Downloads

This page doesn't really have anything directly to do with the Audiography services per se.

So what is this page?

You will find links to small, useful software applications (applets) I've developed and written for free (non-commercial!) use by anyone who finds these little applets helpful.

It's my way of helping to pay back (in a very small and insignificant way) the enormous burden of debt for the hundreds of fellow electronics and software enthusiasts who have helped me get my stuff working. While I'll always say thanks on a forum, that's not really saying enough. So if you can use these programs, and they help you sort out some problems without having to log in to a forum, then that's payback enough.

What do I need to run them?

Nearly all of these will run on just about any version of windows (including (with the correct drivers and libraries) Windows 3.11 and Windows for Workgroups, Win95, Win98, Windows NT 3.51, NT 4.0, Win2000, and maybe ME).

Without additional downloads, they will all run fine on most recent versions of Windows : XP (Home, Pro, and Pro x64 - which is what they're developed on).

These are fully windows-compliant binary applications - so you don't need java, visual basic, C, CPP, C#, .NET, or any other kind of interpreter or library. Windows alone is perfectly fine!

While all the software listed below is designed to be run from a folder on your hard disk, both can be run without extracting them first. But HEFF uses a single text file to maintain a historical list of the hex files you've used, and the Music List program requires a place to put it's INI file (in the same folder as the executable). Both will create default files if desired.

You do NOT need to have an installer package to install them, nor do they modify windows, the registry, or anything else. Just unzip 'em to a directory where you want to run them from, and double-click them to start. That's it!

How much are they?

There is no fee or registration required for download. However, if you do find them useful, I'd really appreciate hearing back from you! Contact details are at the bottom of the page.

What if I have a feature to suggest?

You can offer suggestions, feature ideas, and comments to me via any of the email addresses below. I can't guarantee to implement all suggestions, but if you have a really useful idea, I'll be happy to look into it.

Rude, obnoxious, or just bad-mannered comments or messages will be ignored. If you don't have anything positive to offer, go and film yourself and put it on Utube or something, but please don't mistake me for someone who gives a rat's about your miserable life.

What if I have a brilliant software idea?

Then (assuming you don't have the skills or knowledge, and further assuming that I do... which may be an invalid assumption :) then I'll be happy to discuss a software development idea with you.

Due to workload and time constraints (and while I know almost everything about electronics, computers, software, and hardware, apart from audio and video I don't always know all the fine details about processes or other tools without learning them first) I may not be able to help much - but I won't just leave you in the lurch!

The Software

Software Title	Description	Revision	Link	Size
HEFF	HEFF (HEx File Formatter) is a simple parser to identify problems with Intel HEX files. HEFF will examine a .HEX file and interpret and display each line so you can CLEARLY see the load address (including the high-word record modifiers) and data for the line. So you don't have to count characters and offsets with a pencil and printout. It might save your eyesight (it's saved my sanity!) It should work with non-Intel HEX32 files (8- and 16-bit formats), but it hasn't been tested on these. While it DOES NOT disassemble or reverse-compile the hex data, it does verify every byte, reformat it and display it as ASCII - which means it will work with ANY kind of hex code, including Microchip PIC, ATMEL, Zilog, Freescale, and almost any other processor or compiler that supports standard Intel Hex format. No other hex parser I'm aware of does anything like this. It ain't really that smart, but it beats counting hex ASCII characters and colons! It will identify any file with hex-formatted data in it, not just intel hex files, but the results will depend heavily on how much non-hex data is found in the file. Enjoy.	1.1.3 Build 69 (really, truly!)		274k ZIP
Music Lister	Music List takes individual sets of audio files and creates standard M3U and/or CUE sheets from the list of files. It also converts between CUE files and M3U files (and vice-versa). Although it doesn't support ALL the latest CUE features and M3U commands, it should help getting your playlist running on a new music system. This does take some configuring, as it also "tags" the M3U and CUE files AUTOMATICALLY from the supplied filenames. (No, it doesn't take tag information from within the files, I don't use internal tags in any of my music collection and there are thousands of other bits of software that will do that better than I ever could). The filename format can be specified by you, and the tool provides a configuration dialog to help you get started. Some filename patterns probably won't work (iTunes is a great butcherer of software titles, it can kill an entire collection by renaming every track to "track 0x .m4a, losing all your artist, album, lyrics, and track info). But at least you can edit each track and title before converting them to the playlist format! Latest revision notes for Build 115 : - MFL now has the ability to quickly build both an M3U and a CUE from the file list with just one button click. You can also now turn off the file save confirmation dialogs if they're annoying (and let's face it, they were). - It has also had some minor bugs fixed in the filename persistence (some combinations weren't being saved correctly to the INI file, and then weren't being restored as previous defaults).	1.49 Build 1115		304k

Contact Information

We're available all day, every day, including weekends and public holidays. Because we do try to provide personalised service to everyone, we may be unable to respond immediately, from time to time, so please bear with us - we will respond as soon as possible! In most cases, we will contact you on the same business day, but if you can leave an after-hours contact number or email, we'll be happy to respond at any time that suits you.

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