Trayplay application one song behind12/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() On startup the application will add a tray icon to the windows system tray. I need to add WPF support to get full access to and KeyGestureConverter class. ![]() I use windows forms for the about box and context menu. ![]() ApplicationĭotNet 5.0 windows forms/WPF application. I have my server stream defined, and Ctrl+Alt+P as the hot key. Look at Constants.cs to configure AudioPlayer to your requirements. Using a tray icon, and a global hot-key my windows box can now quickly play and pause the audio. What I wanted was a quick way to play and pause the source without having to navigate a web page. Adjust the source on the server and all the clients automatically pick up the new source. Then any client (Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, etc) can play that stream in the standard web browser. This works great, just play your favorite audio provider on the server (music, audio books, conferencing, etc). On my server I am running Rocket Broadcaster to capture audio playing on the server and stream it out as an IceCast 2 audio stream. So I created this simple app that uses Windows Media Player COM object to play the audio stream coming from the server. My goal was a quick an easy way to play and pause music on any PC in the house. I also have a server that is streaming music 24 x 7. A bit of background, most of the TV’s in our house have a PC attached. This one's also going to be short, as the software I am about to review is one of the smallest music players I have ever encountered: only 40KB and handling more files than both me and you were expecting.The motivation behind this simple tray icon was to create an easy way to play an audio stream on my windows devices. Technically, it has been developed to meet the needs of people who wanted to listen to some music, but also keep both their PCs' resources free and the taskbar space free as well, while not being that much concerned about endlessly tweaking innumerable settings and being too much concerned about 16, 24 or 32-bit sound. Well, despite the fact that Tray Play is a software about which to say "simple" is more than an exaggeration, it is just perfect and almost elite for its intended purpose: running on less than 7MB of RAM and on almost zero CPU, Tray Play seems to be the ideal player for "lesser" runs.īelieve me, it was hard to write about the Tray Play, as the instant I clicked in my text editor, the player went to the system tray :)) After some ridiculous attempts, I managed to put a screenshot instead of the real program and thus finished my article. Speaking from a designer's point of view, the design of Tray Play is rather poor, if we can even speak of a design at all. Don't even think of skins or color schemes as the Tray Play does not even have menus: it's just a window in which everything in Tray Play has been bundled. While the Win98 look is king, the readability and intuitiveness haven't been impaired at all, believe it or not! One doesn't need extensive knowledge on players or PC to find his/her way through the Tray Play: the GUI has been "divided " in 3 areas, each with a very clear purpose thus making the whole interface very easy to both understand and use. The left side houses the few buttons for the options and the volume bar at the bottom of the window the very few transport control buttons, the Hide button and the seekbar (I wasn't expecting this, honestly). Finally, the largest part of the screen was fit for a Win Explorer-like navigation system: the left part will let you browse the contents of your PC's drive(s) while the right pane will display supported files found in the selected folders. It simply can't get simpler than it already is!Ĭlicking one file automatically triggers playback, so if you really are one man sworn on simply listening to music, you'd appreciate the speed. Tray Play features options like repeat (non-stop play), random and play on start, so the basics (if I may say so) are already implemented of course, if you think you need more, then Tray Play is not the tool for you. It crossed my mind to write about drag and drop and I burst into laughter as I realized you simply can't drag files in the Tray Play: the moment Tray Play isn't focused anymore it autohides to tray :)) One can't run playlists in Tray Play, because this is already advanced technology: in the worst case you'll copy some fav music to a single folder and then load it in the Tray Play. ![]()
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