PM123 1.32

• Introduction
• Download
• Plug-ins
• Last changes
• Development builds

Hello and welcome to the wonderful world of digital music on OS/2. PM123 is a high-quality digital audio player for IBM's OS/2 and eComStation operating systems. You can play MP3s, OGGs, WAV-files and even audio CDs. PM123 supports skins, audio streaming, plugins, visualization and more! PM123 has been in development since beginning of 1997 and has become the most advanced player on OS/2.

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Download


WARNING! WarpIn is required for installations of archives with the wpi-extension. You can download free copy of the WarpIn for OS/2 and eComStation from WarpIn support page.

Package	Size	Download
A compiled version of PM123 1.32	1984 KB	[Download]
A compiled version of PM123 1.32 in a WarpIn package	1954 KB	[Download]
A collection of skins for PM123 1.32	191 KB	[Download]
Source code of PM123 1.32	7237 KB	[Download]
Update for OS/2 and eComStation Unicode Conversion library. If you have incorrect song information after loading an audio file or after additions of files to the PM123 playlist, you need to fix your UCONV.DLL. Unpack this archive to any temporary directory and run UCONVTEST.EXE. If test has failed or crashed, run UCONVFIX.CMD /INSTALL and restart your system.	43 KB	[Download]

If it is necessary you can load old versions also.

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Development builds

You also can download a development builds of the PM123. Development builds are versions of PM123 that I create inbetween official releases, for testing purposes. They carry a date of production instead of a version number.

Current PM123 sources can be checked out through anonymous (pserver) CVS.

See also a development progress.

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Plug-ins

WARNING! All OS/2 files on this page was compressed using the Info-Zip. You can download free copy of the Info-UnZip for OS/2 and eComStation from Info-Zip support page.

Package	Author	Size	Download
Decoder plug-ins
Monkey's audio decoder plug-in v0.00	SofiyaCat	679 KB	[Download]
True audio decoder plug-in v0.00	SofiyaCat	543 KB	[Download]
Module files decoder plug-in v1.00	Kevin Langman	129 KB	[Download]
Musepack Living Audio Compression decoder plug-in v0.00	ntim	91 KB	[Download]
WavPack decoder plug-in v0.00	ntim	96 KB	[Download]
FLAC decoder plug-in v1.2.1-10	ntim	99 KB	[Download]
Others
Normalizer v0.2 (normalize the sound output when playing MP3 files)	Andreas Schosser	40 KB	[Download]
Time! v1.2 (turn off your computer automatically after a certain time or after a certain number of songs.)	Andreas Schosser	214 KB	[Download]
Crossfading-Plugin v1.5	Andreas Schosser	37 KB	[Download]
PM123 IRC scripts	Taneli Leppa	23 KB	[Download]

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Last changes

PM123 1.32

• Docking of windows became more accurate and powerful.
• Addition of a bookmark is disabled if is not present a loaded file.
• Added a new option to properties dialog allowing to choose a font used for display of playing titles. All skinned and non skinned fonts are scrolled smoothly, therefore the "smooth scroller" plug-in is removed from PM123 distribution and "-smooth" commandline switch is ignored. The skin now can define a color of the non skinned font. The SKINUTIL also define these color during the WinAmp skin conversion.
• Integrated last source codes of the Generalised Bitmap Module.
• Previous song in "random mode" does go to the previous song played, and next song does go back to the same song.
• More there are no messages about missed files at loading the playlist. Missed files are marked with a special icon and skipped at use of the playlist.
• The sources now can be compiled via Open Watcom 1.7.
• The sources now can be compiled via GNU C++. Thanks to Dmitry Froloff.
• Added support of cyrillic letters (russian cp866) to the first default skin font. Thanks to ntim.
• The default skin draws a bitrate digit by digit. Therefore all possible bitrates now are displayed correctly.
• Enabled the direct switching between fast forward and rewind. Thanks to Marcel Muller.
• PM123 now accepts urls dropped from Mozilla or WPS.
• PM123 uses new and powerful i/o engine. The new engine fully supports HTTP and FTP including a seeking feature.
• The playlist can be sorted by the track number.
• The position of the vertical split bar of playlist and bookmarks windows is restored after restart.
• Fixed a lot of stuff related to the playlist manager.
• The type of the saved playlist can be chosen in the save file dialog.
• Added support of the unicode playlist files (*.M3U8).
• All PM123 parts (playlist, bookmarks, playlist manager and player) now supports drag and drop operations completely. Also you can drag and drop records between us.
• Full support of SMP machines.
• PM123 plays smoothly on heavy-loaded systems.
• Now it is possible to edit the meta-information of group of files selected in the playlist.
• Added a technical information page to the file information dialog.
• The default skin is slightly improved.
• Used new nice and fully colored icons.
• The skin now can define colors of the playlist and other PM123 windows. The SKINUTIL also define these colors during the WinAmp skin conversion.
• Whole CD can be loaded from the main menu.

  MPG123

• Improved support of VBR mp3 files having a correct VBR header. Also improved support of VBR files without such header: timers and length of a song can be wrong, but there are no jerks of the seek slider.
• The decoder now correctly skip RIFF headers, ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags during playing a file.
• The decoder now correctly decode mpeg 2.x layer 3 files with low sample rate.
• The decoder now correctly decode mono mpeg 1.0 layer 1 files.
• The decoder any more does not eat the end of the played file.
• Seeking completes correctly when the decoder is close by the end of a played file.
• Supports ID3v2 tags.

  REALEQ

• The mute controls of the left and right channel are placed correctly.
• Fixed a behaviour of sliders at reaching the topmost position.
  Thanks to Marcel Muller for all following:
• Now used FFT convolution algorithm. The FFT convolution is about 10 times faster than MMX.
• Significantly improved filter kernel design.
• Thread-safe plansize & FIRorder changes.
• More aggressive window function.
• Larger FIR size, now up to 12288.

  CDDAPLAY

• Now shows correct bitrate and track size at playing a track.
• Seeking completes correctly when the decoder is close by the end of a played file.
• The CDDB cache now use the standard file-based form. Anyone can install the offline version of FreeDB database and use it without internet connection.
• The CDDB engine uses PM123 proxy settings.

  WAVPLAY

• Now shows correct bitrate at playing a file.
• Seeking completes correctly when the decoder is close by the end of a played file.
• Now play AIFF (Apple/SGI), AU (Sun/NeXT), CAF (Apple Core Audio File), IFF (Amiga IFF/SVX8/SV16), MAT4 (GNU Octave 2.0 / Matlab 4.2), MAT5 (GNU Octave 2.1 / Matlab 5.0), PAF (Ensoniq PARIS), PVF (Portable Voice Format), SD2 (Sound Designer II), SDS (Midi Sample Dump Standard), SF (Berkeley/IRCAM/CARL), VOC (Creative Labs), W64 (SoundFoundry WAVE 64), XI (FastTracker 2).
• Now can play files from FTP and HTTP servers.

  OS2AUDIO

• The output is more accurate and any more does not eat the head of the played file.
• Can adjust gain of the currently played file according to the recommended replay gain value (if decoder provide it). See plug-in configuration dialog and http://www.replaygain.org.

  OGGPLAY

• Can play Ogg Vorbis audio files.
• HTTP and FTP Streaming support including SHOUTcast and icecast.
• Fully supports Ogg Vorbis comment fields.

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