This is a music management tool for tabletop role-playing games.
Designed for use with the foobar2000 media player due to the fade in/out functionality and nice features.
Basically you just play your playlists for the game situations via hotkeys. Like press B for Battle music, press T for Tavern and so on. The player stays hidden and don't bother your small laptop screen. Music can be stored as audio files or youtube-links. Also the fade in/out foobars function works like a charm.
For Windows use only.
- Download DungeonDJ with foobar included, unzip it
- Put your music in the
/musicsubfolders and name that folders whatever you like. The first letter of the name of each folder stands for a key that you need to press to play music from that folder. Examples included. - Run
play.exe, don't mind Windows Defender. It dislikes autohotkeys scripts. - Press
Altand the chosen Key for music
If you want to install and setup foobar on your own
- Download DungeonDJ without foobar, unzip it
- Download foobar2000
- Install foobar to
DungeonDJ/foobar2000folder or specify path to .exe in theconfig.inifile. - Put your music in the
/musicsubfolders and name that folders whatever you like. The first letter of the name of each folder stands for a key that you need to press to play music from that folder. Examples included. - Run
play.exe, don't mind Windows Defender. It dislikes autohotkeys scripts. - Press
Altand the chosen Key for music - Optional. Install foobar youtube-component if you want to add music from the Youtube videos.
- Optional. Check out recommended foobar settings for the best experience.
Alt + 1 → play/pause
Alt + 2 → play next track in the current playlist
Alt + 3 → show/hide player
Alt + 4 → show a cheat sheet with keys and music folders
Alt + Y → show youtube video search (only if you downloaded foobar with DungeonDJ. Otherwise, you need to enable this hotkey in settings)
Note If you downloaded foobar with DungeonDJ — this settings already apllied.
- File → Preferences → Playback → Output → Fading → check «Enable smooth seeking...» & set «Manual track change» slider to whatever your like, 4000ms recommended. That makes music changes like in videogames, so nice and smooth 🤙
- File → Preferences → Display → Default User Interface → Background and Notifications → turn on «Minimize hides, close exits» if you want to minimize foobar
- File → Preferences → Shell Integration → turn off «Bring to front when adding new files» if you want foobar to stay hidden during Dungeons track changes
- Playback → Order → set «Random» if you want to run music from folder in random order
- File → Preferences → Keyboard Shortcuts → Add new → set hotkey for View/Youtube Source/Search on Site action if you want to fast access to this brilliant function
foobar is such a great thing due to possibility of mixing local files and youtube videos in one playlist. Give it a try!
- Download component. For me version
foo_youtube_3.9_beta2works fine. - Open foobar → File → Preferences → Components → Install → dowloaded file.
Now you go View → Youtube Source → Search on Site → type something like «ambient music» → click it to start music with smooth fade in effect!
But even on top of that you may save youtube video link as a file!
Just right click on video → foobar2000 → File Operations → Copy to → choose your DungeonDJ music subfolder. Name track as you want but you need to add .foo_youtube extension in the end.
Screenshots
- You may turn off the now-playing notifications in the config.ini file.
- Change language between en or ru. Impact only notifications for now 😉
- Change key for the combination if you don't like
Alt. Use ahk codes
Actually I made it for my custom keyboard so you may also like this idea. With some VIA or Vial you can become the real Dungeon DJ. Personally, I use DOIO KB16-01:
These people are real titans, on whose shoulders I modestly stand.
foobar2000 developers
Autohotkey developers
Also authors of great Pleasant Notify library