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Flashy Music Gallery v0.46 by =flashygoodness:iconflashygoodness:

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Artist's Comments

-> Listen to work-in-progress songs here <-


All music, artwork, code, and other material excluding guest artwork is © =flashygoodness unless noted otherwise.

Production Notes: I use FL Studio 8 and PxTone to compose | Most synth instruments are custom-designed by me using 3xOSC and Magical 8bit Plug | I use various soundfonts | I usually use only the mouse to compose | I brainstorm for melodies by improvising on piano

Guest Artists (visuals):
All artwork is used with permission.
:iconkenj::icontuyoki::iconchicinlicin::iconkaiseto::iconkimmotman::icongodsavant::iconseaoffog:



:bulletblack: DEVELOPMENT LOG

Upcoming improvements:
-featured songs
-category selection

Potential improvements:
-favorites (custom playlists)

11/10/09: Gallery is fixed.
11/7/09: Temporary workaround implemented for main music gallery. Better fix to be implemented when I have time.
11/5/09: Gallery is offline due to Dropbox url change.

10/30/09 v0.46: Song looping improved; partially removes periods of silence between loops. "Starred songs" feature added; highlights my favorite works.

8/29/09: Rainghost seekbar. Song loading timeout implemented.

7/27/09 v0.45: Volume control implemented.

7/11/09: Minor visual update.

7/9/09: Fixed the gallery by switching hosting to a backup server.

7/8/09: Dropbox hosting went offline due to having too many listeners at once. Whoops!

7/8/09: Improved PNG scaling and panning routines; added a delay after hovering the mouse over the screen for the PNG to start moving. Reduced the size of the play button and brought back the stop button.

7/4/09 v0.44: Implemented PNG loading, scaling, and panning.

7/3/09 v0.43: Added shuffle playback!

6/30/09 v0.42: Made separate boxes for embedded comments and additional notes, and added a "critique requested" indicator.

6/15/09: Various minor graphical improvements.

5/31/09: Removed the stop button because it really isn't any more useful than than the pause button (right?) and was taking up space.

5/18/09 v0.41: Scrollbar programmed and implemented. It was more complicated than one would have thought.

5/15/09 v0.4: DeviantART-integration style implemented, misc. UI graphical changes made. Spent all night up till morning on this.

5/2/09: Menu opening behavior changed, scrolling method changed, autoplay "disabled" by means of an additional screen before music begins.

4/28/09: The main engine has been made entirely separate from its loader. That means multiple users can use this engine now! Also, the loading speed/performance issues from before have been fixed, after a lot of loathsome debugging.

4/27/09 v0.3: External SWF loading implemented. There are unresolved speed/connection/performance issues on my end, though. If anyone encounters any such issues or any bugs, please let me know!

4/6/09: Smooth scrolling added.

4/5/09: XML loading achieved! Retrieves songlist from an external XML file now. But the songlist is huge and I'll have to add a scrollbar or something later.

3/29/09: Duration detection achieved, seekbar fixed! After some experimentation and a bit of guesswork, I've figured out a way to accurately calculate the duration of the music without having it fully loaded! I've also fixed the seekbar's jumpiness because of that, and it now also shows a visual representation of the percentage of the song that is loaded! I think this is basically ready to go out of beta now, sans the fact that I must give the GUI an entire facelift as well as add features like volume control and dynamic image/swf loading.

3/28/09: First release. Currently testing out some dynamic loading of music data from Dropbox. Those with slower connections will have faster access to the music now. There are a few nasty bugs that seem to only happen for me and those with slower connections, but I'll try to have those fixed soon.

...This project was started on May 19, 2008, 6:17 PM, although actual functionality was not implemented until summer of 2008. And now, it's over one year old! And here's a gift for those who bothered to read this far: [link] Thanks!

Comments


:iconwondercheese:
~Wondercheese Mar 28, 2009, 3:59:13 AM
aaaa! But it's gorgeous! And I didn't notice any flaws/bugs. :D

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I WARNED YOU ABOUT STAIRS BRO !!!
I TOLD YOU DOG!
I TOLD YOU MAN
I TOLD YOU ABOUT STAIRS
:iconflashygoodness:
=flashygoodness Mar 28, 2009, 4:18:12 AM
Thanks! And you... didn't? The songs all streamed smoothly for you? No initial stutter or lag? For some reason, I keep getting problems when every song starts playing.

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:music: Listen: Flashy Music Gallery
:music: Play: Tower of Heaven
I am an indie game musician.
Pleased to make your acquaintance.
:iconwondercheese:
~Wondercheese Mar 28, 2009, 4:22:51 AM
N-no... everything flowed very smoothly.
The switch between songs had no problems.

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I WARNED YOU ABOUT STAIRS BRO !!!
I TOLD YOU DOG!
I TOLD YOU MAN
I TOLD YOU ABOUT STAIRS
:iconflashygoodness:
=flashygoodness Mar 28, 2009, 4:25:24 AM
hmm! could just be my slow connection then. Everything flows smoothly for you, ya say? I bet I know the issue then.... I'm using 192kbps for these files, so anyone with a slower connection than that may experience trouble when streaming these songs. Grr.

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:music: Listen: Flashy Music Gallery
:music: Play: Tower of Heaven
I am an indie game musician.
Pleased to make your acquaintance.
:iconnavette:
=Navette Mar 28, 2009, 6:28:09 AM
Amazing, Flashy! You've done it again!

And as Wondercheese said, I see no flaws, aside from the occasional jumpiness of Hanabi. c:

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<3s =InkyDemu~
:iconkimicatdemon:
=kimicatdemon Mar 28, 2009, 7:56:36 AM
I love thiiissss. :c

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...But make it much more awesome. :meow:
:iconazhure14:
~azhure14 Mar 28, 2009, 7:59:05 AM
Works fine for me too. Ange pon is adorable.
I hope you enjoyed your spring break!
:iconrokkan-illidian:
~Rokkan-Illidian Mar 28, 2009, 9:36:20 AM
haha neat idea!

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this user was probably banned for this post
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~omgwtfbbqplz Mar 28, 2009, 11:36:53 AM
If you were to put this in a video game, it'll be awarded with "Best music".

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"Opinions are like a**holes. Everybody got one and no one cares." - My 10th grade English teacher's Stepfather
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I have onion plz accounts!
DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT THE CREATOR OF ONION HEAD
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