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CL-Amp 7 comments  version: 3.3  Published by: Claes Löfqvist Date Posted: 6/22/1999 Last Updated: 1/17/2000 License: Freeware Rating: 8.2 / 10 1 (worst) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (best)   531 votes Download CL-Amp:  Intel   R4   863 KB    Download  314 downloads   Source Not Available

Application Description:

CL-Amp is an advanced audio player that make use of the famous WinAmp's skins. Right now it can play mp3 (also variable rate), midi, mod, mtm, wav, aiff, snd, au, 669, amf, dsm, far, gdm, it, imf, med, m15, stm, stx, s3m, ult, uni, xm. It support plugins which will hopefully make more formats available in the future. Also able to cross fade and save audio as wave files... Features * Can play mp3 (also variable rate), midi, mod, mtm, wav, aiff, snd, au, 669, amf, dsm, far, gdm, it, imf, med, m15, stm, stx, s3m, ult, uni, xm. * Can handle playlists from APlayer, MidiWorld!, SoundPlay and WinAmp. (plus its own playlists, of course ;) * Fade in, fade out and cross fading. Everything adjustable to fit everyone... (ALT-F to get a window with fade prefs) * Can save the audio to wave files (including cross fading) * Supports id3 tags. Its also possible to edit them by selecting a mp3 song in the playlist and press I or E button. * Shade mode (double-click on the title bar!) * Double size mode (ALT-D is one possibility, works also in the play list) * Show played time or remaining time. (Click on the time display) * Playlist like WinAmp 2.x * Easy to change skin (right click in the window to get a menu and there you find the skin selector, ALT-S is another possibility...) * Drag files or directories to the main window and they will be the actual play list and play is started * Drag files or directories to the play list window and they will be added to the actual play list. Playing is not initiated. * Start CL-Amp from a shell and give songs as arguments and they will be played. * Volume bar * Position bar * Speed bar (automatic snap back to 100% is available) * Shuffle mode * Repeat mode * Spectrum analyzer. Note that no background color is used! It gives this cool effect: (The picture on the skin is visible even when the analyzer is working) * Volume analyzer when the player is in shade mode. (Turn off and on the Spectrum analyzer or the Volume bars by clicking on them!) * The play list can be docked to the main window. When the main window is moved around the playlist will move along! * Shoutcast and streamed audio. * Plugin support (not compatible with WinAmp (can't be))

3.3 Details:

* CL-Amp now handles incomplete skins... When something is missed it will be replaced with parts from the WinAmp skin in the same way WinAmp does. * Zipped skins are now supported. Just put a zipped skin archive in your Skins folder and CL-Amp should be able to use that skin! * WinAmp's own skin installation files (ext: .wsz and mime type: interface/x-winamp-skin) is now supported. Unlike WinAmp its okay for CL-Amp if they are put directly into the Skins folder... In there they will work as a normal skin. If they are somewhere else and dropped on CL-Amp they will be installed in the Skins folder and automatically become the currently used skin. If CL-Amp is made prefered app and the mime type is correct on the .wsz file, it should be possible to double click the .wsz file where after CL-Amp should then be launched (if not already running), the skin copied to the Skins folder and then selected as the current skin! Even better is perhaps clicking on a .wsz link in N+ which should start up CL-Amp with that new skin (and install the skin in your Skin folder)... * The terrible main menu has been cleaned up now! It should been done ages ago but I have been to lazy... I hope this new menu makes better sense! * Thanks to Jens Johansson several skin bugs have been corrected in the playlist. * A new option has been added: Allow launching multiple CL-Amps * Another new option is: Always just add files to the playlist

Old Version Details:  3.2

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Long time no see! I took a rest from coding and after a while ended up playing waaaay too much Unreal! I have just begun coding again and it felt like the Visual plugin support was something that had to be done! Unfortunatly, I will leave home in a couple of days and will not return until Christmas (I'm going to Australia :), which mean that I can't continue my coding before Christmas... But then I shall get going again! :-) The source code for the visual simple vu-meter is included in the DevKit! Please, go ahead and make vis plugins! Much people will be happy for your efforts... Btw: Thanks for all kind letters I receive!! I try to reply to everyone, but once in a while the reply address is wrong and I can't reply then! Be sure to check your e-mail preferences... * Visual plugin support (I have no dev docs ready, but perhaps I can do that in Australia (I will have my Laptop with me = Windows, uhh)) * A simple VU-Meter plugin is included to serve as an example. * Trent Trautman has also made a simple but anyway nice VU-Meter plugin. * 2 Tracker AddOns are included which simply can be installed. READ the document in the CL-Amp folder!! They will make it possible to left click on a file or folder and select "Add-Ons -> Play this with CL-Amp" or "Add-Ons -> Add this to CL-Amp's playlist" * Trent Trautman sent me this! Thanks for this and much more, Trent! * A nasty bug which created new threads every time the Add new file option was used... * A resizing problem with the Plugin window is fixed * Have you terminal guys tested Mikael Jansson's 2 fine front-ends? (Get them here: clr and CLStat) * Hint: Use Spicy keys to assign clr commands to certain keys. E.g. "ALT-n" could be assigned to "clr next fade" which make CL-Amp fading to the next song... Even volume can be controlled this cool way! (The PPC version does not contain the alternativ Amp plugin nor the Tracker Add-ons but it will hopefully change in the future)

