WINMIDI PLAYER 64

This is a QB64-PE compatible MIDI player library that uses Win32 WinMM MIDI streaming APIs.

FEATURES

• Easy plug-&-play API optimized for demos & games
• Works with both 64-bit and 32-bit QB64-PE complier
• Everything is statically linked (no DLL dependency; unlike this)
• Demo player that shows how to use the library
• Contains a simple asyncronous .WAV (ACM compressed) player too that supports looping. Great for background .WAV music

USAGE

• Clone the repository to a directory of your choice
• Open Terminal and change to the directory using an appropriate OS command
• Run git submodule update --init --recursive to initialize, fetch and checkout git submodules
• Open WinMIDIPlayer64.bas in the QB64-PE IDE and press F5 to compile and run
• To use the library in your project add the Toolbox64 repositiory as a Git submodule

API

Function MIDI_PlayFromMemory%% (buffer As String)
Sub MIDI_PlayFromMemory (buffer As String)
Function MIDI_PlayFromFile%% (fileName As String)
Sub MIDI_PlayFromFile (fileName As String)
Sub MIDI_Stop
Function MIDI_IsPlaying%%
Sub MIDI_SetLooping (ByVal loops As Long)
Function MIDI_IsLooping%%
Sub MIDI_SetPause (ByVal pause As Byte)
Function MIDI_IsPaused%%
Sub MIDI_SetVolume (ByVal volume As Single)
Function MIDI_GetVolume!
Function Sound_PlayFromMemory%% (buffer As String, Byval looping As Byte)
Sub Sound_PlayFromMemory (buffer As String, looping As Byte)
Function Sound_PlayFromFile%% (fileName As String, looping As Byte)
Sub Sound_PlayFromFile (fileName As String, looping As Byte)
Sub Sound_Stop
Sub Sound_Beep (dwFreq AS Unsigned Long, dwDuration AS Unsigned Long)

NOTES

• This requires the latest version of QB64-PE
• This works on Windows only because it makes use of the Windows API
• To use something more cross-platform see MIDI Player 64 or QB64-PE's $MIDISOUNDFONT
• When you clone a repository that contains submodules, the submodules are not automatically cloned by default
• You will need to use the git submodule update --init --recursive to initialize, fetch and checkout git submodules
• MIDI support is built into QB64-PE using TinySoundFont and TinyMidiLoader
• This can be used when you want to eliminate the extra storage used by soundfonts on Windows

ASSETS

• Icon by Paulo Freitas