Hello Ladies and Gentlemen!
Since the 'closing down' of the IRC Challenge bot, I felt the owner should continue with free and legal music. Unfortunately, he's unable to continue, but that's why I have created a new daily challenge program.
Every time you start it, the program looks up the online database I host myself and gives you the option to download the current song. After downloading you will be given the opportunity to press a single button that will start Audiosurf, and load up the current song.
I've been doing this in Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition in my spare time, and the source will be included every new version plus a strings.txt file with the strings you'll need to translate if you want me to add a new translation.
Feel free to comment/post ideas, I'll post any progress here.
Side notes:The music I will use will be 100% LEGAL, no copyright shit and all...
The news and song will be updated everyday at 00:00 (GMT-03:00)
except weekends as I'm not in my home and don't have my PC to add new ones.
Changelog:1.0
First release
1.1
· Changed starting directory folder
· You now can't download when a song hasn't been found
· Remade the download system, now with progress bar!
· Now remembers the last path
1.2
· Fixed error on downloading containing a path error, that they were 'OutOfBounds'
· The Download! button is now disabled on downloading and re-enabled when finished or no host has been found.
· Added a check if the host server is online, preventing the program from crashing
1.2.1
· Fixed another crash on download
1.3
· News display section expanded
· "Change font" button added
· Made multilanguage
· Fixed problem of the program not detecting new songs
1.3.1
· News display section modified to look better
· Fixed some typos on the english translation
· Changed the Title, Length, Artist & Size information place
· Renamed the program from AudioChallenge to Audiosurf Daily Challenge
1.3.2
· News changed to look better
· Changed the position of the progress bar
· Changed the "Change font" button to be smaller
· Changed the size of the language selection list
1.3.3
· Fixed "Download complete!" message that appeared lots of times when the program finished downloading a song. Sorry about that.
· Now, when the program is downloading a song, the "Download!", "Change folder" buttons and the "Path:" box will be deactivated
· Now, when the program is downloading a song, the text of the "Download!" button will be "Downloading..."
1.3.4
· Added an "Apply" button so you don't have to restart the application everytime you want to change the language
· Resized the "Launch Audiosurf" button as it was a very bit smaller than the other ones
· Now you can select the song's artist and title so you can copy them to the clipboard in case you need them
1.3.5
· Changed news to have more control over them and to be able to write more
· Made the news section bigger
· It will no longer depend on your PC's date
1.4.0
· Added a percentage at the right of the download bar to know the download progress more exactly
· Added a download complete notification with a checkmark to disable it
· Changed the "Font" button to "Settings" as it now can do 2 changes to the program
· Changed the AudioChallenge title on windows like "File already exists!"
· Changed the nederlands translation name from "Deutsch" to "Nederlands"
· Included a .manifest file so the program looks better on Windows XP
· Made several changes and optimizations to the code
· Made several changes to the program's information on the code itself (parts where it still said "AudioChallenge" instead of "Audiosurf Daily Challenge")
· Updated the strings file to include the new strings
1.4.1
· Added an icon
· Changed the "Settings" text with a nut
· Fixed a bug where the "News" title didn't change if you use the "Apply" button
· Made the download bar larger
· Added an scroll bar to the navigator
1.4.2
· Added a notification area icon, you can control the whole program there too
· Added an option to use an alternative server to download the song/read the news, if the download fails the first time, check it and retry.
· Now you can change the language while downloading a song
· Added a button to minimize the program to the notification area and control it over there
· Changed the language name from "Espanol" to "Español"
1.4.3
· Updated URLs to work with new servers
· Added an update notification
· Added a line to let you know if there are any special modes used
1.4.4
· Added a button to download the .ash file
· Added "mins." at the end of the Length string
To do:· Add a button to play the downloaded song
Known bugs:· In Windows Vista, if you want to save the songs in this path: "C:\", you must first run the program as an Administrator (Right click on the program's executable, "Run as an Administrator")
Preview:
Audiosurf