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Just added a "Shuffle Play" button to the Browse view. It will shuffle play everything in the current directory including subdirectories. There's no way to view the shuffled context, but that could change.

Other little things:
- added more cover art, now with fallback behavior
- cleaned up/added new SoundFonts
- search now matches inside camelcase words, i.e. query "endo" will match "TristEndo"

Yea, it is just homemade CSS, but owes a lot to ViLeR at int10h for the awesome VGA font. https://int10h.org/blog/categories/fonts/

That's a great idea...I have been meaning to implement a shuffle button somehow, and wondering how exactly to do it. The player already has a notion of context that could be shuffled easily; but it's limited to playing through the current directory wherever you initiate playback. Doing it recursive is the tricky part, because the context could easily be 20,000 songs (like 4 MB of text data). I'll think about it...

Thanks, yeah, the module playback is handled by libxmp, which is really excellent and actively maintained for years by Claudio Matsuoka. I have only slightly modified it to handle speed control.

Thanks for the report... I'll check into it!

So i'm wondering, is this site all about active artists and live performance?
In that case, sure, it could be out of fashion from time to time.

But I think of chiptune - primitive waveforms and limited sound channels - more as an instrument, like piano or guitar, than a genre.  A strange instrument that relatively few have discovered, but one that takes skill to master.

In that way, I think chip music has about as much danger of "dying" as a harmonica.

Guys, say what you will about the community surrounding 8bc or certain individuals there, but make no mistake, the disappearance of the site - if it's really permanent - is an utter loss, a massive blow.

I'm shocked at how ambivalent you dudes are about the site going down. The music is a heart-stopping loss; for me personally, it's the massive list of favorites that I accrued over the years that had the real value. Down with the ship. Cool songs that I never bothered to download, now lost to the vapors of time.  This "Jose" character is starting to take on the air of a cocaine drug lord who fled to Mexico, never to be seen or heard from again.  Is he in trouble with the law? Seriously.  Incarceration is the only reasonable explanation.

I want to know the back story.  This kind of thing is not supposed to happen. It was a thriving community. They had a good thing going. The way the site worked was a pretty good formula.  There was an incentive to post new stuff.  So if I go back to archive.org, will I be able to find my favorites list, against all odds, and reconstruct all the cool music I found there from piece-meal downloads, trekking to outer reaches of the internet, finally, hopelessly, never completing the list?  A saga of pathetic management, a lesson of what can happen to websites run by teenagers.

Damn shame.

What I'm wondering is, why a 404 error? Isn't there anyone in control of 8bc who has the sense to put up a technical difficulties note or something?
Don't lock this thread. Thanks