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Musical Thoughts... Blog
20th April 2023
I spent about an hour yesterday working on a new version of the site's Jukebox, before ultimately giving up with what I was doing and scrapping it all.
.. hmm..

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Essentially I was trying to get my game engine and warp it into a music player, which would've been nice, and had all flashy buttons and the like, but I couldn't decide on a good way to get the engine to work in a manner that wouldn't completely murder your device's battery.
The engine would've required the complete screen to be updated every frame, with visual data, clock timings, things like that.
Sure, it might've been nice to have an onscreen visualiser, but those will sap your battery like nobody's business.
The other option is to update every second or so, which is much more sensible, but doesn't let me "Winamp it up" in any fun way.

In the end, I think I'm stuck with doing things in a plain HTML manner, like it currently is.
I could still definitely do with shuffling things around a bit. That tiny little play button up at the top just isn't all that noticeable!

That's probably going to be what I'll tackle, today.
That, and get the P.P. game done, because that's still not done.
Eeek!

Plenty to work on.
Oh, and post the SoCoder newsletter, too, 'cos even though it's ready to go, I completely forgot to do it last night.. Oops!!


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