Some issues (on Windows 98):

• The main buttons show strange letters: 9 ; : and 7 < 8 (using default font / MS Sans Serif s8):
• When e.g. pressing F3, nothing happens;
• The systray icons shows only a "white H on green background". I know Windows 98 (by default !) only displays 16 color default palette icons properly, but this icon does not remind in any case on "Trout", the Trout icon or a media player at all.
• Starting playback with doubleclick on a playlist item sometimes does not work (So I can reproduce this with a specific file only)
• Canceling color chooser for background color changes the background color in the setup dialog, and this background color is applied for the seek bar
• Font size is not 'selected' properly in the font chooser, maybe you forgot to set the iPointSize member or have an calculation error

-Controller (January 15, 2009, 11:07 AM)

Windows 95/98 isn't supported by Trout.  Apologies.

• why do you need mixer API (shouldn't bass do all volume stuff?)
• is there any joystick support (joyGetPosEx)
• You should at least add unicode support for file system access
• resources.dll is not compressed (upx)
• Why don't you include no_cover, skwire.ico and streaming_cover in the resources.dll?
• No need to provide Thumbs.db in the zip file
• You could make playlist m3u compatible

-Controller (January 15, 2009, 11:07 AM)

I'll hit each of these points in the event that you can use Trout on 2k/XP/Vista.

1) Trout doesn't use the system mixer for volume control.  All volumes are handled within Trout/BASS.
2) No joystick support at the moment but that would be trivial to add.
3) AHK doesn't have native unicode support.  I've added unicode handling where I can in Trout using all manner of tricks.  Believe me, if I could figure out a way to handle unicode paths, I would add it in a heartbeat.
4) I suppose I could compress the resources.dll but it's only 105k to begin with.
5) I didn't include the no_cover.jpg/streaming_cover.jpg in the dll so it would easier for users to replace them with their own images if they didn't like the ones I included.
6) Thumbs.db.  Doh!  Thanks...deleted from the zip.
7) Trout can read both types of m3u playlists (simple and EXTInfo types).  If you meant writing to m3u format then, yes, I still need to add that functionality.

Thanks for your feedback and apologies, again, about the Windows 98 limitation.  I added some clarifying text to my initial post in this thread.

I have had a play with the slider control and I get no response from using the mousewheel.(Not that I would ever use it)

-nogojoe (January 14, 2009, 01:31 AM)

If you set a wheelmouse hotkey for the seek actions, it will work (but not as well as one would hope).

The slider control works OK with me as long as you hold the mouse pointer right on it, slides back and forth giving the track time, no jumping back and forth as such as  apfel described.

-nogojoe (January 14, 2009, 01:31 AM)

Right, this is the way it was intended.

The only time that happened was when I clicked the seekbar on either side of the control slider then it jumps about 54 seconds forward and back can't really see any need to be doing that though.

-nogojoe (January 14, 2009, 01:31 AM)

Yep, this is the limitation I mentioned before.  I don't think the standard Windows slider control was meant to be used as a seekbar.  =]

However it takes 3 clicks on the seekbar forward of the slider control to go from the start to the finish of a song there could be some use in doing that if you want a quick preview of a song.

-nogojoe (January 14, 2009, 01:31 AM)

This is the reason I added the seek buttons.  You can click and hold either of those to get a sort of CD player fast-forward/rewind effect.

I really hope the basic tag editing capabilities I added in this build will be enough for most folks.  I honestly have no desire to extend Trout in this area when there are SOOO many much more capable tag editors out there.  Please, please, please try this out on copies of your files and report to me any bugs.  I've tested it out here but I will continue to use mp3Tag for all my tag editing needs.


v1.0.1 build 80
    + Added "Rescan tags of selected files" to the edit menu.
    + Added BASIC tag editing capabilities to Trout.  There are some caveats.
      You can only edit one file at a time and, by default, the following
      tag types will be written to the following file types:
       
      mp3   ID3v2 tags
      aac   ID3v2 tags
      wma   WMA fields
      ape   APEv2 tags
      flac  Vorbis comments
      ogg   Vorbis comments
      mp4   Not implemented yet
      wav   None
       
      You can TRY to force ID3v1, ID3v2, and/or APEv2 tags by checking the
      appropriate boxes.  This does not work for all file types.
    + Added another section to the statusbar that shows the total number of
      tracks in the playlist as well as whatever row is focused e.g. 2/12.