Modulus Software Presents... MuseX



Info: MuseX is a multimedia player for Garry's Mod. It has the ability to play a multitude of audio formats, including, but not limited to MP3, Wave, Ogg Vorbis, Windows Media Audio, and Midi. MuseX allows you to browse and play music from any directory, on any drive on your computer, with it's fully functional media browser.

Features:

• Fully functional media player, supporting seek and volume.
• Playlists.
• Support for a multitude of audio formats, anything you have codecs for.
• Hotkeys.
• Visualizations - Currently disabled.
• Browse any location on your computer for media.
• Special Derma skin system allows you to create your own skins without affecting the rest of your Derma panels.

Other Info: This was a collaboration between Foszor and I. He wrote everything you see. I wrote what you don't see, the module. The visualizations are disabled because in the initial version we had some crashing issues we'd like to fix before releasing those.

Installation:

1. Extract musex.zip into your garrysmod\addons directory.
2. Run install modules.bat, this will copy the modules to the required directories.

Usage:

• To open MuseX type musex into the console.
• Alternatively you can use the hotkey Ctrl+Shift+M.

Video:

View YouTUBE video http://youtube.com/watch?v=h_PdtyMGNe8

Download:

Huzzah! Enjoy.

Nice job, this is something I had wanted to do ( the module ), but was never able to. Very nice work, the both of you.

Really Nice job, the both of you.

Yesh, i was waiting for it :D
Is it just the vid, or the sound quality is a bit weird?

Brilliant! I've been waiting for a stable addon like this for bloody ages! Great work here guys, I love it! :D

Everything about this is perfect apart from the fact that the hotkeys editor doesn't detect media keys (play/pause, stop, next/back) on my keyboard.

Impressive.

Nice, i like it.

I hope the future is full of GUI customizing.

This is that what i really want!BIG thanks dude :D

You've been doing a lot of great stuff recently. Keep it up. :D

good work nice idea!

Good work! Hmm... this player can play video files? Hehe play-and-watch is a good idea!

Great! Now i have something to listen too while i am playing. :)

Cool!

I always wanted something like this, and the VGUI codecs system and the file browser are epic.

That is the best looking media player for a game that I've ever seen, downloading now.

Also, Lua King for you!

åäö aren't visible, makes the Swedish translation look odd.
Other than that, awesome!

Yay you released!

Great work as always. Now I can listen to music whilst riding your hoverboards :D

Can you broadcast other songs to people on your server?

Or would that require downloading the songs?

Awesome job guys!

Probably not :(

I know BASS can stream audio, but I dunno about DirectShow.

Besides, that would be a large performance hit - you'd have to upload the sound to everyone as you play it - it'd kill your upload and they'd most likely time out with a fair amount of people on the server.

Yeah I suppose it would be nice to have but I guess it is impractical.

Awesome :krad:

Really nice work, the both of you.

Looking forward to future presentations by Modulus Software.

Verry dumb question here but how do i open the museX screen?

Use musex in the console or Ctrl+Shift+M by default.

ETA for visualizations?

I installed it but it said:

Cannot find directory for install
cannot find directory for install

INSTALLATION IS COMPLETE


Is that meant to happen?

I doubt they have one seeing as it is crashing. I guess when the crashing is fixed :D

Can it open/import Winamp playlists?

Nope.

This is just pure win. Can't wait for visualizations!

KeithyCube paste folder to addons and click instaler.

cheers

Don't know if this is the addons or my fault but some reason it does not see my "My Music" folder but it sees my "My Ebooks" and sims 2 folders

It won't find hidden or system folders. My Music may be considered a system folder.

Oh ok and thanks for the fast reply but for the mean time i just put the folders into the documents folder and finds them fine but any way you can add an add folder to playlist option for faster music adding

Oh found a nifty fix for the my music problem if you delete the my music made by windows and remake it by adding new folder and name it my music windows will still notice it as my music but musex will still see it

Love the music in the video :)

That is the single most greatest derma menu I have ever seen!

And the smooth none laggy music!

Best addon of 2008 to me so far.

Jinto and Foszor, you have out done yourselves again. :D

Hey Jinto the shortcut keys don't work and you can't change the binds through the GUI, only in the console.

Please report bugs and requests to our mantis to help us better track your input

http://www.foszor.com/mantis/

Yeah, i got that too

The console command is probably blocked.

Craptube always degrades video and sound quality when you upload a video to there, so most every video has some degradation.

Veoh doesn't do that so if people started uploading there, it would be at whatever resolution it was recorded at.

Finally! I've been waiting for this since you showed it off! Downloading now!

