Mastodawn

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: https://masonasons.me/softs/FastPlay.zip

#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.

https://masonasons.me/softs/FastPlay.zip

#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.

https://masonasons.me/softs/FastPlay.zip

#FastPlay 0.4.2: Add convolution reverb.
Add all files option to the open file dialog.
Add chapter seeking option.
in the speak now playing key, remove the now playing: text
Make it so shift numbers show a text field in a dialog with the tag that that number key would speak.
Add open folder option
Add playlist manager dialog, control P. Allows you to modify the current playlist. You can add files to it by pasting them, move them with alt up and down arrows, delete them with delete.

https://masonasons.me/softs/FastPlay.zip

#FastPlay 0.4.3: Add scheduler for scheduling playback/recording from within the app!
Fix a bug report where now playing song titles didn't continue parsing past an apostrophe character.
Add a keystroke, u, to mute the player. This works in such a way where recording the player would still work but you wouldn't hear the player output.
Add backspace to reset the current effect slider to it's default value.
Adjust it so that player volume does not affect recording volume.
More adjustments to volume curve.
Add volume step setting to options/playback.

https://masonasons.me/softs/FastPlay.zip

#FastPlay 0.4.4: Add an option to make playback rate adjust by semitones instead of .01X
Add a use legacy volume adjustment checkbox to advanced, for those who don't care about volume affecting recordings and want it to respond quickly.
Add an option to not show track filenames in the window title.
In addition to this, improve window title display so that it shows much more useful track information than before.
Fix the scheduler so that when set to both playback and recording, the audio is now correctly muted.
Add an import button to the radio dialog, for importing M3U or pls streams.
Add the promised search tab to the radio dialog, which lets you search RadioBrowser, TuneIn, iHeart Radio.
Adjust rate feature to not rely on the tempo algorithm being BassFX/Sound Touch.
Fix pasting into the playlist view.
Load folders from m3u's.

https://masonasons.me/softs/FastPlay.zip

#FastPlay 0.4.5: Legacy volume mode fixes. https://masonasons.me/softs/FastPlay.zip

@Bri I tried to access the FastPlay download with all my browsers. Even Chrome on the iPhone. I got the. "This page can't provide a secure connection."

@NightDrake Try this: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/laafbf0j48x07cyilaioi/FastPlay.zip?rlkey=0eb0g8rxu4vsv5lsnnu67yshy&dl=1

@Bri Thanks! That did work. Is it going to be a pain in the ass to provide Dropbox links? I don't at all want to inconvenience you.

@NightDrake Oh no, not at all! Just a simple paste

@Bri Woohoo! And thanks for being considerate. Should I save that link? Or will it change every time there's a release?

@NightDrake Due to the stupid nature of Dropbox links, it will unfortunately change every time the link changes

@Bri I thought you might say that. But now that at least one person is having the issue I'm sure you'll hopefully remember to add them. I don't at all want to nag. That isn't what I do. 🙌

@NightDrake I might forget. I'm only human. But I'll do my best

@Bri Sweet. I'll ask then if I don't see a link. I've never at all thought humans forgot a thing. *teasing of course*

@NightDrake hahaha

@Bri Is there a file I can copy from TweeseCake that has my 60 something internet Radio station Bookmarks into Fast.Play? Or is copying the URL's and adding them that way the best way to go about it? I'm excited that it adds my stations URL's in alphabetical order. The little things and all.

@NightDrake Shoot. Unfortunately, no, you would have to add them all manually. Tweesecake has a custom format for storing radio stations.

@Bri Oh, that's fine. I'm not minding doing that at all. I just thought I'd ask. At least it's not thousands. So there is that.

@NightDrake True!

@Bri Is there a file I should save that has all the stations I've added just in case something messes up? So I won't have to do this again? Sorry for all the questions.

@NightDrake Fastplay stores it's stations in the fastplay.db file.

@Bri Sweet! Thanks. That's all the questions I have for now. I do hope I'm not bothering you. But tell me if I am.

@NightDrake not at all!

Peggy Kern Jan 26

@Bri @NightDrake I haven’t figured out yet how to add radio stations. I tried finding the stream links for a couple stations, with no success. Any suggestions how to go about it?