Xanvier's NFS Music Player (MW 1.3)

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This is a custom music player replacement and a BASS library interface for NFS.

FEATURES:

• Custom playlist generation - put any number of songs you like!
  
• Basic support for M3U playlists!
  
• Interactive music playback - you're not missing out on these! You can even modify them to your liking! (requires a bit of skill)
  
• Online streaming - listen to online radio in the game!
  
• Automatic metadata reading
  
• SHOUTcast metadata support - a track changed on the radio? No problem, the Chyron will pop up when it happens!
  
• Music looping
  
• Per track settings - need to change the song's shown title or change the loop point? You can set that in a separate settings file!
  
• A LOT of formats supported:
  
  • BASS' natively supported streaming formats: MP3/MP2/MP1/OGG/WAV/AIFF
    
  • BASS' natively supported tracker formats (same as XMPlay): mo3/xm/mod/s3m/it/mtm/umx
    
  • BASSFLAC
    
  • BASSMIDI (only a single soundfont at a time for now :/)
    
  • Basic VGMStream (except Vorbis/OGG, AT3, MPEG, G7221, G719, MP4, AAC) - still a crapload of formats!
    
  
  

More info in the README!

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Install Visual Studio 2015 x86 Redist (from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53587 ) (SKIP IF ALREADY INSTALLED)
2. Extract this package to your game's root directory
3. Start the game and follow the instructions
4. Do either of following things:
4.1 Make an M3U playlist with your favorite music player and save to scripts\XNFSMusicPlayer\Playlist.m3u
OR
4.2 Open scripts\XNFSMusicPlayer.ini and set PlaylistFile to the path of your M3U file!
NOTE: M3U must be NON-UNICODE!

UPDATING:
As of now there is no clear way of updating yet. Most of the times I only update the .asi files themselves, however on rare occasions sometimes I may add/change things in the .ini .

Most of the time you can simply extract the .asi files and you'll be fine, however if any issues arise please do start from scratch and overwrite any settings files!

CHANGELOG:
1.8 WIP:
-- split codebase to support multiple games (not much new code or features yet)
- working on Carbon version
- simply uploading latest version due to server migration issues ATM
- preparing for GitHub code release

1.7
-- removed fixed memory areas for tracks, added dynamic memory allocation
- calloc's structures by the number of tracks
- the only limits for tracks now should be amount of available memory and my code's optimization
-- decreased the delay between tracks a bit

1.6
-- attempt to force disable channel slide if a looped song was playing
- interactive music could sometimes fade out between parts

1.5:
-- FIXED THE 120 TRACK LIMIT!
- Player1's UserProfile database was being overwritten by track stuff so I disabled that
- I'm not sure if this will introduce new bugs but it seems good so far
- Only tested with 1331 tracks so far, there were no crashes
- In theory, the limit should now be 65535 tracks before I implement dynamic allocation

1.4:
-- prevented the OS from stopping the DLL to start
- by returning TRUE even if an error occurs
- special thanks to LW_X_M_Officer_01b for testing
-- fixed build number
-- added rudimentary logging to file
- set LogFileEnabled to 1 in the ini to use
-- removed comment from the default SF2 file path
- strings don't have inline comment supported
-- hacked the hack previously made for infinite playback
- disabled it for interactive mode
- it previously caused game to randomly stop playing interactive music if it's ASF and kept queueing them
-- fixed some stupid issues with ID3v2 again

1.3:
-- added M3U drive detection for Winamp style paths
-- added more bootflows for the installer
-- hack to prevent infinite playback of some files with VGMStream (except looped)
-- fixed duplicate path creation

1.2:
-- fixed Vorbis comment reading
-- added M3U support
-- changed up some paths again for default files

1.1:
-- fixed crashing issues with ID3v2 tag reading
-- changed default paths to suck less
-- added warning to user for a lot of tracks
- found out game has bugs with more than 120 or so tracks
-- added temporary Unicode to ASCII conversion before going to full Unicode (ID3v2 fixed)

BUG REPORTING:
For now, please report all bugs to the comments section of this page
Or contact me on Discord: Xanvier#6673

Do this (EXCEPT ON XP):
- Open scripts\XNFSMusicPlayer.ini
- Set VerbosityLevel to 3 and LogFileEnabled to 1
- Play the game to where the errors happen if you can, if otherwise, tell me where it happens (before game showed up, after game showed up, during menu/gameplay, etc.)
- Exit the game
- Set those VerbosityLevel and LogFileEnabled to the values before
- Send me the XNFSMusicPlayer.log found in scripts\XNFSMusicPlayer (only if it's not empty)

Once I release the sources, GitHub will be used for proper bug reporting.

SOURCES:
XNFSMusicPlayer: (coming soon)
XNFSMusicPlayerInstaller: https://github.com/xan1242/xnfsmusicplayerinstaller

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Comments

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JJBRWBYLadybug27 (May 12, 2020 @ 11:08)

Xanvier, I have a question.

How many songs does it hold?

kozak10891 (April 18, 2020 @ 04:13)

Hey @Xanvier , i just have a question. does this mod work with any NFS games ( like Prostreet ) or just NFS Most Wanted?

DanteEdward (April 13, 2020 @ 07:39)

This mod works great, but only as long as I load a playlist with 19 tracks or less. If I attempt to load a playlist with 20 tracks or more the game crashes on startup without making a crash log, and the terminal output reports that the Main Pool doesn't have enough available memory.

Keufflon (March 21, 2020 @ 13:33)

Thank you dude, a cool program, I added music to myself and my music plays, but I don’t have that kind of music, I am very pleased with this program, thanks again for the fact that you posted it a very cool program good, good, good :) :) :)

Temnelc (March 08, 2020 @ 15:36)

hey @Xanvier ,I added the playlist onto the files, But when opening the game, the music won't play, despite the EAtrax displaying the music names over and over.
I could use some help...