easyaspi314 / agbplay

Music player for the most common GBA sound format

agbplay

"agbplay" is a music player with Terminal interface for GBA ROMs that use the most common (aka mp2k/m4a) sound engine format. The code itself is written in C++.

Quick overview:

Controls:

• Arrow Keys or HJKL: Navigate through the program
• Tab: Change between Playlist and Songlist
• A: Add the selected song to the playlist
• D: Delete the selected song from the playlist
• T: Toggle whether the song should be output to a file (see R and E)
• G: Drag the song through the playlist for ordering
• I: Force Song Restart
• O: Song Play/Pause
• P: Force Song Stop
• +=: Double the playback speed
• -: Halve the playback speed
• Enter: Toggle Track Muting
• M: Mute selected Track
• S: Solo selected Track
• U: Unmute all Tracks
• N: Rename the selected song in the playlisy
• E: Export selected songs to individual track files (to "workdirectory/wav")
• R: Export selected songs to files (non-split)
• B: Benchmark, Run the export program but don't write to file
• Q or Ctrl-D: Exit Program

Current state of things:

• ROMs can be loaded and scanned for the songtable automatically
• PCM playback works pretty much perfect, GB instruments sound great, but envelope curves are not 100% accurate
• Basic rendering to file done including dummy writing for benchmarking

Todo:

• Add missing key explanation for controls
• Fix wrong modulation curve (original uses triangle shaped waves, sine is being used currently)
• Implement Reverb for GS1 and GS2
• Change to an audio library that doesn't have annoying package dependecy issues and doesn't print ANYTHING messages on stdout
• Redo config system (perhaps in XML) to support games to share playlist (for games only differing in terms of language) and to allow multiple playlists for one game

Depenencies:

• boost
• portaudio
• (n)cursesw
• libsndfile

Compiling: Install all the required dev packages and run the Makefile (make).

The code itself is written to be cross-platform compatible. That's why I've decided to go with Boost and portaudio. I personally have tested it on 64 bit Cygwin (Windows) and 64 bit Debian Linux. Native Windows support with Visual Studio is NOT supported by me and I NEVER will. Getting terminal things to work on Windows with UTF-8, colors and resizing terminal just doesn't work.