How to use local URLs (including the local Syrinscape player) with v4.4 sound

[Trenloe]

This thread provides some ideas/insights into using the v4.4 file based sound playing for stuff other than local sound files.

I'm going to use the Syrinscape Fantasy Player as an example - but it can be applied to any URL that will carry out an associated action on the GMs computer.

It takes a little bit of work to get it going with the Fantasy Player - requiring setting up command/batch files to run the URLs.

For example, we have a couple of URLs taken from the Fantasy Player (accessible when 3RD PARTY APP INTEGRATION is enabled in Syrinscape settings):

syrinscape-fantasy:moods/YWJhbmRvbmVkLWx1bmF0aWMtYXN5bHVtOjpTdWNoIGEgc2FkIGVtcHR5IHBsYWNl/play/
syrinscape-fantasy:stop-all/

The first one players the "Such a Sad Empty Place" mood from the Abandoned Lunatic Asylum and the second stops all playing.

Put each of these in their own command/batch file within the FG data directory, with "start" before each (this is for Windows). And then take the complete path for each and add into the File Import window.

For me, 00 - Stop.bat is:

start syrinscape-fantasy:stop-all/

And, Such a Sad Empty Place.bat:

start syrinscape-fantasy:moods/YWJhbmRvbmVkLWx1bmF0aWMtYXN5bHVtOjpTdWNoIGEgc2FkIGVtcHR5IHBsYWNl/play/

Then you'll end up with something like this:



Obviously nowhere near as nice and slick as the one-click import for the web player. This is really an example of how you can use the Syrinscape Fantasy Player (and other URLs) to run media locally on the GMs computer. Maybe a community member can come up with an automated way of creating the command/batch files...

[Trenloe]

Reserved...

[Gwydion]

Really appreciate you posting this! Did you miss something at the end of the post? You say that you'll end up with something like this but there is nothing after "this"?

[Trenloe]

Did you miss something at the end of the post? You say that you'll end up with something like this but there is nothing after "this"?

Thanks for mentioning this, it looks like the attachment got messed up. Can you see the screenshot now?

[Gwydion]

Thanks for mentioning this, it looks like the attachment got messed up. Can you see the screenshot now?

Absolutely. I see it now. Thanks again!

[Lensman]

Thanks for putting in the time and effort to create this extension.

I was wondering: would it be possible to add filters based on ID3 tags within the audio file to the application? Although we can filter based on the file Title, being able to filter based on the following could allow users with large libraries an easier way to manage sounds "on the fly" as it were. The filters I think could be most helpful would be:
1) Artist
2) Album
3) Genre
4) Album Artist
5) Composer

Again, thanks for all the time and effort in creating this extension!

[Trenloe]

Thanks for putting in the time and effort to create this extension.
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Again, thanks for all the time and effort in creating this extension!

This thread doesn't have an extension. It's a guide to how you can use local files via URLs with the recently released sound file functionality in FG v4.4.

I was wondering: would it be possible to add filters based on ID3 tags within the audio file to the application? Although we can filter based on the file Title, being able to filter based on the following could allow users with large libraries an easier way to manage sounds "on the fly" as it were. The filters I think could be most helpful would be:
1) Artist
2) Album
3) Genre
4) Album Artist
5) Composer

That will have to be done in the base FG application. Good idea though - best to add it to the FG wishlist here: https://fgapp.idea.informer.com/

[Lensman]

Sorry Trenlore, thought this thread was for FGU SOUND - VLC SUPPORT.

Thanks for the quick response!

[mattekure]

This thread provides some ideas/insights into using the v4.4 file based sound playing for stuff other than local sound files.

I'm going to use the Syrinscape Fantasy Player as an example - but it can be applied to any URL that will carry out an associated action on the GMs computer.

It takes a little bit of work to get it going with the Fantasy Player - requiring setting up command/batch files to run the URLs.

For example, we have a couple of URLs taken from the Fantasy Player (accessible when 3RD PARTY APP INTEGRATION is enabled in Syrinscape settings):

syrinscape-fantasy:moods/YWJhbmRvbmVkLWx1bmF0aWMtYXN5bHVtOjpTdWNoIGEgc2FkIGVtcHR5IHBsYWNl/play/
syrinscape-fantasy:stop-all/

The first one players the "Such a Sad Empty Place" mood from the Abandoned Lunatic Asylum and the second stops all playing.

Put each of these in their own command/batch file within the FG data directory, with "start" before each (this is for Windows). And then take the complete path for each and add into the File Import window.

For me, 00 - Stop.bat is:

start syrinscape-fantasy:stop-all/

And, Such a Sad Empty Place.bat:

start syrinscape-fantasy:moods/YWJhbmRvbmVkLWx1bmF0aWMtYXN5bHVtOjpTdWNoIGEgc2FkIGVtcHR5IHBsYWNl/play/

Then you'll end up with something like this:



Obviously nowhere near as nice and slick as the one-click import for the web player. This is really an example of how you can use the Syrinscape Fantasy Player (and other URLs) to run media locally on the GMs computer. Maybe a community member can come up with an automated way of creating the command/batch files...

This is an interesting workaround. It seems like a lot of work, but it could work for some users. It seems like it would be very simple for the built in player to be adapted to allow use of the fantasy/sci-fi players as all the links for them are included in the CSV download. All it would take would be a toggle somewhere to say use online or use legacy, then point to the other link (this is basically what my ext does, it picks the link to use based on the setting). Maybe they will consider it as a future enhancement

[JimSocks]

All it would take would be a toggle somewhere to say use online or use legacy, then point to the other link (this is basically what my ext does, it picks the link to use based on the setting). Maybe they will consider it as a future enhancement

I am so upset that your extension no longer works, Mattekure! I can't stand the online player... I have older players and it's just too much logistics to constantly try and walk them through getting connected to me, and inevitably two of my 6 players are going to run into technical issues and give up. Not to mention one other thing I don't like about the online player: it does NOT play the same sounds for everyone! For instance, if you are playing a soundset full of Troll grunts, it plays the grunt sound files randomly for each listener. Our table doesn't like that, because when someone comments on a sound that nobody else heard it doesn't help immersion.

I NEED the ability to use my local player again, and I don't have the aeons of time necessary to go through manually creating every single one of the links like described above. FG's integration is nowhere near as svelte as what you cooked up- I mean yours was fire and forget, worked perfectly, allowed me to activate sounds just by clicking a map link, and with the chat links addon for triggering sounds based on the chat window (without the need to create every sound link from scratch!) it was a powerhouse, not to mention it let us use our local fantasy/sci-fi players and let us pipe that audio to our players however we needed to (our table pipes my local fantasy player's audio over zoom).

Unfortunately I can no longer get your extension to work Mattekure, and when I came here to learn why I discovered FG had "integrated" it into the software which I am guessing is the culprit