for those of you who would like to take a peek at the ugly, god-awful source code with the interest of helping me port it (and overcome the limitations of portability), here it is:

http://nobuyuki.gpknow.com/lab/nbBassPlay.rar

You will need BASS.NET to compile. Get it at www.un4seen.com
If you want TTS, you will also either need a Cepstral voice (www.cepstral.com), or enable the ancient code for STSPEECH, or you know, hack out the code calling the cepstral process and use Microsoft Sam instead.

The autoRegen function is enabled by default, it probably doesn't have proper error catching yet, I don't remember. Check the config file. The regenerator depends on NPG files, which is a format I created to scour directories for playable files automatically -- so the mersenne twister can shuffle the entire playlist on regen. If you don't want to make NPG files by hand, get this:

http://nobuyuki.gpknow.com/lab/nbPlaylistGen.zip

This will let you generate the autoRegen playlists, or export M3U's (I added that option, and the ad injector in before nbBassPlay was created, back when I was using foobar2000 to power the station. nbBassPlay injects jingles automatically).

>virtualbox doesn't work right

before giving up on emulation, try some other platforms. 2 people i asked virtualbox about both said that they tried it and whatever they wanted to do crashed. other options: vmware, kqemu, qemu (you already said wine wouldn't work with .net framework)

>porting to linux

the most disappointing part about this will be that you'll end up with a mod engine that's not as good as BASS. the only replayer that i know of that's possibly more accurate than BASS is foo_dumb, which is closed source, and impulse tracker itself, which isn't very useful. libmodplug might come close, but there's still some well-known playback issues with modplug...

>Stereo Mix

using stereo mix is a pretty uncommon way to do it, especially since you're not mixing multiple soundcard inputs (like, doing voiceovers with the microphone). Normally, you would mp3-encode the output of BASS or TTS on the fly and send it to the icecast server. i'm sure cepstral command line has an option to output to a file, and i'm sure there's some way to get the raw audio data out of BASS (either using the ChannelDSP callback or with BASSmix). then you'd get around the stereo mix problem by making your program stream directly to the server without even needing to use the sound card.

or, the easiest option as i see it, you could just throw some spare parts together, put win2k on it, and run your program as-is! :)

>>7094

streaming direct output would require a consistent bitrate, most likely requiring me to re-impliment portions of lame_enc to re-encode it to mp3 since the input formats are varied (mods and such). Speaking of mods, libmodplug is a decent replayer engine -- Most of the mods I play don't use resonance filters, and the ones that do I usually made in MPT myself (so they sound as intended). I'm not sure if it would work though, depends on whether bindings exist, etc etc

Cepstral can output a WAV file, but then I get to use BASSmix to mix the bgm with the TTS output (oh boy) before sending the stream to lame_enc and finally to icecast. This is definitely a lot of unfamiliar territory for me here

>>7094

> the most disappointing part about this will be that you'll end up with a mod engine that's not as good as BASS.

BASS works just fine on linux... or not?

Scrap that, must've been thinking of BASSMOD...

>>7094

>the only replayer that i know of that's possibly more accurate than BASS is foo_dumb, which is closed source

Close, but no cigar.
Source:
http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_dumb_source.zip
And the project it's based on:
http://dumb.sourceforge.net/

>>7109
holy crap i couldn't find the source anywhere, awesome
...but it looks like the actual modifications to DUMB are missing, so that code is only useful for the additional format loading code that could possibly be scraped out of it.

>>7102
oh. i just realized BASSMOD plays formats besides plain old .MOD (durrr), which is all it needs to do (there's other perfectly good libraries for mp3/ogg/whatever playback!)

so, BASSMOD will work fine!

>>7111
Oops.
Forgot to link http://kode54.foobar2000.org/foo_dumb-dumb-lib_source.tar.bz2 too. Although I'm uncertain if the modifications he made to DUMB are included. It's just a wee bit pointless to release the component source if they aren't, though.

>>7111
And as there is mono to run VB.net (or any .net apps, really) in linux, porting should not be too much of a task for someone who knows .net, or not?

>>7113

Mono doesn't support Windows Forms 2.0 (the GUI toolkit I used), nor would it support bass.dll. It might support BASSMOD with a rewrite of the replayer. For the most part it would probably be best to have it ported to a more system-neutral language. (I was thinking that Java would be the one with the most similar datatypes, but coda has a boner for python so if he wants to do it that way, I'll support him -- I'm supposed to be learning py anyway)