Pico MP3 Player
What’s it?
An MP3 Player, obviously, but very small, both in executable size as on
screen.
It does not depend on any special external libraries and uses very
little system resources.
How to install?
Just put it somewhere, it will work from any place without anything
further.
Put this help file in the same directory, though, if you want to use it.
Optionally right click on the file and create a shortcut.
If you want the file on the start menu, simply drag that shortcut to it.
How does it work?
Well, the buttons should be familiar: Pause, Play/Stop, Previous, Next, Repeat, List, Help and Quit.
You can see the current file list by pressing the list button:
Clicking on a song automatically starts playing it.
In addition, the file dialog that opens when you press the Play button
allows you to select one or more mp3’s to be played consecutively.
Select is by pressing either alt + left mouse button for a consecutive
selection or by pressing ctrl + left mouse button for selecting multiple
individual files.
You can also drag and drop one or more mp3’s from Explorer or the even
better the Windows Search Dialog, so you are not limited to files in one
directory.
Again, select is by pressing either alt + left mouse button for a
consecutive selection or by pressing ctrl + left mouse button for selecting
multiple individual files.
The last two features go a long way in compensating for the fact that
Picomp3 does not have a database or search features of its own.
Not much else really, it just plays MP3’s J
Who wrote it and why?
Pico mp3 is written by Thaddy de
Koning and is released as freeware.
Why? Well, simply because I do not like the mediaplayer
eating all my resources and cpu time:
It is a also demonstration of the fact that MP3
players need not be several megabytes huge.
It is written in assembler and
Part of it is based on original MP3 code in
Homepage: http://delphimpeg.sourceforge.net/
My adapted – smaller code, better thread handling - version is available
on request, see below.
Whot, no Skins?
No, one of the reasons it’s so small: is the lack of an over-elaborate
user interface.
The source code (apart from some assembler optimizations, but in working
order) is available for free, so you can always add Skin support yourself.
What does it cost?
Niente, Nada, Nothing
Freeware.
But if you really, really like it and use it, send me a 5 euro banknote
and I’ll have a beer, maybe two:
Just in case, my address:
Willem van
Hillegaersbergstraat 143B
3051 RH Rotterdam
The
System requirements
Minimum Pentium 100, Win95 and 16MB memory should do.
Known issues:
Due to the way the player thread is currently implemented there is a
slight delay when you pause an mp3.
I am not sure I want to solve this, since this way provides better
playback response and timing.
Please report any bugs or suggestions to me: mailto:thaddy@thaddy.com
Have fun,
Thaddy
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