Old Version Details:  3.01

R4/Intel   736 KB   4,316 DL's   Download    Source Not Available

I received some reports about a new bug in v3.0, which made CL-Amp to not refresh the main window when switching from a Workspace where CL-Amp was not visible! Sadly, I received a report about this from a beta tester before I released v3.0, but I forgot to fix it! :-( This is just a little bug fix version and if you don't have any problem with v3.0 you could ignore this one! Fixed in v3.01: * Fixed the main window refresh bug when switching Workspaces * Fixed a bug which made Mpg123 not starting from position 0% when such a repositioning was requested * Left and right arrow buttons in play list are now fast forwards and backwards as in the main window I had also forgot to put the newest docs in the DevKit archive (the Headers was okay, but not the doc)... It's added now!! (Get it at CL-Amp's homepage) Sorry for the inconvenience! -- Best regards Claes --

Old Version Details:  3.0

R4/Intel   736 KB   5,840 DL's   Download    Source Not Available

My plan was to take care of the small things, but then I received so many requests for a wave output plugin so I have worked hard to make this possible. I have also added stuff to the FrontEnd support and improved the Input Plugins a little. One side step is that CL-Amp 3.0 is not compatible with CL-Amp v2.x Input Plugins!! There was one cool Input Plugin on it's way and it NEEDED some new things... I thought it could be worth adding this stuff now when we still have a limited amount of input plugins available! I have of course recompiled all old ones already and they are included in the archive! (To convert an old plugin (if you have written one), just use the new Headers and recompile your project!) -- Best regards Claes -- * Wave output plugin! It's quite flexible and recording the fading is possible: I think it's very cool to burn a CD with 0 time between the tracks and having the cross fading on that CD! Read more about it in the Plugin section at CL-Amp homepage! * CL-Amp remembers the playlist when it's started. (The time and other info is also remembered and don't has to be reread again!! Plus in shuffle mode it also remembers which songs has been played and in which order! :-) Perfect for a large playlist and Shuffle and Repeat mode activated! * The Plugin and Skin window is not Modal any more! (you can work with CL-Amp while they are open). Fade window will follow soon... * The "bug" with the Skin selector and Focus Follows Mouse should be gone now * A minor error in the skin handling has been corrected. I streched the titlebar 1 pixel... oops... (Thanks Jens Johansson) * Input plugins can be deactivated. Could be good for some testing... * When CL-Amp is minimized or on another workspace the analyzer is stopped which will save some CPU time... (Thanks Wade Majors) * John Robinson has exterminated a memory leak bug in his fine MikMod Input Plugin! * New DevKit available at CL-Amp homepage. Output plugin and FrontEnd headers added. Input Plugin headers improved a little.

Old Version Details:  v2.7

R4/Intel   700 KB   1,421 DL's   Download    Source Not Available

* CL-Amp can read ShoutCast playlists now (they are called PLS playlists in WinAmp) * The memset crash that occoured sometimes in the Mpg123 plugin is found (Thanks to Thomas Neumann). I have written a letter to Michael Hipp (creator of Mpg123) about it so hopefully it will be fixed in the new version of Mpg123! I have made a work around that hopefully will make not crash at least! * A new plugin is added. It's a sinus wave tone generator... It's used by adding URL's like tone://440 to get a 440Hz tone or like guitar://2 to get the tone for the second string on a guitar. (One of my beta testers is now using CL-Amp to tune his guitar. :-) * CTRL-COMMAND-L is now causing the AddURL requester to pop up! * That requester is, by the way, now also remembering the last URL that has been written! * MiniDisc users has asked for an option to get a 3 seconds delay in between songs. It can be found in the menu now.... * Visualization on, is now in the menu also. It's easier to see if it's on or off now... :-)

Old Version Details:  2.6

R4/Intel   715 KB   305 DL's   Download    Source Not Available

* CL-Amp can read relative playlists now and can also read playlists from MS Windows, like WinAmp's m3u files (but they have to be relative, since C:, D: and so on... doesn't mean anything in BeOS ;-) * Previous song button works in Shuffle mode now! * Previous song can also be cross faded to now if you hold down the Shift key while you click on the Previous button! (Shift-Z on the keyboard) * You can also initiate fading if you hold down the Shift key when you turn off CL-Amp and when you drag a file (or folder) to the main window! * The clutter bar (the menu thing to the left of the time display) is working now. * The position bar in shade mode is working now!! Even here its possible to use the shift key to fine adjust the position! * The about 'button' in the main window does work now. * CL-Amp crashed when the id3 tag was changed on the currently playing song. This is fixed now. * CL-Amp crashed some times when cross fading or when you jumped around in songs. It seems okay now. * Be changed a priority which made CL-Amp much more sensitive under R4.5! This is fixed now... * Shoutcast support for playing ordinary mp3 files on normal sites is better now. * The title of a Shoutcast server is shown in the playlist when you successully played from the server once! It's much easier to find the favorite server in a list now! * The font and background color in the playlist is taken from the skin now. However, the old font bitmaps is not used, yet... * The plugin window now has a up and a down button. Plugins can be rearranged to get CL-Amp to use a specific plugin before another one. * Playing from NFS mounted partitions shall work now! * Thomas Neumann has updated his .mod/.mtm plugin. * Id3 tags couldn't be changed in files with a colon somewhere in the path. This is fixed now.

Old Version Details:  2.51

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