[Blue Room]

MultiPlay is an audio cue player for theatre and corporate use written by Audio Visual Devices P/L

Product page: http://www.audiovisualdevices.com.au/softw...play/index.html

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Announcement supplied by: David Duffy
Software release: 2.1.1.0
Release date: 11/10/2009

Link: http://www.audiovisualdevices.com.au/softw...y/multiplay.php

New Features:

• New: Advance button to skip to the next cue early – good for rehearsal
  
• New: Option to hide fractional seconds for Elapsed & Remaining time
  
• New: Hot Buttons window to trigger specified cues – good for touch screens
  
• Fixed: Could paste cue after Show End
  
• Fixed: Removed debugging text (during Wait cue) from the main form's caption
  
• Fixed: List Properties appeared off-screen on most monitors (causing apparent lock-up)
  
• Fixed: Play List cues didn't work correctly with sub-folders in Fixed Path Mode
  
• Changed: Fixed Path Mode status also stored in cue list to allow auto mode selection
  
• Fixed: Error when printing or exporting cue list

Full details of changes: from http://www.audiovisualdevices.com.au/softw...ase%20notes.pdf

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Past Releases

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Announcement supplied by: David Duffy
Software release: 1.6.1.0

Release date: 26/05/2007

New features:

• Fixes a bug in 1.6.0.0 to do with the Fade All Previous, etc start action.
  
• Also fixes a bug where the fade cues don't load correctly from a saved file.

Announcement supplied by: David Duffy
Software release: 1.6.0.0

Release date: 21/05/2007

New features:

• Now supports multiple sound cards for program outputs. Each cue can be independently routed to 1 of 4 audio devices.
  
• HTML help file has been updated
  
• Play lists can now be previewed
  
• Faster saving of cue lists to USB drives
  
• Various bug fixes

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Announcement supplied by: David Duffy
Software release: v.1.5.9.0
Release date: 9/5/2007

Link: http://www.audiovisualdevices.com.au/softw...play/index.html
Features:

• Plays multiple audio files simultaneously.
  
• Supports a wide variety of audio formats.
  
• Cue lists can be saved, loaded, exported and printed.
  
• Growing list of cue types: Audio, Pause, Serial, Fade, Play List.
  
• Multiple sound card support for program and preview audio output.
  
• Configurable cue list.
  
• Plenty of options available in a preferences window.

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Announcement supplied by: David Duffy
Software release: 1.6.4.0
Release date: 24/6/2007

New Features:

• Fixed selection bug when using multiple identical audio output devices.
  
• "Paste Special" command for applying selected properties from a copied cue.
  
• Can now insert audio cues without associated audio file. (for pre-production)

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Announcement supplied by: David Duffy
Software release: 2.0.6.1
Release date: 27/06/2009

Link: http://www.audiovisualdevices.com.au/softw...y/multiplay.php

New Features:

• Overhaul of interface.
  
• Changed to XML format for cue file
  
• Heaps of new features
  
• Lots of bugs squashed

Full details of changes: from http://www.audiovisualdevices.com.au/softw...ase%20notes.pdf

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Announcement supplied by: David Duffy
Software release: 2.1.1.0
Release date: 11/10/2009

Link: http://www.audiovisualdevices.com.au/softw...y/multiplay.php

New Features:

• New: Advance button to skip to the next cue early – good for rehearsal
  
• New: Option to hide fractional seconds for Elapsed & Remaining time
  
• New: Hot Buttons window to trigger specified cues – good for touch screens
  
• Fixed: Could paste cue after Show End
  
• Fixed: Removed debugging text (during Wait cue) from the main form's caption
  
• Fixed: List Properties appeared off-screen on most monitors (causing apparent lock-up)
  
• Fixed: Play List cues didn't work correctly with sub-folders in Fixed Path Mode
  
• Changed: Fixed Path Mode status also stored in cue list to allow auto mode selection
  
• Fixed: Error when printing or exporting cue list

Full details of changes: from http://www.audiovisualdevices.com.au/softw...ase%20notes.pdf

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This post has been edited by Bobbsy: 07 February 2010 - 02:54 AM

[Bobbsy]

Bump for new version

[willdoweuk]

Windows 7 support?

