AMPlayer information

Description

AMPlayer is a module for playing Audio MPEG files. It currently supports MPEG 1.0, 2.0 and 2.5, layers I, II & III. Making a frontend is very easy, and the idea is that you make your own if you can. An example frontend is available.

Example frontend

Requirements:

• The Toolbox modules.
• 200MHz StrongARM minimum for realtime playback.
• A7000+ (or other ARM7500FE based machines) for realtime playback of limited bandwith clips.
• Any RISC OS machine at all with AmpApp for command line conversion.

List of main features

• Plays in the background, also outside the desktop.
• Support for ID3 and ID3v2 tags.
• Support for variable bitrate files (and Xing extensions).
• SWIs make it easy to create frontends.
• Supports plugins for destroying the music in interesting ways.
  There is an example filter plugin available here.
• Source will be released eventually.

Official Binary Distribution

These are the most recent binaries (version 1.39)

• Modules (StrongARM, ARM7500FE and other version)
• Example frontend and documentation
• AmpApp Command line decoders

There is now also an unofficial build of 1.39 that reportedly works on the Iyonix. It was created by Peter Naulls:

• Modules, frontend, & documentation
• AmpApp Command line decoders

The previous stable version (1.36) is available here:

• Modules (StrongARM, ARM7500FE and other version)
• Example frontend and documentation
• AmpApp Command line decoders

A selection of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) can be found here. Please read these before sending us bug reports or we'll spend all or free time answering questions again and not getting any development done.

It's well worth you visiting the ESP Music website and picking up the latest copy of the SharedSound module. It's free and will enable lots of different applications to play sounds at the same time.

Another thing worth picking up is John Duffell's excellent !Stream application that allows access to Internet Radio stations using the Shoutcast protocol. It can be found here among other useful things.

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