Great mod. Love it alot and use it every second of my gmod time :)

Is it possible for this to play .avi or .mpeg movies? That would kick even more ass!

Hold on a sec!

Visualizations?
Avi and Mpeg movies?
This is a media player in a GAME!

I can understand playing music in-game (we all do that) but surely while PLAYING GMOD we have more interesting things to be looking at than a movie or a visualization!

Get some perspective here and think how you would actually use this - I use it to play music in the background while building or RP'ing or on HL2 Campaign etc. I DON'T want some music video or spectrum analyzer waveform popping up distracting me!

However, here is an idea - can support for Shoutcast radio streams be included?

I agree with this, if you going to add processor intensive features such as this, the least you can do is have a way to toggle them off, I'm all for playing music in my games but I don't want extra slowdowns or distractions due to features that really shouldn't be in a media player for a game.

What do you mean popping up distracting you?

You only see visualizations if you have the window open, and you can turn them off anyway. Your whole point is invalid.

However, I too would like Shoutcast support. I have a few favourite stations.

Actually you missed the point Stylus. (And Xplodzion added a point I missed :P)

Visualizations (and movie playing support) do not belong in an in-game media player at all - your attention should be on the game, and the processor ticks should be dedicated to the game - not on some wavegraph calculations. The ability to disable the vis is appreciated, but does that stop calculating the waveforms as well? And I still believe the feature doesn't belong in a in-game player at all anyway.

The visualizations are just a novelty. You don't have to have them enabled, but we are allowing it to be possible so people with no programing experience can use their Lua knowledge to create visualizations...

It would be interesting to see what people in the community come up with and release.

thank's man this is great.

I made an account with mantis but it's taking for ever so, when it's on shuffle mode sometimes it plays the same song again which is abit annoying.

Simply amazing! I love the interface the most, so clean.

Mine doesn't seem to want to play nicely. I've installed it to the addons folder, clicked the batch file, it worked up until ingame. I try on of my songs (mp3 format) and it doesn't work at all. I try an mp3 and all i get is


I tried the default "musex.wav" thing which it came with (found it on the desktop) and it played that no problems.

anyone else?

Hey if you had an all-in-one music/video player and browser in that thing..i'd say about every gmod player would get it :P. (was thinking it would be cool to watch video tutorials on a site while playing using this addon)

Wow, I would like to see something like this in the Steam Community UI overlay.

Looks good!

This is a simple request as stated by someone else, but...

Do you think you could consider adding a way to play this over microphone, similar to what HLSS does? Not sure how it would be implemented, but if you could do it that would be great!

That's :krad: :wooow: !!

♪♫♫♪

Best. Lua Script. Ever!

VERY VERY nice

This mod Rocks! if you disagree...Don't!

AWESOME MOD !!!!

Can it deal with non-latin symbols in filenames or folders?

Edit:

Like “Моя музыка”

Yea, when I have a really long list and I have it on shuffle, it will give me this about 60% of the time until it finds the next song, which is almost in a pattern, and can be predicted half of the time. :(

Other than that, this addon rocks!

Would be fucking awesome if you could play videos!

REALLY! Add it!

Very nice work guys :D

It is some awesome work there.
I would be proud to do something like that well done!

Very nice!

I have written this into Norwegian. I can send it to you, if you will pack it with the other languages?

Just PM me.

Will it play online radio like www.gwradio.org because it's a pain to keep alt tabbing

The same thing happens to me to.
I extracted it into " C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\eavind\garrysmod\garrysmod\a ddons

*edit*

It worked now, all I did was delete the file from addons, and extract it again.

Just a quick question. Does the media player play the song to everyone in the server, or just you?

Edit:

Oh yeah and great job :D

Holy shit. Good job!!

Awesome! Is this Clientside?

Will it ever play video?

What is wrong with this?
http://garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=29851

I'll update the module to return an error code for that. But if it fails to render the file, that could mean one of many things.

The first one that comes to my mind is that you don't have the proper filters to play the file.

I doubt we'll add that. It does kind of get annoying. But I'll talk with foszor.

Go ahead and PM the language to foszor or myself, and we'll include it.

We may add support for SHOUTCast. It'll require some additional steps that normal audio files do not, code wise.

Just you, it's clientside.

See above.

If Garry exposes the material system interface to the modules.

Valve is considering implementing a media controller into the Steam Overlay that allows you to control iTunes, WMP, or WinAmp in-game.

Can you play porn on it? Lol.

Whats next an in game recorder so you can record stuff then you will open something similar to this then edit it? this has unlocked new means!

You should add a transparent overlay so you can see the current song, time left etc...

Nice, I'm tired of minimizing for itunes!