MGS Audio desktop 1.4.0: layers, playlists, places and smart playlists
MGS Audio desktop 1.4.0: a real player
A new audio engine built into the app: loops join without a gap or a click, the way a game would play them. Ambiences and tracks titled "Loop" start looping by themselves (paid Patreon tiers).
Layers: up to 8 ambiences at once under the music, each with its own volume and loop, fading in and out. A master volume and "Stop all" for the whole scene. Two songs never play together: a new one takes the place of the last.
Level: music and ambiences play at one loudness, so a quiet track no longer gets lost after a loud one. On by default, one click to hear every track as mastered.
Playlists (Patreon)
Playlists play one track after another, without a gap or crossfaded, repeated or shuffled. Drag to reorder, or onto another playlist to copy.
Ambience mixes start all their ambiences at once, each at its own volume: the hearth, the crowd and the rain of a tavern in one click.
Right-click any track to add it to any playlist. A Layer button on every track of a playlist adds it to what already plays.
Smart playlists: "Save as smart playlist" keeps the Library's filters and search, and every track you own that matches joins it, new releases included.
32 ready-made playlists of music: by genre (Exploration, Battle, Dungeon Crawl, Tavern Night…), by setting (Sci-Fi Odyssey, Steampunk, Eastern Realms, Call of Cthulhu…) and by theme (Sea & Sails, Winter & the North, Royal Court, Haunted, Mourning & Farewells, Boss & Showdown, Thieves & Stealth…). Each shows what you own; add one to your playlists to rename it or change how it plays.
Your own audio: add folders of your own files and play them beside the MGS library, in layers, playlists and mixes. They are only ever read.
Places (Patreon)
Hear the scene somewhere: a cave, a cathedral, a small room, behind a door, underwater, far away, on a gramophone, in a canyon, in a dream. One slider for how much.
For the whole scene from the player, or for each ambience on its own: the river far away, the fire close by. An ambience mix remembers each one's place.
In every app
"Skip to content", and every app works from the keyboard: tabs, lists, cards, sortable columns, dropdowns and the language switcher. The keyboard focus shows, a mouse click does not.
Notifications are read by screen readers and wait while the pointer or the focus is on them.
The "i" bubbles open at the bottom of a phone's screen, with a close button.
Small text is a little larger.
On the MGS Audio website, the media keys, a headset's buttons and the lock screen drive the player, and the arrow keys move along its waveform.
Passage, Bearer, Covenant and Scriptorium: every paper has a plain transcription, shown on demand and read by screen readers. The PDFs carry it too, so their text can be searched and copied.