Hi. I really like Fubar2000. It's an excellent player, and it plays SPCs very well. Can you please implement ID666 tags into the next release? Thanx and keep up the good work.

SPC's rock . I'd love to see NSF (the NES sound format) and GYM (the Genesis sound format) support.

I second that. B)

I'll triple that NSF support thing. I've talked to Peter about it. From what I understand, and if I recall things correct, he needs the source to some FreeBSD or LGPL licensed NSF thingie. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Umm.. Does Nezplug fit the bill there?
http://nezplug.sourceforge.net/

Sounds pretty good, and although I don't see what licence it runs under, it appears to be 'free software' according to the readme.

Only xid6 tags are supported at present release, ID666 support is already working and will be released soon.

Uhmmm, excuse my ignorance but what's spc?

SPC's are Super Nintendo (SNES) sound/music files.
If you want to get "some" go to Zophar's Domain's SPC archive.
Those can be "ripped" from SNES ROMs. A great SNES emulator is snes9x (definately not just for Win9x ), many also like ZSnes.

Oh and SNES means Super Nintendo Entertainment System. SPC means...hmm beats me.

Since there are no actual terms in the readme, it's simple copyrighted software and unusable in any other software, including free ones.

I've tried Zsnes, very cool.

I like "Nosefart NSF player", it has very good quality, it's GPL. Here you can download the DOS player, the Winamp plugin and the source code.

Building a plug-in requires static linking against the SDK, which is not GPL. Anybody remember UADE/WA3? (Not that I remember anything more than the authors forcing its discontinuation, although they also specified on their main page that any ports or such have to be sent to them for assimilation into the collective knowledge. That forced shutdown proves that resistance is futile.)

Could the SDK be translated over to a dynamically linked library then? That'd sure help for GPL'ed stuff, if the static link is forbidden by the GPL. Alternately, Peter could GPL the SDK, then the static link would be no problem. Is anything like this being considered?

On a somewhat related note, is there going to be a semi-unchanging SDK released any time soon? I'm interested in creating a Delphi port of it to mess around, but I'm not too keen on doing all that hacking repeatedly, especially when C source code is as unwieldy as it is.

Static linking or dynamic linking makes no difference for GPL.

The only solution for GPL'ed stuff is named 'DEL' (or rm)

I tried http://sourceforge.net/projects/nezplug page and there they have info about the license. It uses zlib/libpng License which looks like BSD to me.

And Nosefart is GPL by an author who appears to have dropped off the web for over a year now, and he had no problems sticking GPL on his plug-in, even though it was to be dynamically linked by a closed source application. Or maybe then it was the user's choice to be breeching the GPL by using it.

Cool, the new version has ID666 support. Many thanx!!

P.S. Is it me? No other player handles SPC so well as Fubar2000 (no crackle at all!!!)

foobar2000 has the most accurate spc file playback engine implemented.

He almost certainly just used the GPL to be 'cool', without understanding any of the implications of the licence. You'll find that a lot of people have done that -- particularly in the Windows software realm. To take an example in a different field, XviD (my favourite MPEG-4 video codec) is GPL, and I'm still convinced that makes it illegal to use as a windows .DLL in anything closed (such as, for example, Media Player). None of the developers care, of course.

With a nickname like "Shady" ....heh.