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I bought playerpro and we used it for a while, been a long time since I thought of it. I just checked my old Mac CD case and it's not in there, oh well. We also

I bought playerpro and we used it for a while, been a long time since I thought of it. I just checked my old Mac CD case and it's not in there, oh well. We also switched to reason around version 3-5.

MarcelOlsz 1y ago
If you ever do find that disc I'd love to buy it from you lol.
- genewitch 1y ago
  at the very least, you've made up my mind that i need to photograph every 4 disc page in all of my cases, and label the cases. Right now it's like "MissingHandleCase" and "RightLockBrokenCase" and "LocksIntactWithStrapCase" and "LargestUnderBedCase"! I do have discs from that era, as i have 680x0 Mac Performa OS discs - the ones that are silver and black with pixel / icon art of the mac smiley face on them. When i still had an actual SATA optical drive on a machine i was contemplating indexing all of my optical media. I started with some software on windows and it wasn't very good, i looked around for other options and came up with nothing. So i rely on my (admittedly non-perfect) memory of what i had on disc, up to ~30 years ago. I may as well admit: I tried to "patent" an optical media "case" that mechanically held the middle of the disc, like a laptop cdrom spindle does, but with a button to release them so you didn't need to "bend" the disc to remove it. I had cad drawings and everything. But the vaultz cases are "good enough" for my usage - where i rarely, if ever, remove discs from their sleeves. As long as the cases aren't jostled regularly, and never left open and exposed to dust, and kept in a controlled environment (not too hot, not too cold, not too wet, not too dry), i don't forsee any issues from the storage of the discs. Whether or not the foil layer or glue or any of that holds up - well, my optical disc case design was actually gasket sealed, and had something like a Schraeder valve to pump air out, or nitrogen in; this probably would have made the foil and glue last longer. I had completely forgotten i had invented that until i started commenting on the longevity of my optical media. Sorry. Amateur archivist, here. Nice to meet you.
- dumpsterdiver 1y ago
  Well now I need one. I used PlayerPro even before I started experimenting with the terminal based trackers (FastTracker, etc). It’s so weird, but I can still see an image of the tracker screen from a specific time in my life, and feel echoes of the way it made me feel.
  - genewitch 1y ago
    have you ever seen/used paragon 5 gameboy tracker? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiy5dEgV9-s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiy5dEgV9-s obviously i've seen it, but i never wrote anything in it, it makes my eyes hurt. I still use modplug tracker / openMPT (openmpt.org, funded until 2032!), and taught my youngest how to open and play songs with it, and i have a lot of files it can open. thousands.
    - MarcelOlsz 1y ago
      This is absolutely awesome and about as much as I can mentally handle when it comes to a DAW.
duskwuff 1y ago
It's open-source now, but never made the transition to 64-bit APIs. https://sourceforge.net/projects/playerpro/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/playerpro/

I bought playerpro and we used it for a while, been a long time since I thought of it. I just checked my old Mac CD case and it's not in there, oh well. We also switched to reason around version 3-5.

MarcelOlsz 1y ago

If you ever do find that disc I'd love to buy it from you lol.

genewitch 1y ago
at the very least, you've made up my mind that i need to photograph every 4 disc page in all of my cases, and label the cases. Right now it's like "MissingHandleCase" and "RightLockBrokenCase" and "LocksIntactWithStrapCase" and "LargestUnderBedCase"! I do have discs from that era, as i have 680x0 Mac Performa OS discs - the ones that are silver and black with pixel / icon art of the mac smiley face on them. When i still had an actual SATA optical drive on a machine i was contemplating indexing all of my optical media. I started with some software on windows and it wasn't very good, i looked around for other options and came up with nothing. So i rely on my (admittedly non-perfect) memory of what i had on disc, up to ~30 years ago. I may as well admit: I tried to "patent" an optical media "case" that mechanically held the middle of the disc, like a laptop cdrom spindle does, but with a button to release them so you didn't need to "bend" the disc to remove it. I had cad drawings and everything. But the vaultz cases are "good enough" for my usage - where i rarely, if ever, remove discs from their sleeves. As long as the cases aren't jostled regularly, and never left open and exposed to dust, and kept in a controlled environment (not too hot, not too cold, not too wet, not too dry), i don't forsee any issues from the storage of the discs. Whether or not the foil layer or glue or any of that holds up - well, my optical disc case design was actually gasket sealed, and had something like a Schraeder valve to pump air out, or nitrogen in; this probably would have made the foil and glue last longer. I had completely forgotten i had invented that until i started commenting on the longevity of my optical media. Sorry. Amateur archivist, here. Nice to meet you.
dumpsterdiver 1y ago
Well now I need one. I used PlayerPro even before I started experimenting with the terminal based trackers (FastTracker, etc). It’s so weird, but I can still see an image of the tracker screen from a specific time in my life, and feel echoes of the way it made me feel.
- genewitch 1y ago
  have you ever seen/used paragon 5 gameboy tracker? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiy5dEgV9-s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiy5dEgV9-s obviously i've seen it, but i never wrote anything in it, it makes my eyes hurt. I still use modplug tracker / openMPT (openmpt.org, funded until 2032!), and taught my youngest how to open and play songs with it, and i have a lot of files it can open. thousands.
  - MarcelOlsz 1y ago
    This is absolutely awesome and about as much as I can mentally handle when it comes to a DAW.

duskwuff 1y ago

It's open-source now, but never made the transition to 64-bit APIs. https://sourceforge.net/projects/playerpro/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/playerpro/