DC Multimedia

Name DC Playa

Author Benjamin Gerard & Vincent Penne http://sashipa.ben.free.fr/dcplaya/

Description

dcplaya is a free music player for the Dreamcast .

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Information

What is dcplaya ?dcplaya is a free music player for the Dreamcast .

dcplaya can play various music file format. Most popular of format such as mp3, ogg-vorbis, soundtracker, sid music, sc68 music and cd audio track are supported.

See features for more details.

Copyingdcplaya is a free software. It implies it is free of charge and it could be freely copied. Users could freely register to dcplaya. This is not required but help us to know the popularity of your program. See register for more details on the registration.

DistributingAs dcplaya team would like to know the popularity of its program, it should not be massively distributed by a third party.
If you want to link dcplaya in your website, please do not link directly the distribution file. Link the dcplaya home page instead.

The distribution package could be change in the limit of the personnal use, as soon as the author rights are respected.

dcplaya must not be sell even without any benecice.

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Warrantydcplaya comes without any warranty.

dcplaya is not an official product. It has been made with free software, without official documentation. dcplaya developpers have given the best to make a safe product. They use it dailly with no problem, but could not warranty you anything.

dcplaya is not a commercial product. It is freely distribued. dcplaya team have passed a long tine to give you this product and do not want to be implie with any purchasse. If you have a doubt about the fiability of dcplaya, do not use it!

More Info

What are the supported file systems ?

dcplaya support iso9660 level 2 filesystem. The limitation of this filesystem is 31 characteres by name with a maximum of eight directory levels. dcplaya does not support Joliet (Micro$oft) extension but it does support Rock Ridge extension.

How can I make long filename CD ?

It depends on your burning software. You have to create a iso9660 level 2 CD. Joliet extension should not need to be desactivate ( I have to check this ! ).

You can find a front-end for cdrecord for Windows platforms at http://demosten.com/cdrfe that allows to burn CD with Rock Ridge extensions.

Where should I put my music files ?

You don't need to put the music files in the same disk than dcplaya. As soon as dcplaya has been loaded you can change the CD at any time. The song-browser application auto-detects disk change and loads the new disk content. If a music is playing in streaming mode (mp3, ogg ...) the playback will stop but no critical error should occur.

PlaylistWhat playlist format are supported ?

dcplaya has a native support for m3u and pls playlist format.

What about other playlist format ?

It is really easy to add a playlist loader to dcplaya with the lua API. Anyway do you know other playlist file format ?

Variable Bit Rate supportDoes dcplaya support MP3 variable bitrate (VBR and ABR) ?

No.
Current dcplaya input plugin for playing mp3 is an old xing engine (a modified version of the one from KOS 1.15) that does not have support for VBR.

When does dcplaya have support for variable bitrate ?

Who knowns ? May be the VBR support could easily be added to the current xing engine. Or may be it will be easier to compile another mp3 decoder and to make a new plugin. You'll have to wait I find some time for this, or wait for a third party developer to do it as soon the plugin API and/or the source distribution are available.