Yahoo! Music Engine?
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Yahoo! Music Engine?
Any plans for support for the Yahoo! Music Engine? I seem to be listening to this more than anything else recently. Currently, you are stuck with just one visualization, and it's a far cry from G-Force! Thanks.
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Re: Yahoo! Music Engine?
Support for the Yahoo Music Engine is in the works but in the interim you can use the standalone version of G-Force to visualize whatever you play through the Yahoo Music Engine (the standalone will visualize any audio on your computer).MikeM132 wrote:Any plans for support for the Yahoo! Music Engine? I seem to be listening to this more than anything else recently. Currently, you are stuck with just one visualization, and it's a far cry from G-Force! Thanks.
If you have the standalone installed, you can launch it on a PC by selecting Start | All Programs | G-Force (standalone)... on a Mac, you can use Finder to locate your G-Force folder and then run the standalone application from within that folder (note, you can press "Shift A" to select the various audio input sources available to the standalone, including three sound generator modes that don't require audio input).
I wanted to bump this one as Musicmatch is now migrating all user subscriptions over to the Yahoo player and services.
While the Yahoo player lacks some minor MMJB features (notably the ability to burn mp3Pro files and--stupidly and annoyingly--the ability to accept TLAN frames in ID3V2 tags) it does some other things better.
One huge improvement is the responsiveness of the database. I no longer have time to go get a cup of coffee while I am waiting for the "edit tag" dialog to come up. While you cannot create your own indexes in YMJB the ones they supply are well-presented.
MMJB did not interface with G-Force very well, but this was totally the fault of MMJB, which would override every little massage I tried to apply to the G-Force config file to make it work properly on my second screen. I wound up running the generic version of G-Force anyway.
Finally, MMJB's multi-process model was poorly executed and crashed on me regularly, usually leaving one or more of its five processes hanging until you could kill each of them manually (or reboot).
As I said before, MMJB will encode mp3Pro files, but for some reason its creators would not let you play much of anything. FLAC and OGG, for example, were off limits. YMJB uses a more standard, open design which will play anything you have a codec for.
My biggest gripe with MMJB though will always be its extreme slowness if you wanted to modify something in the database. YMJB does not seem to suffer from this. While YMJB has some problems choking--that's right, choking, as in "OMG ignore the entire tag because I don't recognize this one frame!" on some extended ID3 tags (TLAN--"language" is fairly ubiquitous but YMJB will choke on it) eventually some idiot at Yahoo will figure out that they need to add these tags to the parser. It's a simple fix.
So yes, please add YMJB support to G-Force. It should be pretty easy to grab the song name, etc. I have other apps that do it.
While the Yahoo player lacks some minor MMJB features (notably the ability to burn mp3Pro files and--stupidly and annoyingly--the ability to accept TLAN frames in ID3V2 tags) it does some other things better.
One huge improvement is the responsiveness of the database. I no longer have time to go get a cup of coffee while I am waiting for the "edit tag" dialog to come up. While you cannot create your own indexes in YMJB the ones they supply are well-presented.
MMJB did not interface with G-Force very well, but this was totally the fault of MMJB, which would override every little massage I tried to apply to the G-Force config file to make it work properly on my second screen. I wound up running the generic version of G-Force anyway.
Finally, MMJB's multi-process model was poorly executed and crashed on me regularly, usually leaving one or more of its five processes hanging until you could kill each of them manually (or reboot).
As I said before, MMJB will encode mp3Pro files, but for some reason its creators would not let you play much of anything. FLAC and OGG, for example, were off limits. YMJB uses a more standard, open design which will play anything you have a codec for.
My biggest gripe with MMJB though will always be its extreme slowness if you wanted to modify something in the database. YMJB does not seem to suffer from this. While YMJB has some problems choking--that's right, choking, as in "OMG ignore the entire tag because I don't recognize this one frame!" on some extended ID3 tags (TLAN--"language" is fairly ubiquitous but YMJB will choke on it) eventually some idiot at Yahoo will figure out that they need to add these tags to the parser. It's a simple fix.
So yes, please add YMJB support to G-Force. It should be pretty easy to grab the song name, etc. I have other apps that do it.