sid playback

[JetroPag]

Hi, I just noticed today (yeah, i know it has been there for a while) that rockbox plays sids.

I've got just a few questions

1. is it going to be possible in the future to skip between subtunes? Some of my sid files have a lot of them..
2. It would be nice to be able to select which emulation frequency to use. (PAL, or NTSC)
3. also, as there's the "old" chip (mos-6581), and the "new" (mos-8580), it would be cool to select which to use. My old c-64 had the old one, so i'd like to use that.

Sorry for being such a n00b asking these, since i'm almost sure they're going to be added later.. But I just wanted to be sure. hehe

anyway, thanks a lot for the sid support. It's awesome!

[Llorean]

1) Hold right, as if fast forwarding, and in SIDs I believe it skips subtracks.
2) and 3) I can't answer. I do know the SID codec isn't being worked on at the moment, but that it's popular among a certain group of developers. You probably want to file actual Feature Requests for these though, as the forums are less likely to be noticed.

[JetroPag]

Thanks for the reply, Llorean! Those 2 and 3 aren't that important really, and nice to see the subtune change actually works already.

Thanks again.

[chris]

Hi, I just noticed today (yeah, i know it has been there for a while) that rockbox plays sids.

I found this even later ;-)

I read about this new feature it in a small interview in the cevi-aktuell.

I found some infos about the iRiver port here in the forum, but I have an Archos. Will the plugin work with a Archos Recorder, too?

Chris

[nls]

As the sid playback is done by a software codec it won't work on any of the supported archos players, sorry.

[chris]

What a pity :-(

Luckily there are some podcasts containing C64 music.

Chris

[pabouk]

You can use for example sidplay2 to create a WAV file and then for instance lame to encode it into MP3.

[chris]

For sure. But it would be much easier to copy all those fine .sid's from the HVSC to the Archos and listen to them without any encoding.

Chris