I haven’t been around a lot lately, and noone else seems to write blog posts, so other than a flame war in another post, things have been a bit quiet around here.
Now I actually have a PC again (and not a Mac with bootcamp), I hope to take up development again. I’ve been slowly playing with the media library on TuniacTNG.
For reference I got a Dell XPS 1530 laptop and am finding it a joy to use, the other laptop I’ve been using lately is a HP/Compaq nc6400 which is also very pleasant, it seems laptops have come a long way in the last few years in terms of niceness.
FLAC, WavePack, MusePack.. all now supported by tuniac, thanks mostly to Bits for having the will to bring them in… and thanks to me to (mostly) making them work properly.
- As an interesting side note, its one of the few (only?) 64Bit players to support these codecs. Another first for Tuniac (or second, you get the idea)
Along side the updates to the audio engine, a good few optimizations and a huge number of bug fixes, Tuniac is looking rather healthy again. And thanks to Bits enthusiasm I’m still interested in development.
So now to the point of this post:
We really need insterest in the new media library, which is the last old crummy piece of tuniac left, it ‘works’ but like old electrical wiring it needs replacing sometime soon, its going to be a fairly big job and, I fear, with my day job taking over a third of my day and sleep taking another, rather more than I can do alone in a sensible time frame.
So if you know of any way or of any one who can help out and contribute, let us know (and let them know). we need to rally the troups..
We also need someone to do a few web pages about tuniac, and someone to perster me to set up bugtracking s/w etc
Well I set up a dev blog so bits, slaine and I can all keep you updated with the cosmic fabulosity that is Tuniac development. So here goes on the update…
Other than getting the site back up and running, I’ve added XAudio2 support to Tuniac which replaces the existing sound output entirely, unfortunately its in Beta till march or may, and we’re not *supposed* to distribute the dll to use it… otherwise it actually works quite well!
There have been major improvements and fixes to the playlist stuff too Going forward, I want to fold some of the Tuniac2 code base into Tuniac 1 (the SQL media library and such) thus resulting in a better all round experience