One hour of digitized music for your Vic-20

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Just ran it today on my friendly computer with FE3 and it sounds great, very impressing :D Thank for your great effort Boray

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Thanks! :) I think you will like the next version even better.
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Boray wrote:Here comes a little teaser:
http://youtu.be/eCWt0I7D9QA
Awesome :shock: Looking great and soundig even better!
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After reprogramming my dithering algorithm a great number of times, I've now got it to sound even better than in the video. :D I will include my conversion tool in the package in case someone wants to convert their favorite mp3 list to the vic-20.
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Now the VIC will play everything we want!!! :D
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V2.0 is released!
Here: http://boray.wontek.net/iecplay2/

Also check out the new video version at top of the page. While filming the TV I recorded the audio directly in the PC (with my asio sound card) so this is how good it gets.
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Amazing stuff!
So it's 2k per second? One could fit a 15 second sample in a 32k VIC? That would be awesome for a title screen...
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Thanks! Yes, with ram everywhere you should be able to play 19.25 seconds at this sample rate. That would sound a little better as sjload still influences the sound a bit.
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Added a short mp3 for comparing V1 to V2:
http://boray.wontek.net/iecplay2/v1vsv2.mp3

The first part is from one song in the previous version. The second part is the same song converted and played with V2. I hope you can hear the improvement, or two weeks of work has been for nothing! hahaha...
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Have you ever been to Retrogathering, Boray? (www.retrogathering.se)
I think I'll bring your latest version next weekend to show some people.
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Post by Boray »

No, I haven't. You are more than welcome to show it! :)

There will be a V2.1 soon, I just have to test it first. With it, you can move the joystick up to play fast, down to play slow and press fire to skip to next song or quit playing if you play a single song.
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2.1 released
http://boray.wontek.net/iecplay2/

With the said changes.
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Here is the latest incarnation:

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A new music album, available for the Vic-20:
http://boray.wontek.net/always_the_same_never_the_same/
(4 bit, 4 kHz)

And as high quality music download:
http://boray.bandcamp.com/album/always- ... r-the-same
(24 bit, 44.1 kHz)

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Post by pallas »

I'm listening to it right now, looks amazing! :-)
Just wanted to report that, as with the other release, I had to rename the ML1 and ML5 files to lowercase or basic didn't load them (on vice, ubuntu; file extracted with file roller).
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Thanks! Oh, it works on Windows. So everything should be lo-case then? I will change that, and then try it on a real Vic and then update. Thanks.
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