tomaspollak

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by tomaspollak 1y ago
Great work! Maybe you can add an option to use the 'heightmap' method described by Justin in his blog post. And maybe let users add their own palettes? :)
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
Figuring out how to add game boxart and screenshots to my recently-relaunched MIDI and chiptune player: https://pixeltune.org/ It's a fun challenge, because I need to figure out how to reliably determine the matching g
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
Ok I found it! For some reason those files have an invalid header. I added a workaround so they should play fine now.
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I _did_ fix a bug last night so it might be working already. The "Invalid DataView length" error seems like a parsing error... maybe try using a different set of songs? Anyway, I'll take a deeper look
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
Ok, WebMIDI support is live. Try it out and let me know if it works. :)
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
Oh wow, I just checked the prices on the MT-32 and IT IS N-U-T-S! Hope you can find a good one without breaking the bank. :)
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
Yes, as I mentioned in other comment, Pixeltune applies a reverb effect on some of the cores. There's currently no way to turn it off but there will in the near future. :) Kudos for sfc.fm by the way!
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
Woot!
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
Yes, track duration is on the TODO list. I will also add an "export data" option for you, so you can rest safe that you won't lose your beautifully curated playlists. :)
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
Oh, yes. That's because the Famitracker port I'm using[0] is a bit old and doesn't support the newer .ftm versions. So in case the player doesn't support a given song, there's a fallback to using FTMtoMID so you can
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
Good question. I was thinking of eventually putting the whole archive in a decentralized system like IPFS, but I guess archive.org is also fine. However I want to wait a bit before doing so, because some of the archive sources haven't
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
Will check. Thanks for the heads up.
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
I still haven't tested the player on mobiles thoroughly. Do you at least see the oscilloscope running?
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
Thank you. I have a few minimal/ambient playlists that are great for concentration. I'll include one or two in the featured section!
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
That's precisely the source of inspiration!
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
Chip Player is awesome. I love the retro-looking UI.
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
Yes, as I mentioned in another comment, the player has a time limit on songs to prevent them from looping forever. I'll include an option to let you modify this, so you can listen to them _almost_ forever.
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
This is actually possible already, but I couldn't finish the UI part on time. Give me a few days and I'll add the option. PS. I also have a SC-55, nothing beats the original!
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
Around 25 GB in total. Originally managed using a Git repository until it became unmanageable... I just checked the song count, by the way, and it's actually 503305, contained in 441902 files (some files can hold multiple tracks).
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
Ok case closed. The maximum option will be 30 minutes then!
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
;)
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
Yes indeed. Pixeltune adds a reverb effect on top of the output of some cores. I'll include an option to turn it off. Good one!
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
Time, of course. ;) Already at the top of the TODO list, though.
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
And this comment improved mine!
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
I didn't know about that one. Thanks!
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
Thanks mate!
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
You're right! This is definitely doable, but... wouldn't you eventually want to listen to _other_ songs? There's currently a 2:30 min time limit on songs so that they don't loop forever. I plan to make this configurabl
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Show HN: Pixeltune, a nicer chiptune and VGM player(pixeltune.org)
80 points by tomaspollak 2y ago|52 comments
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by tomaspollak 2y ago
A few months ago I wrote a small program to view and play animated GIFs, but letting you pause, skip, etc like it was a video. In case anyone's interested, here it is: https://github.com/tomas/pixelhopper Fun fact
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by tomaspollak 3y ago
https://tomas.github.io/jix/ Yet another Git client for the terminal. ;) It's been on "coming soon" mode for some time now, because I haven't gotten the time to finish some stuff that's missing

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