USF plugin for Nintendo 64 music

[saschaklick]

After 7 years of inactivity I brought an old USF plugin into the Audacious 4.x world. I found that my old binaries that I dragged around from 2018 in my home directory still worked but compiling the plugin against 4.x Audacious failed to give working results. Since I have seen some suggestions that date back to early 4.x times that the plugin failed for most who tried to compile it from source, I decided to give it a whirl and fix it myself.

https://github.com/saschaklick/audacious-usf-plugin

It requires some outdated libraries such as GTK2 but it works on Ubuntu 24.04 and Audacious 4.3.2

The trick to fixing it was just to set the emulation to interpreted from recompiled, which 2025 CPUs should be able to handle.

I am dragging around an archive of ripped game music since the early 2000s and having it still play nicely in lightweight Audacious keeps me coming back.

[Wedge009]

I'll echo what I wrote in your commit that added this support: thank you so much for this. I only discovered this new development yesterday after effectively resigning myself to no USF support.

I had long since given up on native USF playback in Linux (admittedly the complexities of N64 audio emulation compared with other console formats seems to be quite a hurdle), but just today on a whim I had another look at this plug-in and was surprised to see recent activity on it. I gave your fork a try and was pleasantly surprised to find it working. None of the USF files I have seemed to have any trouble as you describe here. Thanks so much for restoring this functionality. Now that just leaves GSFs (GBA) as the last format for which I have no native playback...

[saschaklick]

Sorry for the late reply. I very much appreciate the feedback. I just keep rolling with the Ubuntu LTE releases which means I'll be checking back if the USF plugin still works on the current Audacious version provided by the LTE release around autumn each year of each 2-year release, when the distribution update from LTE to LTE becomes available.

[Wedge009]

No worries, just glad you saw it. I'm also on Ubuntu LTS, next one due soon. Also curious that you say 'autumn' - you must be in the same hemisphere as I am, which is not where most people seem to be.

[saschaklick]

To clear up any confusion, I expect the dist update from 24.04 to 26.04 be available around September/October, a good 5 - 6 month after the April release as per usual. That's when I switch.

[Wedge009]

Fair enough. I understand the update itself is often later than the stand-alone release.