[Gerry]

willdoweuk, on 10 June 2011 - 12:04 PM, said:

Windows 7 support?

Just downloaded and installed it.
Runs OK under Windows 7
Cheers
Gerry

[Gerry]

Gerry, on 10 June 2011 - 12:18 PM, said:

willdoweuk, on 10 June 2011 - 12:04 PM, said:

Windows 7 support?

Just downloaded and installed it.
Runs OK under Windows 7
Cheers
Gerry

Now I've got further into the program some features, Cue Control, Preview, don't appear to work.
I have emailed the author.
Cheers
Gerry

[David Duffy]

Email reply sent Gerry.

Some users have reported success under Windows 7, while others have reported that the sound quality is poor. I can only assume that this is some issue with the audio drivers? I don't have a Windows 7 machine so I can't really help with it yet.

Latest version (2.5.1.6) is located here.

[willdoweuk]

That's the thing. It seems to have a poor sound quality on my laptop - but not my desktop. Maybe a driver update is needed.

And I also had it crash catastrophically 5 minutes before a show. I even rebooted several times but nothing. (Praise the Lord for the backup CD) But it was running well throughout rehearsals. So frustrating as not I can't bring myself to trust it. Even though it would be a really really useful piece of software.

[David Duffy]

Can you detail the steps that led up to the crash and in what way it crashed?

EDIT: Maybe these posts need to be moved over to the main MultiPlay thread. Thanks.

This post has been edited by David Duffy: 11 June 2011 - 01:17 AM

[gafferted]

I've just installed 2.5.3.0 on a laptop with Widows 7, using a Focusrite Saffire 6 audio interface.

I've always used Sound Cue 8 in the past on an XP machine, but it won't work under Vista or 7 so I'll have to get up to date! I'm therefore new to Multiplay so can't comprehensively test all the functionality bit it seems to work fine on the Windows 7 pc.

Audio quality was awful though. A 320kb mp3 played by Multiplay sounded really muffled. It was fine played using VLC however, so I assume the sound card etc. is working properly.

But...Convert the track to a wav (via Lame), and I can't tell the difference between playing that via Multiplay or VLC. It sounds fine.

I generally compile most fx uncompressed anyway so it's not too much of an issue but the playlist feature for interval music etc is very handy - especially if it can be got to work with mp3 files.

So thanks David for a fab piece of software - and hopefully this is of help in future releases.

Eddie

[DrummerJonny]

There is a known issue with Multiplay and playing MP3 on Windows 7. I emailed David (the software author) and all he could suggest was converting to wav, as you already have.

[gafferted]

Thanks Johnny - It seems the problem is the same on Vista too - I've tried it on my desktop machine with two different sound cards. Wavs are fine but not mp3 files.

I guess the problem is with the decompression, not the audio drivers for the soundcard.

Also, previewing cues using headphones and the built-in soundcard (on Vista), it sounds very much like mp3 files are playing in muffled mono whereas wavs play in lovely stereo.

One for the expert I feel - when you get a spare few days David!

This post has been edited by gafferted: 16 April 2012 - 03:01 PM

[DrummerJonny]

IIRC when I was trying to fix this I tried several different drivers (ASIO) so I believe you're correct.

I also seem to recall David didn't have a W7 machine so was unable to test effectively, whether this has changed or not now I am unsure.

It is rather annoying as I have some funny issues with multiplay and WAV files. it appears to lose track of its position within the file and then find it again (elapsed / emain disappear). The file still plays fine, but any control cues affecting the file have no effect while the bug is happening.

Has anybody else experienced this?

This post has been edited by DrummerJonny: 16 April 2012 - 06:28 PM