Audiosurf Daily Challenge v1.4.4

[Lavos^]

Does it auto-scan the artist name and song name when there's a new song available?

[ViRUS]

Does it auto-scan the artist name and song name when there's a new song available?

Yes, of course, it says Unknown atm because I have no song yet...

[Lavos^]

Yeah that's what I thought, good stuff.

[ViRUS]

Thank you ^^

[Devil_Spawn]

need lots of people to download this.

however, i also recommend you distribute the .ash file for the song.

[ViRUS]

Yeah, we will need a week or two so the program gets 'popular' again, the 1.4.2 version had 200+ downloads (search for 'neoclubber' in Popular songs, it's the 'dreamland' one).

As for the .ash file, yes, I think I will implement this for 1.4.4 so it's more fair for everybody...

[Mincus]

I suggest incorporating some of your player functionality into it as well, so as well as a "launch Audiosurf" there's a "play track".

To just play a track you don't need to register with the window, just send the play info so it should be considerably less complicated to add.

Also I noticed you're using steam://run/12900 to run Audiosurf, I instead grab the Steam.exe location from the registry and run that with the parameters -applaunch 12900 using Process.Start(). Not sure which is better, but grabbing the location of the Steam executable will also allow you to locate Audiosurf and drop the .ash file into the relevant directory as well so will be worth doing from that perspective anyway.
The code is in Audiosurf Prodder or I can paste it here if you want a look (I'll even drop it into VB for you )

[ViRUS]

I suggest incorporating some of your player functionality into it as well, so as well as a "launch Audiosurf" there's a "play track".

I prefer to leave YAAP and ADC seperated, I could add 'Play song when finish downloading' or something like that, but it's the only one I can think of adding... I don't want to end with a mix of both programs, and I think also that ADC it's kinda bloated atm, so maybe on future versions I'll start removing some useless things...

To just play a track you don't need to register with the window, just send the play info so it should be considerably less complicated to add.

Are you sure you don't need to register the window? =S

Also I noticed you're using steam://run/12900 to run Audiosurf, I instead grab the Steam.exe location from the registry and run that with the parameters -applaunch 12900 using Process.Start(). Not sure which is better, but grabbing the location of the Steam executable will also allow you to locate Audiosurf and drop the .ash file into the relevant directory as well so will be worth doing from that perspective anyway.
The code is in Audiosurf Prodder or I can paste it here if you want a look (I'll even drop it into VB for you )

I use steam://... because I think it's some kind of way to be 'sure' that it's not a pirated version of Audiosurf, at least if it IS a pirated version, you lose the Launch button
As for the .ash file, I thought I could add a 'Set where to locate the .ash files', like the download path but with the .ash...

Oh and glad to see you on the scoreboards, Mincus hehe

[Mincus]

Yeah, I started playing then the batteries ran out on my wireless mouse, so I just went for plain Mono on the keyboard since my "spare" mouse is a bluetooth one with bad reaction times.
Will play again later sometime.

I'm positive you don't need to register the window.
Just double-checked with some C code to be sure. You don't, can just send ascommand playsong...

I didn't mean for you to put as much functionality in ADC as in YAAP, just the play button for that days challenge.

I'm not sure how using steam:// is any different to running Steam.exe -applaunch 12900
Either way you need Steam installed, even if it's a dodgy version of Steam it will still provide the steam:// loader I suspect...
Although having never used a pirated version of Steam I might be wrong on that front.

[Lavos^]

Set the path automatically Virus.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Valve\Steam\InstallPath

Then just add \steamapps\common\audiosurf\engine\AudiosurfHC onto the string and b00m. It can also work as an extra legality check too, if the user doesn't have steam, they won't have the registry keys.

[ViRUS]

Ok, so, for next week I'll try to implemet all (or almost all) the things on the 'To do' list.

Also, strange thing is: this program gets many downloads in no-time but we're only 3 people on the scoreboards right now (some people just want the free songs maybe? )...

EDIT:

Oh, and I've been thinking on deleting the changing language ability, as I never used it really, and it's kinda bothering me to update the strings.txt and the spanish/english/nederlands translations every time I add a new function. What do you think?

[Uupis]

Go ahead and remove it.

[Devil_Spawn]

i think that you should enforce ash downloading where you can, not just a button. dont allow the setting of the folder either, if its legit, the flder is easy to find.

[Uupis]

I believe he allows setting of the folder where to download the song. I am not sure though.

[Laserrobotics]

i think that you should enforce ash downloading where you can, not just a button. dont allow the setting of the folder either, if its legit, the flder is easy to find.

well, I moved everything associated with Steam over to my F drive, as my C drive just doesn't have enough room, and it's easier than moving lots of other things.  Not allowing to input a location would mean I couldn't use it, although you might be able to just ask for which drive it's on.

EDIT: 2008th post!  Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!