Browser based YM jukebox

[LynXX]

Hi all,

I've been working on a web-browser based YM jukebox and I finally have a first version available. You can find it here:

https://nguillaumin.github.io/ym-jukebox/

It's pretty basic for now and lacking important features (search for example), but it's a start. At least now you can easily listen to YM tunes on your computer or mobile device!

I realize the YM format is kind of obsolete and has been superseded by SNDH, but there's still a huge library of tunes out there, and it was easier to port it to Javascript than a SNDH player, so I went for it.

I put everything on GitHub if you want to contribute, either on the app itself or helping organizing the YM library: https://github.com/nguillaumin/ym-jukebox

To help with library organization I also wrote a little tool to edit YM metadata and various other things: https://github.com/nguillaumin/ymtool It's still in its infancy and only supports the YM5 file format for now. It also doesn't unpack LHA-packed YM files because I couldnt' find a LHA depacker that worked in Go (the language the tool is written in) and I also couldn't find information about the LHA file format to write one myself (if anyone has any technical information about the LHA/LZH format, I'd be interested!).

Feedback is welcome, on this forum or via GitHub issues. I hope you enjoy it!

Thanks!

Nico

[dma]

Hey there,

I think some people did this before, but nice to see another go at it!

Other browser based YM players :
- https://github.com/photonstorm/Flod/tree/master/Flym (AS)
- https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser-p ... r/YM/YM.js (CODEF based it seems)
Also some did a SNDH player :
- https://github.com/bobuss/sndh-player
- https://github.com/photonstorm/sc68-2.2.1
(those two are emscripten based, so not "true" JS code one may say )

[Cyprian]

great links
thanks both of you


there is something wrong with that player: https://tornil.me/sndh-player/#musics/T ... Intro.sndh

[mlynn1974]

Nice Player LynXX.

It's a good way to quickly go through lots of YMs which is very useful on a mobile phone. It's fine on Chrome and Firefox but it doesn't seem to work on IE11. It simply displays Loading...

JS error is:
abort(No WebAssembly support found. Build with -s WASM=0 to target JavaScript instead.) at Error: 0 at O
libym.js line 1586

[LynXX]

Thanks!

I knew about the Emscripten port of sc68 actually, but I didn't know about the other links, I'll check them out. Mine is also an Emscripten port of the Leonard YM library.

For IE11 I'm not surprised, it's just too old, it would be too much effort to support it. Event Microsoft doesn't want you to use it But I will try to at least handle the error more gracefully.

Nico

[AdamK]

You could use my recordings at http://sndhrecord.atari.org/ (all recorded from real STE)

[LaurentS]

Hi Adam,

I've searched a site like yours for ages without success.
That's exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks a lot.
Couldn't you let me know before ?

Thanks also to DMA and Lynxx for the online players.

Regards
Thadoss

[ST Graveyard]

Awesome work Nico. This is do much fun to use on my phone. Thanks for this!

[LaurentS]

I really enjoy the tool. That's so nice.
Would it be possible to add a random play option, so that I could listen to music for hours without having to click to the next one ?

Regards
Thadoss

[LynXX]

Great idea! I'll look into it, shouldn't be too hard...

[npomarede]

Hi

Nice interface for music ; but while listening to some of them, I noticed that the speed is not correct, it plays too fast, as if played at 60 Hz instead of 50 Hz.
For example, listen to "Beatnick" by Mad Max : it really plays too fast and the digidrums are really wrong.
"Wings Of Death 0 - loading" is also too fast, but "WingsLoading" (which should be the same) plays insanely too fast

Maybe it's a bug in your player or maybe it depends on the browser, I'm using linux + firefox, but it should be possible to get a correct 1/50 sec between each YM frames (most of he songs should be played at 50 Hz, songs that were composed to be played at 60 Hz are rare)

Nicolas

[LynXX]

I added a button in the playlist screen to enqueue 100 random songs (can be clicked multiple times). The random selection is pretty naive and may yield duplicates for now.

And yeah there's something wrong with the playback. I don't think it's faster, but the pitch is different and there's something wrong with the digidrums indeed. Thanks for providing that example. At a glance I couldn't find the reason but I'll investigate...

[X3peri_MENTaL]

Just found this and I'm currently burning through a random 100 playlist.

Don't know if the reported problem with playback is still there or not... but irrespective it's totally awesome.

[Sturm]

I added a button in the playlist screen to enqueue 100 random songs (can be clicked multiple times). The random selection is pretty naive and may yield duplicates for now.

And yeah there's something wrong with the playback. I don't think it's faster, but the pitch is different and there's something wrong with the digidrums indeed. Thanks for providing that example. At a glance I couldn't find the reason but I'll investigate...

Nice ! As npomarede mentioned, i noticed some tunes are not played correctly, "Skateball" for example.

But thanks a lot, it's a really great browser !

[LynXX]

Coming back to this 4 years later I finally figured out the speed issue. The code was assuming a playback rate of 44100 Hz but most computers these days seem to use 48000 Hz... I have published a new version with a fix: https://nguillaumin.github.io/ym-jukebox/ (you may need to clear your browser cache).

I think there's still some issue with the pitch, it seems sharper than when I play the songs with other tools, and this one I can't figure out. Maybe I need another 4 years!

[Shazz]

Nice (icons are broken but now it works !)

[SToS]

Icons broke for me too, Firefox 130.0.1 (Linux 64-bit)

I think there's still some issue with the pitch, it seems sharper than when I play the songs with other tools, and this one I can't figure out. Maybe I need another 4 years!

I'm no audiophile, but definitely doesn't quite sound right at 48Khz in my opinion.

I do hope you can sort it all out, it would be a great asset to have this site for us Atarians.

I appreciate all your effort in getting this working LynXX.

[LynXX]

Thanks, icons are fixed now, but there's still some issue on mobile with the player controls at the bottom being partially hidden. I will have a look in the coming days...

[LynXX]

Layout issue should be fixed now as well.

[LynXX]

Pitch issue is now fixed as well! It was an underlying issue with the StSound library that got fixed in a more recent version.

So I guess finally declare this project completed

[CiH]

Correct full sid-sound on Middle Earth tune by Jess.

Good!

[unseenmenace]

Great job! If I wanted to make use of this on my website, is there an easy way to make it loop tunes?

[JeanMars]

That's so cool
Only 2 things missing IMHO:
- Volume control
- Random song play

Cheers,
Jean

[LynXX]

Thanks!

For volume control, I prefer to rely on the device controls. This is more intended for mobile usage where the volume can be easily adjusted with the hardware button.

For random play, it already somewhat exists: Go to the playlist, and click "Enqueue 100 random songs" at the top.

[JeanMars]

Thanks for your reply!