What is MusicQuiz? ^
MusicQuiz is a game where you guess the song the program is
playing, and it gives you points for right answers and so on.
You can choose the directories from your computer (or network) where
it will search for songs it plays
What you might want to know
- Supports any audioformat - Uses Windows' own media interface
and therefore any file should play (provided appropriate codecs are
installed)
- Note that the current version is a BETA - Bugs etc. may exist.
- Bug reports, suggestions, ideas etc. ->
zomg@quakenet/whatever
- Programmed in C# using Visual C# EE B2
- I like music
Current version ^
You can get the latest version of MusicQuiz from Here.
Note that you might get an error saying "Failed loading config: Could
not find file 'c:\mqconfig.xml'"... ignore it. Will fix itself on
restart.
The linked file is the actual program itself. It doesn't need
installation or unzipping.
Note: You need Microsoft .NET Framework 2.*
The program will crash if you don't have Framework 2. You can
get it
from Here
Version history ^
Here you will find the changes in the program since the release of
this website.
- Beta 0.8.5
- Changed the way config file is loaded and errors parsed. Will load
all settings which can be corretly found and falls back to defaults for
others - instead of reseting everything when one setting fails to
load
- High scores now save the round count in addition to other info -
Will probably be used later in sorting the scores
- Added an about box... with something which may make you want
to open it... again and again.
- Added rounds to the main form in addition to game options
- Added a Go! button for starting the game
- Beta 0.8
- High-Score list - displaying names may be bit buggy tho
- Player name and song set selection on main form
- Fixed buggy scan dirs button in Song set settings form
- Made song list field longer
- Beta 0.7
- Added config-file version numbering to quickly detect changed
file-format
- Saves config-file to the directory where the application file is run
instead of c:\
- Song sets replace audio directories. Similar in functionality, but
you can now save directories as sets. Also, highscores will be linked to
the songset used.
- Making two song sets with the same name and making one of them
default will probably make the app behave strangely... so don't do
it.
- Beta 0.6
- Directories now scanned recursively
- Beta 0.5.1
- Fixed a bug in the internal file list
- Beta 0.5
Future plans ^
Things I might implement on future releases:
- Different scoring system. One that is based on points instead of
rights/wrongs
- Songs start around the mid section or
something and
play only for a
certain time. Answering faster gains more score
- Showing the song's info in a better format. Eg. Artist - Title
instead of the current way where you see the filename.
- The above will require tag support or parsing of filenames - So, tag
support
- Hotseat play (Players control with keyboard instead of mouse)
- Network play (don't expect this very soon, requires a myriad
of advanced techniques like streaming the songs over the net etc.)