[Music] Jimmy's Jukebox -- Seeking dev assistance re:ZScript

[Gez]

It is. There's both MIDI and CD audio. Like for Hexen, there are more MIDI songs than CD tracks, so each level's theme song varies depending on whether you use CD or MIDI soundtrack.

[Jimmy]

Quick update: I've just handed a WIP version of v8 over to worst-vd-plas who is going to try and optimize the scripts to make it less of a jumblefuck. Should make the process of creating custom collections and exporting playlists much, much easier, too.

[Jimmy]

UPDATE TIME!

For those keeping track, v8 has not actually released yet, but instead I released the User Jukebox with v8's library system for the public to create their own collections with relative ease.

Well, Worst has been painstakingly making the whole process a metric ton easier to do - there's now absolutely zero compiling required should the author wish to create their own collection(s) - everything is now controlled within the LANGUAGE lump. Because the system has been so drastically overhauled, the next version of Jukebox will be designated v9.

I think you guys are going to like this next version. All that remains is for me to finish up a few of the tracks I have in progress, bundle them into the PK3 and update the collection information accordingly. I'm also thinking of creating a playlist editor in MAP00 so users can choose specifically which tracks to use in the playlist before starting the game.

[Gez]

I'm intrigued by this LANGUAGE-based approach. Can it still handle arbitrary amounts of tracks and albums?

[NeuralStunner]

I'm intrigued too, from a coding perspective. I'd like to know how to utilize this Language trick myself.

Though I can't actually think of many MIDI collections to add, since you got most of what I have.

(There's Warcraft 2, but those break horribly in ZDoom when they try to loop... Never got around to hacking them up to work.)

[Kate]

[wiki=StrParam]I can[/wiki] [wiki=StrCopy]only imagine[/wiki] [wiki=GetChar]the hackery[/wiki] [wiki=StrLen]involved in this[/wiki].

[insightguy]

are you including the unreleased tracks in this edition?

[Jimmy]

Gez: Yep.

Kate: Yeah, I think that pretty much nails it, from what I've seen of the code. Worst is going to make further optimizations to the code for Jukebox v9.5, in case some things are a bit too hacky. Here's a little snippet from the new LANGUAGE.Collections lump:

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// Contains information on all songs currently in the WAD.

[enu default]

/*
** COLLECTION KEYWORDS:
**
** COLLECTION1 = "LUMP" "#NAME" "#YEAR" "#FORMAT" "#AUTHORS";
** COL1TRK1 = "LUMP" "#ARTIST" "#TITLE" "#NOTE";
** NOTE1 = "TEXT";
**
** STO1S = " 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 2:1, 6, 7, 8, 9"
**         "10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18";
** 
*/

// These three are unused, should remove them soon..
COLLECTION0 = "ALLBLACK"  "#No Collection"  "#0000"  "#Singular"  "#Nobody";
COL0TRK0 = ""  "#---"  "#No Track"  "#0";
NOTE0 = "";

// THE ULTIMATE DOOM (22)
COL1TRK1   = "D_E1M1"   "#Bobby Prince"  "#At Doom's Gate"                 "#0";
COL1TRK2   = "D_E1M2"   "#Bobby Prince"  "#The Imp's Song"                 "#0";
COL1TRK3   = "D_E1M3"   "#Bobby Prince"  "#Dark Halls"                     "#0";
COL1TRK4   = "D_E1M4"   "#Bobby Prince"  "#Kitchen Ace (And Taking Names)" "#0";
COL1TRK5   = "D_E1M5"   "#Bobby Prince"  "#Suspense"                       "#0";
COL1TRK6   = "D_E1M6"   "#Bobby Prince"  "#On the Hunt"                    "#0";
COL1TRK7   = "D_E1M7"   "#Bobby Prince"  "#Demons on the Prey"             "#0";
COL1TRK8   = "D_E1M8"   "#Bobby Prince"  "#Sign of Evil"                   "#0";
COL1TRK9   = "D_E1M9"   "#Bobby Prince"  "#Hiding the Secrets"             "#0";
COL1TRK10  = "D_E2M1"   "#Bobby Prince"  "#I Sawed the Demons"             "#0";
COL1TRK11  = "D_E2M2"   "#Bobby Prince"  "#The Demons from Adrian's Pen"   "#0";
COL1TRK12  = "D_E2M3"   "#Bobby Prince"  "#Intermission from DOOM"         "#0";
COL1TRK13  = "D_E2M4"   "#Bobby Prince"  "#They're Going to Get You"       "#0";
COL1TRK14  = "D_E2M6"   "#Bobby Prince"  "#Sinister"                       "#0";
COL1TRK15  = "D_E2M7"   "#Bobby Prince"  "#Waltz of the Demons"            "#0";
COL1TRK16  = "D_E2M8"   "#Bobby Prince"  "#Nobody told me about id"        "#0";
COL1TRK17  = "D_E3M1"   "#Bobby Prince"  "#Hell Keep"                      "#0";
COL1TRK18  = "D_E3M2"   "#Bobby Prince"  "#Donna to the Rescue"            "#0";
COL1TRK19  = "D_E3M3"   "#Bobby Prince"  "#Deep into the Code"             "#0";
COL1TRK20  = "D_E3M8"   "#Bobby Prince"  "#Facing the Spider"              "#0";
COL1TRK21  = "D_BUNNY"  "#Bobby Prince"  "#Sweet Little Dead Bunny"        "#0";
COL1TRK22  = "D_VICTOR" "#Bobby Prince"  "#The End of DOOM"                "#0";

danyudanyu0821: Yes, that's on my to-do, along with adding a few more of the soundtracks that were suggested in this thread since v7. Gotta edit MAP00 first, of course.

[BlueFireZ88]

Are the unreleased Doom tracks going to make an appearance in V9?

[Jimmy]

That's what danyudanyu just inquired, and yes.

[Sgt Dopey]

Sorry for the bump but sometimes this can break fluidsynth, espically when you are cycling really fast through the jukebox

[insightguy]

That's what danyudanyu just inquired, and yes.

I hate my username. I accidentally switched the password and username

[wildweasel]

I hate my username. I accidentally switched the password and username

You'd probably better change all of your passwords.

[NeuralStunner]

And PM Randy for a name change, as well.

Jaegerman, sounds like an engine/interface issue (since the mod only uses stock music functions), in the case of switching tracks quickly it might be a good case for "don't do that".

I'd also make sure your processor can handle it, I've seen it noted that Fluid takes a bit more CPU power than TiMidity.

If "Reset Sound system" brings FluidSynth back online, that should help. Might want to put in a bug report, if you think something's broken - but I don't have any problems (other than a slight engine skip while a song loads).

[insightguy]

I hate my username. I accidentally switched the password and username

You'd probably better change all of your passwords.

I did

And PM Randy for a name change, as well.

Jaegerman, sounds like an engine/interface issue (since the mod only uses stock music functions), in the case of switching tracks quickly it might be a good case for "don't do that".

I'd also make sure your processor can handle it, I've seen it noted that Fluid takes a bit more CPU power than TiMidity.

If "Reset Sound system" brings FluidSynth back online, that should help. Might want to put in a bug report though, if you think something's broken.

Who is randy?