Sid Player on iPhone
You all know how much I adore the C64 sound aesthetics. This is the #1 program I was missing in my iPhone.
You all know how much I adore the C64 sound aesthetics. This is the #1 program I was missing in my iPhone.
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DnP wrote:
Yikes!!!! When?
Posted on 10-Dec-08 at 10:32 pm | Permalink
Kai wrote:
I hope soon!
Posted on 11-Dec-08 at 5:56 pm | Permalink
Stainy wrote:
Crap on a stick!!!
This is amazing news!!!
Posted on 16-Dec-08 at 10:12 am | Permalink
mickey wrote:
Out now!
Posted on 19-Dec-08 at 9:43 pm | Permalink
DnP wrote:
THX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on 20-Dec-08 at 9:42 pm | Permalink
DnP wrote:
In the next version may we copy the full HVSC from my PC to the iphone via wifi? I don’t want to download them one by one…
Posted on 20-Dec-08 at 10:00 pm | Permalink
Kai wrote:
Copy the full HVSC by wifi from your PC?
I think a download all button will be enough to solve this problem.
Posted on 26-Dec-08 at 2:52 am | Permalink
DnP wrote:
Kai: Ok
Posted on 26-Dec-08 at 1:16 pm | Permalink
MkDj wrote:
Absolutely brilliant! Use it every day and was well worth the money. Is anyone else having trouble playing some tunes? eg. Wizball (Martin Galway) default tune 4/9 plays for only 6 seconds? Tried removing app and cache but still no go …
Posted on 27-Dec-08 at 10:07 am | Permalink
DnP wrote:
MkDj: Turn ON override song length
Posted on 27-Dec-08 at 11:21 am | Permalink
mickey wrote:
Yeah, sorry about that, but it’s a problem in the HVSC song length database — some entries are completely bogus or even missing.
We should think about a simple method to submit corrections to the HVSC via the Sid Player.
In the meantime, DnP’s advice will work.
Posted on 27-Dec-08 at 2:21 pm | Permalink
MkDj wrote:
Thanks DnP that worked a treat
Didn’t actually try that as I didn’t want to fiddle past default settings incase I made it worse!
And thanks Mickey for clearing that up - never knew there was a problem in the HSVC song length database …
Posted on 27-Dec-08 at 3:32 pm | Permalink
DnP wrote:
Mickey: In the next release will it be possibe to use HVSC in offline mode? pls pls
Posted on 28-Dec-08 at 12:46 pm | Permalink
John wrote:
I’m using it now… But is this player interpreting all tunes correctly? Some don’t sound right…
Posted on 31-Dec-08 at 4:03 am | Permalink
mickey wrote:
John, do you live in a country where the TV-system is NTSC? If so, this could explain the difference. Version 1.1.49 (out in January) will feature switching NTSC/PAL.
Posted on 31-Dec-08 at 3:11 pm | Permalink
John wrote:
Mikey, I’m in Australia (PAL). Hopefully this issue will be fixed by next release. I’m still enjoying the tunes I can play.
Posted on 04-Jan-09 at 2:07 pm | Permalink
Stainy wrote:
It doesn`t seem to play tunes over 5 minutes… ie Parallax.. it stops.. even if you check the song length box in settings..
Posted on 22-Jan-09 at 3:21 pm | Permalink
mickey wrote:
Unfortunately we thought 5 minutes should be enough for the longest tunes… this will be set to 10 minutes in 1.1.49 (due soon).
Posted on 22-Jan-09 at 3:31 pm | Permalink
Bart - Amsterdam wrote:
Thanx a lot Michael! This is a very usefull app for SID lovers.
I hope there will be a favourites list option in the future with favourite title + tracks.
Posted on 01-Feb-09 at 12:45 pm | Permalink
enigma_loner wrote:
I ordered an apple i touch just for this application! Ive always wanted a portable SID player, without having to build a midibox one. Cant wait to try it.
Will you be putting a playlist creator feature, and visulizations on it?
Posted on 03-Feb-09 at 4:54 pm | Permalink
mickey wrote:
A playlist creator will definitely show up, just not in the next update though. Visualizations are tough, since we already max out the device’s CPU. We try hard to do some more optimizations though…
Posted on 03-Feb-09 at 6:23 pm | Permalink
Swamp wrote:
Hi thanks for this great app! There are some sid tunes that i have thats not included in the HVSC. I know how to transfer them to my iphone.. but in what folder do i place my own sids? i really hope that this is possible?
And also.. how do i delete ONE sid from my downloaded list? Thanks!
