If you’re a fan of role playing video games and their music, then you’re most likely aware of Jeremy Soule. He has composed several wonderful RPG video game soundtracks including Guild Wars, Neverwinter Nights and Morrowind: The Elder Scrolls III, as well as many others.
His web site is now pointing to a new service called Direct Song, where you can currently download the special edition of the soundtrack to Guild Wars for a mere $6.
The songs are delivered as Windows Media files with a Digital Rights Management license, but it’s very simple to burn the files with Windows Media Player and then rip that CD to MP3 for use in RPG Audio Mixer.
I want to make it clear that I do not condone illegally downloading music. I am simply reformating the files I’ve purchased for my own personal use and not sharing them.
Did some clean up on the code today and tried to get REAL Drag & Drop working. I’ve been having trouble getting FileTransfer in SWT to work correctly. Previously I was just using TextTransfer to hold a file path (a hack, really), but if I want to be able to drag and drop multiple files I should be using FileTransfer. Somewhere between dragSetData and drop my data gets lost. I can only assume it’s because I’m doing something wrong.
I also tweaked up the UI a bit and started on a few more context sensitive menus.
Here’s the improved UI:
Here’s the UI with some of the views turned off:
Here’s the improved spacing and the Directory context menu:
And the file context menu:
Just wanted to post a quick update saying I’ve made progress with Drag & Drop, the audio file browser and handling multiple selections. I also added some simple window controls (the ability to hide the any of the panels you don’t want to see). Once the Drag & Drop support is more complete, I will release an updated version.