AmigaAMP 2.25

Short:        MPEG audio player with GUI (68k/PPC)
Author:       Thomas Wenzel (www.toms-home.de)
Uploader:     toms aminet upload toms-home de see note below
Type:         mus/play
Version:      2.25
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

Note:
Aminet admins only: Use address from [Uploader] field to contact me
All others: Use the email address stated on my homepage www.toms-home.de

Introduction
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You want an audio player that really makes use of your high spec Amiga?
Here it is!

AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio player using mpega.library on the 68k
processor or the amp decoding engine in the PPC version. Additionally it
can make use of sndfile.library to play AIFF, WAV and 8SVX files. Playback
is done through the AHI audio system.

If you've got problems not related to the user interface but with AHI,
AsyncIO or mpega.library, PLEASE contact the corresponding author directly. 
I wouldn't be able to help you in this case.

Important: AmigaAMP is optimized for visual appearance and accuracy, not
for extremely low cpu load!

What does that mean? Well...if there's a percussion hit, you see it on the
analyzer immediately. Not half a second later, not half a second earlier.
People who say "I don't care about this, I just want to see some movement in
the display" should use another player :-)

However, if anyone has a fast PowerPC and a fast graphics card which ain't
got nothing to do but run the PPC version of Heretic-II, AmigaAMP is just
right :)


Requirements (not included in this archive!)
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AmigaOS 3.0 or higher
68030-50MHz processor or better
asyncio.library
AHI audio system

 For most of the skins:
 - picture.datatype v43
 - ilbm.datatype v44
 - bmp.datatype v40

 For the guigfx loading routines (optional)
 - guigfx.library v16
 - render.library v30

 For popup menus (optional)
 - popupmenu.library v9

 For compressed (wsz) skins (optional)
 - xadmaster.library v12

 For MP2/MP3 support on 68k systems (optional)
 - mpega.library (Aminet:util/libs/mpega_library.lha)

 For AIFF, WAV and 8SVX support (optional)
 - sndfile.library v1

History
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v2.25 - Fixed call to xadmaster.library
      - Fixed potential bugs in loading of complete directories
      - Fixed mouse button message handling
      - Improved playlist keyboard navigation
      - Fixed UTF support in ID2v3
      - Implemented basic ID2v4 support
      - Added 68000 version

v2.24 - Fixed race condition during preloading/seeking.
      - Improved DrawTask stability for Iconify().
      - Implemented NoOS4 keyword/tooltype to skip
        OS4-style UserPort sharing for MorphOS.

v2.23 - Cleaned up window handling routines.
        Fixes playlist window resizing bug in OS4.
        Known issues: Sometimes the window docking feature
        doesn't work under OS4. Closing and re-opening
        the Equalizer/Playlist window usually helps.

v2.22 - Added AREXX commands to get title, artist, etc.

v2.21 - Fixed a couple of bugs in GadTools interface

v2.20 - Improved GadTools GUI OS4 compatibility
      - Support for OS4 mouse wheel events
      - Improved loading of M3U playlists
      - Included latest AmigaAMP-Prefs release