BASS.DLL for Game Maker

What is BGM?

It is an extremely simplistic front-end to Un4seen.com's BASS.DLL that acts as a bridge between BASS and Game Maker. In other words, it is a system that uses Game Maker's functionality to use external DLL files as a means to improve Game Maker's music-playing abillities. In other other words, BGM lets you play all sorts of tracked music formats like MOD, IT and XM in your Game Maker games.

Go to the BGM forum topic at the Game Maker Community

Feature List

• Extremely simple interface
• Total amount of data added to your game is less than 200kb
• Support for MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MTM, UMX, MO3 (see below), WAV, AIFF, MP3, MP2, MP1 and OGG.
• Supports un4sen.com's hybrid compressed-tracked format, MO3.
• Uses the latest version of BASS.DLL (which is 2.3 at the time of this writing)
• Play, play looped, pause, stop
• Quick Play - This allows you to easily load and play a song simply by passing it's filename, then automatically stop and unload it when you're done.
• Can use whatever output format you want
• File- and Internet-Streaming for sampled formats
• Load and play as many songs as your system can handle (quite a few, usually)
• Volume, panning, and playback speed control
• Access to many module attributes, such as sample/instrument/channel volumes, pan seperation, etc.
• You can refer to loaded songs via the ID given when they were loaded OR by giving the filename of the song
• Lots of automatic error handling (which can be turned off if you want)
• the list goes on -- See the manual (included in the download) for more details.

Known Bugs

• The function bgm_SetLibDir() has been deprecated because it doesn't work correctly and there doesn't seem to be a way to fix it.
• The functions bgm_GetPos() and bgm_GetLen() don't work on non-streamed samples; they always return 4294967295. However, the functions work fine for streamed samples and modules.

Downloads

List of all available downloads for BGM

• BGM 2.0.x
• BGM 2.0.x plus examples
• BGM 2.0.x source code (just source, no binaries)

Older version(s):

• BGM 1.0a

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