b*n??t will give all words starting with b and ending in n--t (eg. blanket)
* means any sequence of letters and ? means any single letter
Press Alt-D to lookup selected word at dictionary.com
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with screenshot and sample graphs on my maths page.
is a lean and mean media player. It handles CDs and their tracks really well, and has very low
resource usage. It can try to identify CDs and present the information in a window above the
player. It can get the properties of any file it is playing, and under Windows XP, these will
show bitrates, and, if it's an MP3 file, the song's artist and track info. It can optionally
introduce each song (DJ mode) and you can configure the introductions with a simple text
file. The MJIntros.txt file that comes with MJPlayer has lots of quotes from this site, and
other miscellaneous ditties. There are nearly 5,000 in the supplied file, and one is picked at
random every time to announce each track. Some examples of "announcements" that come pre-
defined for MJPlayer (these can be tailored to your own tastes - the # sign at the start of
each line means delay playing the track until the announcement is over, otherwise the
announcement talks over the track start) :-
#Terrific stuff from
#And now for
#Here we go with
#Wow, next up is
#Shit hot noise from
#Fucking massive sounds from
#Top notch tune by
#It had to happen. It's
#You'll cack your pants with
#Trance out with
#It's here. It's now. It's
#Very rare and very hip. It's
#This is the only station where you'll hear
#Melodic and beguiling. It's
#I couldn't believe it when I first heard %artist%. Here is %song% from the album %album%.
#We've got the best. We've got
#I saw %artist% live and they were incredible. Here they are now with their song %song% from %year%
#Utterly majestic and kicking,
#More phenomenal sounds now from
#This is track %track% from the monumental album %album% released in %year%. It's called %song% and it's by, of course, %artist%
If there is no mnemonic %artist%, %song%, %album% or %year% in the announcement, it puts
%artist% with a track called %song% [from the album %album%]
on the end of the announcement for you (the album bit is optional on whether it is known).
For example, it might say "Top notch tune by Led Zeppelin with a track called Dancing Days
from the album Houses of the Holy". Where such a mnemonic exists, it will substitute the
relevant information into place and say that. For example, it might say "I saw Magazine
live and they were incredible. Here they are now with their song Parade from 1978".
To change or edit the intros, simply right-click on the DJ checkbox. There is no limit to the
number of different intros you can have in the intros file. You can also have a very long intro
as long as it is all on one line. When a new song is about to start, an intro is taken at
random from the current intros file and used to introduce the track. The voice is configured
from the Speech applet in Control Panel. MJ Player tries to make the voice randomly intonated
to "humanise" it a bit. Have fun inventing your own DJ! If you haven't got it already, there are
2 extra voices for XP with the
SAPI 5.1 redistributable (10 MB).
It also has an infinite loop mode, with a seamless loop point. It can play all Windows
compatible formats that you have installed. You can get codecs to play Quicktime and Realmedia
file (but not stream) formats by emailing me.
After you have installed them, you should be able to play .mov and .ram files on your computer
with the player. If you can't, you'll need to add a couple of strings to the registry at location
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\MCI Extensions. I added strings
called mov, rm, and ram, and set their strings to MPEGVideo. The player will now play these
extra formats and you no longer need Quicktime player with its iPod adornments, or Real Player
with its snoopy habits. The 2 black buttons on the end can step back and forth by a fixed amount
of milliseconds, which you can set as low as 1ms, so you can frame-step through video sequences,
for example. The slider control shows where you are in the current track, and you can slide it to
where you want to hear from in the track, and play from there. You can record from your soundcard
in all the formats your computer has codecs for. Here is a small help section
(viewable by right-clicking the "Show Info" button) :-
mjplayer directory -r will load a playlist with all sound files in directory
(and subdirectories), randomise the playlist, then play it.
mjplayer -p will play the last playlist you used,
from the last track and position you were on.
mjplayer -p -r will play the last playlist you used in a random order.
The Record button can be used when nothing is playing. You enter a filename
which is given a .wav extension, and choose a sound format. It will then start
recording. You can press Stop to stop recording and choose whether to save it, or
you can press record again to stop recording and automatically save it.
You can add to the playlist either while the player is playing, or when it is stopped.
If it is stopped, the playlist can be restored to its original position by clicking the
"Played" label, or you can load the playlist before this one by right-clicking on it.
To start a fresh playlist, you should clear the current one by right-clicking
the Open Media File button before using it to open more files.
To save the current playlist, click the "Of" label. If you want to restore
the last saved playlist, right-click the "Of" label, when the player is stopped.
DJ Mode Mnemonics for Announcements (Right-Click DJ Checkbox)
%artist% is substituted for the name of the artist
%song% is substituted for the name of the song
%album% is substituted for the name of the album
%year% is substituted for the year of release
%track% is substituted for the number of the track
Prefix announcement line with '#' sign to suspend playing until announcement is done
The Record button can be used when nothing is playing. You enter a filename which is given a
.wav extension, and choose a sound format. It will then start recording. You can press Stop to
stop recording and choose whether to save it, or you can press record again to stop recording
and automatically save it. You can add to the playlist either while the player is playing, or
when it is stopped. Added tracks are sorted alphanumerically before adding them to the
playlist. To start a fresh playlist, you should clear the current one by right-clicking the
Open Media File button before using it to open more files.
You can recall the last playlist used before the current one, by clicking the "Played" label.
If you right click this label, the current playlist is reloaded. If you click the "Of" label,
the current playlist is stored. If you right click this label, the last stored playlist is
reloaded. To select a track from the playlist, click the track name label and choose from the list.
You can edit any of the playlists : the files are plaintext and they are named as follows :-
Contact me on my email submission form for queries about
any of the following software. None of these programs install anything to your PC - they
do not write anything to your registry (with the obvious exception of MJ Registry Watcher) and
they are all self-contained .EXE files - you simply make an installation directory for them,
and unzip them into, and run them from there. They were all developed with Borland C++ Builder
Professional v5 SP1, and they are free of charge.
