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So I realize this is probably one of those things where you'll either be like meh, or ooh cool, but here's another thing I've been working on, mainly for my own personal use and a group of friends than anything, but I figured wtf, someone else here might enjoy this. This is #FastPlay, a little media player that I've been working on. It's not and will never be a full replacement for Foobar2000, and thus lacks things such as a converter and a media library, but has enough features I think for it to still be useful. It supports being able to be set as the default for formats, for example. I'll paste a bit from the readme here which explains what's unique about FastPlay: At the core of Fastplay are what we will call virtual sliders. Right now, there are two of these virtual sliders.
The first one adjusts things like your volume and any effects you choose to enable/add. You choose what this slider adjusts by using left and right brackets, and then adjust the value itself with up or down arrows.
The second slider allows you to do things such as seek and move between tracks. You adjust what this slider does by using comma and period, and you adjust the slider with left and right arrows.
You can choose what shows up in these sliders by heading to the options dialog, control comma.
More and download: masonasons.me/softs/FastPlay.zā€¦
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Brian Hartgen

Well, I didn't think anything could replace Winamp for me, but this could well be on the way to doing so.
You've even got elapsed time in there. I want to thank you first for including that in the status bar. I need to get that information on the clipboard for use in my audio cue sheets. I can get a script to do that. That's not an issue. You've included it there and that is what matters. The responsiveness when moving through files is excellent.
I was just going to write and tell you how wonderful I thought it was, but I've hit a major issue.
Often, I just cannot access it.
So if I minimise all apps and go to the desktop, it is no longer in the ALT tab order. That's a strange one.
If I go to File, Open URL, it doesn't play the stream. In fact, I cannot focus upon the app at all after that.
Audio playback of regular files works absolutely fine, and please remember I've only been using it for a short time. But those are the immediate problems.
One suggestion people are going to want: bookmarks in files.
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Right, I will check the system tray, but yes I think you ought to put a setting in there not to do that. As for bookmarks, I don't use them myself but a lot of people do. So you would want the ability to set a number of bookmarks on a file by file basis, or even one bookmark would do for a start. Have a keystroke to set a bookmark and another for a list of bookmarks to move to a specific one or remove them.
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look, I don't want to go on and on, and this is just me being ignorant, but what's up with the speed of your stuff compared to other code which is being worked on by large groups? Something's very strange and I don't get it. I thought more people working on something made it better, at least up to a point! If you don't touch FP again, I'm going to use it here instead of VLC. VLC has been available for years and is extremely popular. FP has been available for days and is actually faster on Windows. I may still use FB2k, but maybe FP will become my only player, not sure yet.
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#FastPlay 0.4.0: Add speedy as another tempo/pitch algorithm.
Add reverb algorithm adjustment.
Correctly show midi format in the file formats tab
Add option to have FastPlay not automatically hide to tray.
Add new bookmarks option. Press M to place a bookmark at the current position in the file. Press control M to open the list of bookmarks. Press enter on a bookmark to jump to it, or press delete to remove it.
Attempt to fix internet streaming crashes.
Add the ability to record the player's direct output. Useful in many applications, recording internet radio streams, recording affected audio, etc. Press R to toggle recording. Set up options in the recording tab.
Add a radio dialog, for saving and quickly playing internet radio streams. Search tab coming soon.
Thread youtube search, so NVDA doesn't freeze.

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#FastPlay 0.4.1: Add toggle record and speak now playing as an available global hotkey assignment
Add new speech tab, with some new settings for verbosity.
Fix volume over 100 setting
Add shuffle
Fix a bug with tags where they were getting cutoff in some cases.
Adjust volume curve and step.
Fix flac playback by actually including the proper version of bassflac.
Add home to jump to the beginning of the file.
Add J for jump to time.

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This is a much better release, really nice. Streaming works now especially when adding stations to the Radio dialog. Love the recording feature. I never expected that for a minimal player but a great idea. If you add the ability to schedule recordings to be made at specific times you have one hell of a player there. But if not, it's still wonderful. One suggestion. In Playback tab, where you have the ability to suppress speech output for track changes, can you apply that same setting to the volume level with up and down arrow so it doesn't tell us the volume percentage? I'll be using it a lot throughout the day.
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