audioplayer (bass)

basic audioplayer written in freebasic and bass

• supported audio types .mp3, .mp4, .ogg, .wav
• supported playlists .m3u, .pls
• ascii interface

if present coverart will be extracted and written to file as thumb.jpg
When a file or path is specified the current dir and sub dir(s)
will be scanned for audio file(s) which will generate an internal playlist

usage

audioplayer.exe "path to file or folder"
if a file or path is specified the folder will be scanned for an audio file
if the folder has subfolder(s) these will be scanned for audio files as well.

generate .m3u: audioplayer "path to file or folder" "tag" "tagquery"
example: audioplayer.exe g:\data\mp3\classic artist beethoven
generates the m3u file beethoven.m3u
which then can be played by audioplayer.exe beethoven.m3u

• simple search so 195 is equivelant of ?195? or *195*
• runtime in seconds is not calculated default is #EXTINF:134
• no explicit wildcard support, only searchs on one tag
• supported tags artist, title, album, genre and year

configuration

basic config options in conf.ini
locale = <en, de, fr, nl>
defaultvolume = <0.0 .. 1.0>
playtype = <shuffle, linear>
' dynamic range compression
drc = <true, false>

requirements

bass.dll (32bit)
https://www.un4seen.com/

performance

windows 7 / windows 10(1903)
ram usage ~2.2MB / ~2.2MB
handles ~120 / 200
threads 7 / 8
cpu ~1% (low) / ~2%
tested on intel i5-6600T

navigation

press . to play next
press , to play previous
press ] to skip forward 10 secs
press [ to skip backwards 10 secs
press space to pause / play or mute / unmute
press r to restart
press l for linear / shuffle list play
press d for dynamic range compression
press - to increase volume
press + to decrease volume
press esc to quit

special thanks to

squall4226 for getmp3tag
see https://www.freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=149207&hilit=user+need+TALB+for+album#p149207 rosetta code for compoundtime
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Convert_seconds_to_compound_duration#FreeBASIC