Posted on 13-Feb-09 at 5:50 pm | Permalink
mickey wrote:
Deleting SIDs from the list is supported in the update that’s been out since yesterday. Adding own SIDs will be featured in the next update, although we have an easter egg embedded in 1.1.49 with regards to browsing with mobile Safari. Try opening ’sidplayer://’ links.
Posted on 14-Feb-09 at 1:18 pm | Permalink
enigma_loner wrote:
Just downloaded latest ver. currently downloading entire libary. Very happy. Well done all involved. could you explain the easter egg to me? i know that defeats the object but oh well.
Big thanks
Posted on 18-Feb-09 at 1:22 am | Permalink
hippiefahrzeug wrote:
Is this forum the right place for iphone ’sid player’ related suggestions and bug reports? If so, I’d be delighted to give some feedback. Don’t worry, I love the app.
Posted on 19-Feb-09 at 4:33 pm | Permalink
mickey wrote:
Feel free to leave feedback here, however the canonical way is to send a mail to the support address (sidplayer [at] vanille [dot] de).
Posted on 19-Feb-09 at 4:52 pm | Permalink
Swamp wrote:
Wow the update was great! Good that you now can delete the tracks that you dont want. Looking forward to the function to add your own sids!
I have gotten error messages with some of my Sid tunes saying that the Sid track is to advanced to play and the track stops after a few seconds. and a red “!” appears to the left of the track in the “played” section. But i can still play them if i try again. a bug?
Posted on 19-Feb-09 at 8:27 pm | Permalink
Nullzero wrote:
You will have to forgive me for being such a newb to all this. To be blunt, I’m still not entirely sure what this app does. Is it mostly for playback or can it be used to compose tunes on your itouch/iPhone?
Posted on 20-Mar-09 at 1:28 am | Permalink
Thinktank wrote:
Nullzero, I’m not sure you’ll get an answer here. A lot of these boards are just bot forums created with a few dummy profiles and fake discussions to harvest emails. Either that, or your question was not SID player endorsing enough to respond to. You’d better just try it for $2.99 and determine for yourself.
Posted on 21-Mar-09 at 1:36 am | Permalink
mickey wrote:
@Thinktank: Your view may be applicable to most forums, you’re wrong here though.
@Nullzero: The Sid Player is “just” a playback engine for the C64 music that was very popular in the 80s and still is. As such you have access to over 35000 songs that have been handpicked by the very enthusiastic team that is responsible for the HVSC (High Voltage Sid Collection).
A full composer would be stellar, but is a major undertaking, something we can not deliver. Due to the low visibility and the high amount of (strange *cough* stuff) in the AppStore, iPhone development can only be a part-time job for us — hence we would not even try to create such a major thing as a SID composer.
Plus, we have the Sid Player Lite now so that you can have a free trial.
Cheers!
Posted on 21-Mar-09 at 1:41 am | Permalink
Monkeypunch wrote:
Okay, sorry for the , probably dumb, question at this sunday morning, but I can’t figure out how to transfer the whole HVSC-Library (v51) into my iPhone… Is it possible to to do it via my PC, I tried to drag and drop the package into iTunes which didn’t seem to work, or do I have to access http://www.hvsc.c64.org/ directly from my iPhone and download the whole library directly into my phone? As I have only a little amount of free MBs to download I want to be sure how it works before I download the package directly?
Thanks in advance…
P. S. the iPhone is not jailbroken…
Posted on 06-Sep-09 at 12:06 pm | Permalink
mickey wrote:
Note: Sid Player is free for good now to show our respect to the HVSC authors and community. If you want to support our work, then please download our other retro players… Sid Player Pro, Pokey Player, and Module Player. Cheers, Mickey.
Posted on 30-Nov-09 at 1:06 pm | Permalink
Murray wrote:
Love the player, Michael. You’re a legend.
Would be great if there was a download all button, so I can grab them all while on wifi, and hit the road with the full collection.
Keep up the top work!
- Murray
Posted on 20-Apr-10 at 3:30 am | Permalink
mickey wrote:
@murray: It’s a pleasure
Take a look at the .79 cent version or the slightly more expensive Pro version – they both have the download all button 
[must have at least a bit of incentive to facilitate further development…]
By the way, the version for iPhone OS4 due this summer will feature playing in the background and full access via headphone remote control (finally…). Lots of more cool features coming as well. Oh, and… it’s coming to your iPad as well in a special edition… stay tuned.
Posted on 23-Apr-10 at 12:38 pm | Permalink