The Musician page: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/7162/themusician.html
(Reading this file or WEB Pages of above, please, consider that English is not my primary language. I did my best...)
Overview.
The Musician plays files having type 'WAVE','AIFF', 'AIFC', '.WAV', 'Midi','ULAW', 'sfil', 'BINA', sounds inside Movies ('MooV'), CD Audio tracks ('trak') and, at last, plays 'snd ' resources inside whatever file!
But the strength of The Musician is its scanning ability: it may explore your HDs, CDs, folders, diskettes, files, searching for sounds to play. For example you may drag your disks on The Musician then continuing your normal work: The Musician will play, asynchronously and in background, any file of above that will find.
According to your setting The Musician can play any sound immediately or after your consent, in this last case, whenever founds 'snd ' resources inside a file, it also conveys you how many sounds the file contains.
In addition you may instruct The Musician to collect aliases of sound files, while it's playing, so you may enjoy them, when you want, without perform another search.
The main window has a simple bar that meters the input level of the microphone, you may disable the bar through the preferences.
At last The Musician may show the QuickTime™ keyboard (for your fun!) and record new sounds in 'sfil' or 'AIFF' format.
The Musician is Internet Config, Drag Manager and Navigation Manager aware, moreover it's Appearance savvy. It requires at least System 7 to run and uses QuickTime™ to play some kind of files.
The Musician should work on any Macintosh using, at least, System 7. It's accelerated for PowerPC. Whether you've Appearance Manager you may take advantage of it. The same for Navigation Manager. Some menu items may be disabled if you don't have Internet Config 2.0 installed (only on PowerMac).
QuickTime™ 3 is needful to play 'WAVE', 'BINA', 'AIFC', '.WAV' and 'AIFF' (The Musician supports 'AIFF' even if you don't have QT3, but plays it synchronously).
QuickTime™ 2 is needful to play 'ULAW', 'Midi', 'trak' and 'MooV'.
Further infos.
Open items.
You can open disks, folders, files by Drag&Drop onto The Musician desktop icon, by selecting them through "File menu" or by dragging their icons on The Musician Main window.
Keys.
If you hold down option key, while drag or select an item, The Musician lets you set the preferences, before play!
Normally you can press Escape key to break playing.
Menus.
From "Internet Menu" you can open Internet Config , send me e-mails, visit my web pages or copy my addresses.
More.
•The Musician is able to use temporary memory, managing sounds, but, if some trouble occurs, you can try to increase its memory allocation.
•If you open The Musician by Drag&Drop on its desktop icon, it performs its job then quits.
•Remember: the level bar, appears only on main Window, the main Window appears only if you open The Musician by double click on its desktop icon (or by Apple Events).
•The level bar meters the input level of the microphone, the microphone may capture the speakers output level, as a result you may meter also the speakers output level (yes, it's a dirty trick!).Some Macintosh model disable the speaker when is tracking the input level. If it's your case, please, disable the Level Bar through the preferences then restart The Musician.
•Before playing Midi and CD Audio tracks, The Musician should convert them to Movie format (through QuickTime™). The Midi conversion is fast, on the contrary converting CD Audio tracks can be a rather long job! If you set "Audio CD import option", in "Preferences", The Musician shows the QickTime™ "Audio CD import option" dialog, before continuing. Through this dialog you may view the track lenght, decide to play only a portion of it, abort the conversion and more.
Acknowledgement:
Carla "The Stylist" Bidone.
Alessandro "The Doctor" Giolitti.
Lucilla Guendalina "The Leader" Moliterno.
Alessandro "The Ace" Levi Montalcini.
Fabrizio "The Guru" Oddone.
Jim Stout for "Jim's CDEF".
Peter Gildea.
A very very special thanks, for testing and precious suggestions, to Masatsugu "Mark" Nagata.
Author's note:
My software development group is made up by: me.
On the other hand, my beta-tester group is made up by: me.
This means that if you find a bug, both developer and beta-tester groups would greatly appreciate your reporting.
