Minimal U-MYX 3.01

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Minimal U-MYX 3.01

#1 Post by mole973102 »

Padster wrote:
A newer version of the U-Myx Minimal application was released and the previous 'mixes' don't work with it. If you want to use version 3 then You do need to buy the new version. You can do more with version 3 (ability to insert and delete etc). There are some new mixes for version 3.


I've done that...
http://www.7digital.com/stores/productD ... sid=430651
(I would get this quick as any new version is likely to be better protected).

...and U-MYX crew have still left the 'export' button in, only the workaround is much more awkward...took me a good two hours to solve it...with no real knowledge of this stuff...
Those days of a CPC 6128 have come in handy...

http://www.bpsoft.com/
Go here and download Hex Workshop 4.23 and register it (otherwise I think it will work in demo mode).

Find
Type: Text String
Value: export audio
Find all instances = either
Direction = down

You will find one instance only that reads
Export Audio....disabled....
Change to
Export Audio....enabled.....
(You overwrite disabled with enabled and the left over 'd' character replace with an extra 00 on the left hand panel (not right for text input) so on the right hand side it becomes a '.')

You need to to do this procedure only in the minimal-pet-shop-boys.umx file supplied.

Also look for 'intrsumental' and hex edit this to 'instrumental' while you are at it! :)
(This error is only in the data file, so you might as well fix it).

Now when you load you will have an extra button and you can save as .wavs.
'Instrumental' is spelt correctly.

HOWEVER...

Load a downloaded file and it will disappear. This is because the program was previously told to not save an instruction in your file to allow the button (they've got cleverer). So now you need to look in the downloaded file and patch that also before you load it.

With the download patched you will see that when you load it the button now remains and you can export as a .wav file

Furthermore any files you make with minimal-pet-shop-boys.umx that is patched will save with the enabled switch in the file. So anyone downloading these versions will only need patch the minimal-pet-shop-boys.umx as the downloaded file will have automatically saved with the button enabled. Good eh?

Note that any .wav output is for your own use only!
You cannot distribute the .wav or .mp3 files due to copyright, nor can you sell them.
If they'd wanted that, the button would be enabled.
But for your own useage, make your own ringtone from a .wav or make your own CD, then this isn't going to be any financial implication to those good ol' boys.
Also please obtain the files from http://www.7digital.com/stores/productD ... sid=430651
(It may even count towards the chart...)

Apologises to U-MYX but I dislike being told what I can do.
Includes passports, smoking (not that I do), dvd region codes and downloading the Land of the Giants from US iTunes because they don't think me that being in the UK I should have rights to it. How ridiculous and you cannot get it on DVD as far as I know. I'm fed up with being told how to think and what I can say (political correctness; designed to make us readily obey other things) and whether I can risk my own health or not with salt etc.

By a government confusing what us humans would naturally do (ie behaviour) they cause a problem by making society confused. Once they've done that, they can now tell us how they will fix it. Which usually involves further surrender and worshipping!
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I was one of the people who tested this new version of U-MYX when Minimal was released. :P

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One of the crowd wrote:I was one of the people who tested this new version of U-MYX when Minimal was released. :P
Much better than the first version...
Making a quick extended mix before work.
What payment do you require to keep quiet?

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Hate to sound ignorant but i have done everything you have said but the export button doesn't appear for me.

I have even compared the file to the Depeche mode umyx that lets you export to see if i had made a mistake. i couldn't see one.

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popfreak wrote:Hate to sound ignorant but i have done everything you have said but the export button doesn't appear for me.

I have even compared the file to the Depeche mode umyx that lets you export to see if i had made a mistake. i couldn't see one.
Earlier U-MYX was slightly easier to fix. With 3.01 you need a . (00) after the 'enabled' ie 'enabled.' where .= hex 00 (an end code so you don't have a space after the word).

Have you used the left hand side to enter 00 in decimal as opposed to 00 in the right hand side for text (in the left it shows as hex 00 and in the right shows as text .)

If you don't enter the 00 as decimal code, the program won't be reading the word as 'enabled' but as 'enabledd', 'enabled ', 'enabled.' (a full-stop not an end code) or even 'enabled00' depending on the mistake.

I modified the minimal-pet-shop-boys.umx and any file I load in that hasn't been saved with the file containing 'enabled'. If you load an unmodified file that has been downloaded the button disappears. To make it comeback remove the downloaded file so the modified U-MYX software cannot find it. Then it comes back, or (I think) you can modify the download and then load it again.

The button isn't always obvious unless you maximise the screen area in top right hand corner (the square tab).
Basically you change 'minimal-pet-shop-boys.umx' and any downloaded file which shows 'disabled' in the code.

http://www.u-myx.com/Music/The-Pet-Shop ... tfile/1505
Minimal (The Molemix v2).

Get this file...
Load it and you'll probably get the button appear unless U-MYX no longer can find the file (ie you move it once loaded).

If you run it under a hex editor you will see that it has enabled in it but only one 00 code. This is because my U-MYX is patched so it saves files now with the button enabled for my files.

The download has 'enabled.' where . = 00 in Hex (because U-MYX created the file, not me). In the patched files there are two 00 00.

The patched files have 'enabled..' where ..= 00 00 in Hex. I added an extra 00 to stop the hex reading 20 00 which would be 'enabled .' and so the word would be read with a space. The U-MYX program only loads the hidden button if it reads as 'enabled'.
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Thanks. I have sussed out what was going wrong.

Where would we be without you.

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#7 Post by mole973102 »

popfreak wrote:Thanks. I have sussed out what was going wrong.

Where would we be without you.
I'm sure you'd get along very well.

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