweb.