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80 points tomaspollak | 5 comments | | HN request time: 1.032s | source

10 years ago I began working on Muki, a web-based MIDI and chiptune player which I eventually announced here on HN[0]. It was a fun weekend project.

Over the years I received numerous requests from people that wanted more: more music, more features, more playable formats, you name it.

Eventually I began working on a complete rewrite of the app (this time for real), and, realizing that each year another chiptune or MIDI website went offline, I decided to start archiving them for preservation.

Today, 10 years after the first release, I think it's finally time for the new, nicer version to hit the shelves. It's now called Pixeltune and yes, now you can actually turn down the volume. :)

Hope you like it!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10305918

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nyanpasu64 ◴[] No.41219441[source]
Is it possible to loop a song infinitely? This is a standard feature for chiptune emulation playback programs (vgmstream, GEP, foobar2000, Audacious, Droidsound-E, etc.).
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1. tomaspollak ◴[] No.41219654[source]
You're right! This is definitely doable, but... wouldn't you eventually want to listen to _other_ songs?

There's currently a 2:30 min time limit on songs so that they don't loop forever. I plan to make this configurable, so I could allow setting it to a very long timeframe (something like 10 minutes or so).

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2. jader201 ◴[] No.41220728[source]
I mean, when I played some NES games, I might hear the same level loop for 30 minutes before I hear the next level. My brain can’t compute hearing the song from a level for only one loop. :)
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3. monkpit ◴[] No.41220782[source]
Alternatively: what’s the reason _not_ to allow this?
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4. tomaspollak ◴[] No.41220868[source]
Time, of course. ;)

Already at the top of the TODO list, though.

5. tomaspollak ◴[] No.41220896[source]
Ok case closed. The maximum option will be 30 minutes then!