configure per-filetype balance

[coderofsalvation]

first of all, thank you for this AWESOME player.

Usually I like to create a playlist and play it while working.
However, everytime a MOD is playing the music sounds very hardpanned left/right.
I tried configuring a per-filetype balance by adjusting ocp.ini:

[filetype 0]
  color=1
  name=MOD
  interface=plOpenCP
  pllink=playxm
  player=xmpPlayer
  balance=2                                           <---- I added this

However, that doesn't seem to work.

Is there another way to achive global balance-settings, but for particular filetype (MOD) another one?

[mywave82]

Per today there are only a global setting for the entire player for panning and balance:

ocp.ini

[sound]
panning=50
balance=2

Or command-line -vb2 -vp50 should work too

I have started to bring back from DOS version some "magic" keys for save/load/reset these settings too: ctrl+shift+f2, f3 and f4 - but these keys are not always available in ncurses etc.

Your suggestion of making a "profile" per playback plugin, or maybe even per file is not a bad idea.

[coderofsalvation]

Thanks for your swift reply.
I think the -vb2 solution works well enough, I could even create an alias ocp.mod to use for MOD-playlists only.

The profile-per-playback plugin is not a bad idea, but it's probably also something which might be lowprio compared to other ocp things you're working on (btw. which areas have your preferred focus atm/future)?

again, thank you very much for all the work you did so far.
It became quite a useful player for me.

[mywave82]

On the short-term TODO list I am going to look at warnings generated by new compiler versions :-)

Things that I will look into is simplify interface between playback plugins and output drivers. Currently all of them has to be able to generate 8bit, 16bit, signed, unsigned, mono and stereo in all combinations. Should be moved to output drivers alone.