And don't forget to register your copy of The Musician. Remember that a shareware author should be supported. If you don’t pay for shareware software today, you will pay much more tomorrow for exactly the same features (but enclosed in a 'nice' commercial box).
Version history:
3.0.0 Unique FAT version. 'WAVE', 'AIFF', 'AIFC', '.WAV', 'Midi','MooV', 'ULAW', 'BINA', 'trak' support. Preferences. Keyboard. Ability to collect aliases of sound files. Ability to play collect aliases. Ability to record new sounds. Windows position saving. Level bar. Appearance savvy. Navigation Manager aware. Optimized Drag Manager support. Improved Modal Dialog filters. Better break keys management. Notification Manager support. Better alerts. Better error checking. Better error infos. Improved "Internet" routines. Linked with Internet Config 2.0. Linked with MoreFiles 1.4.9. Linked with Appearance SDK 1.03. Recompiled with Interfaces-Libraries 3.2. Recompiled by using the newest compiler. New trial time term. Removed custom CDEFs. Addresses update. All code revisited.
2.3.0 Drag Manager support. Asynchronous playing. Added ability to work using menus. Added "Internet" menu. Added Apple Script support. Movable modal dialogs can switch in background. Added "Internet" menu. Removed windows zooming. Removed confusing custom cursos. Revisited and improved the whole code. Linked with MoreFiles 1.4.6. Fixed a little bug occurring in 68k version. Updated e-mail address. Changed web page address. Minor changes.
2.2.0 PowerPC version. Added tri-dimensional buttons. All modal dialogs are now movable. Improved many code's parts. Improved registration form. Improved registration procedure. Lot of minor changes. The Musician use now temporary memory to manage very large 'snd 'resources. Changed desktop icon.
2.1.0 Completely rewritten the info window routine. Increased the number of informations returned by info window and very improved its look. Added the registration form feature. Optimized and improved any routine. Very improved the job speed. Added the escape key tracking. Added the ability to use menus while The Musician is the foreground application. Removed 'No sound' alert. Changed the work procedure. Added a notification procedure. Minor changes.
2.0.0 Added the ability to work in background. Added drop key. Added the ability to scan disks and folder. Added the command-period tracking.
1.0.0 First version (named FilePlay).
SHAREWARE $10 CASH.
The Musician is distributed as SHAREWARE: if you use The Musician you should pay the author.
You may register by sending US $10 CASH ONLY (or an equivalent sum with your local currency) to the author at the address above. A shareware registration form is available inside The Musician.
Please, please, no checks: to cash them I must pay the bank more than $18!!!!! if you nevertheless want to pay, in any case, by using checks, the requested price increases by $18, to a total of $28 for an individual.
I will trash, without reply, any check without the $18 contribution.
for fees over $50 I suggest you use an international postal money order.
Special licences.
Pricing:
Site licence: US $ 200
Country licence: US $ 500 (a licence to use the software in any your office in one country)
World licence: US $ 1000 (a licence to use the software in any your office around the world)
To register a special licences, please follow this steps:
1) send an international postal money order to the address above,
2) send me a letter or an e-mail containing your personal data (the same data requested in the "normal" registration form).
The unregistered version.
After the trial period of one week, the unregistered version of The Musician is, still, fully operational; however it will always show a reminder and its "about" box when you open it. When you register The Musician the irritating windows don't appear and the "unregistered" notice will be replaced by the registration information.
Notice: soon after registering, you will receive the serial number via e-mail.
The Musician can also be included, without my prior permission, without changes and with this "Read Me", in all CD-ROM or disk shareware collections and in all CD-ROM or Disk magazines (anyway an e-mail or a snail mail would be welcome, as well a copy of the magazine or media would be welcome :-).
The Musician may not be included in a commercial package without my prior permission.
Disclaimer of Warranty.
This software is provided "as is" and without warranty of any kind, implied or expressed. When using it you assume all responsibility for any damages caused, directly or indirectly, by its use. Also registering this software doesn’t give you the right to require extra services (bug fixing, special assistance, the latest version on disk, and so on): you should pay only because you think the program you’re using now is worth the money
