Feature that lets you play a mp3 at the same time as your song to help copy notes

.vs/VSWorkspaceState.json

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+  "ExpandedNodes": [
+    ""
+  ],
+  "SelectedNode": "\\H:\\GameMaker2Projects",
+  "PreviewInSolutionExplorer": false
+}

scripts/control_draw/control_draw.gml

@@ -428,6 +428,28 @@ function control_draw() {
 		    }
 		}
 	}
+
+
+	//FollowAlong music control
+	if(variable_global_exists("followalongPlayingSound")&&!is_undefined("followalongPlayingSound")){
+		if(!variable_global_exists("followalongPaused")) global.followalongPaused = 0
+		if(!variable_global_exists("followalongPlayingSound")) global.followalongPlayingSound = undefined
+		if(playing = 1 && global.followalongPaused = 0){
+			if(is_undefined(global.followalongPlayingSound)){
+				global.followalongPlayingSound = audio_play_sound(global.followalongSound,10,false)
+				audio_sound_set_track_position(global.followalongPlayingSound, marker_pos/tempo);
+			}
+		}else{
+			if(!is_undefined(global.followalongPlayingSound)){
+				audio_stop_sound(global.followalongPlayingSound);
+				global.followalongPlayingSound = undefined;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+
+
+
 	if (window = w_dragselection) {
 	    selection_x = starta + floor((mouse_x - (x1 + 2)) / 32) - select_pressa
 	    selection_y = startb + floor((mouse_y - (y1 + 34)) / 32) - select_pressb
@@ -700,6 +722,12 @@ function control_draw() {
 	        marker_prevpos = 0
 	    }
 		if (keyboard_check_pressed(vk_space)) toggle_playing(totalcols) timestoloop = real(loopmax)
+
+		//followalong keybind
+		if (keyboard_check(vk_shift) && !keyboard_check_pressed(ord("`"))) { 
+			pause_followalong()
+		}
+
 	    if (keyboard_check_pressed(vk_f1)) {
 	        if (language != 1) open_url("http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7EA4F0D271DA6E86")
 			else open_url("https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Mx411a76p")
@@ -942,6 +970,8 @@ function control_draw() {
 			timestoloop --
 			starta = loopstart
 			marker_pos = starta
+
+
 			metronome_played = -1
 			sb_val[scrollbarh] = starta
 			if loopmax != 0 {
@@ -950,6 +980,17 @@ function control_draw() {
 					timestoloop = real(loopmax)
 				}
 			} 
+
+			if(variable_global_exists("followalongPlayingSound")&&!is_undefined("followalongPlayingSound")){
+				if(!variable_global_exists("followalongPaused")) global.followalongPaused = 0
+				if(!variable_global_exists("followalongPlayingSound")) global.followalongPlayingSound = undefined
+				if(playing = 1 && global.followalongPaused=0){
+					if(!is_undefined(global.followalongPlayingSound)){
+						audio_sound_set_track_position(global.followalongPlayingSound, marker_pos/tempo);
+					}
+				}
+			}
+
 		}
 	    if (marker_pos > enda + totalcols) {
 	        marker_pos = enda + totalcols
@@ -1466,6 +1507,33 @@ function control_draw() {
 	if (draw_tab("Help")) {
 	    show_menu_ext("help", 109 - 30 * isplayer, 19, icon(icons.HELP) + "Tutorial videos|\\|Part 1: Composing note block music|Part 2: Opening MIDI files|Part 3: Importing songs into Minecraft|Part 4: Editing songs made in Minecraft     |-|F1$View all|/|-|" + icon(icons.INTERNET) + "Website...|GitHub...|Discord server...|Report a bug...|-|Changelist...|About...")
 	}
+
+	if (draw_tab("FollowAlong")) {
+		//magic code that seems important
+	    str = ""
+	    customstr = ""
+		insmenu = 3
+	    for (a = 0; a < ds_list_size(instrument_list); a++) {
+	        var ins = instrument_list[| a];
+	        if (ins.user)
+	            customstr += check(instrument = ins) + clean(ins.name) + "|"
+	        else{
+				if(a < 9){
+					 str += check(instrument = ins) + "Ctrl+" + string((a + 1) % 10) + "$" + clean(ins.name) + "|"
+				}else{
+				  str += check(instrument = ins) + "      Ctrl+Shift+" + string((a + 2) % 10) + "$" + clean(ins.name) + "|"
+				}
+			}
+			if (a % 25 == 0 && a > 1 && a < ds_list_size(instrument_list) - 1) {
+				customstr += "-|More...|\\|"
+				insmenu++
+			}
+	    }
+		//end magic
+
+		//menu
+	    show_menu_ext("followalong", 149 - 30 * isplayer, 19, icon(icons.OPEN) + "Open mp3/ogg/wav|"+icon(icons.PLAY)+"Shift+`$Pause playback"/* + "Download youtube video as mp3"*/)
+	}
 	} else {
 	if (draw_tab("文件")) {
 	    str = ""

scripts/load_followalong_song/load_followalong_song.gml

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+function load_followalong_song() {
+	// load_song(fn [, backup])
+	var fn, file_ext, f, str
+	fn = argument[0]
+	if (fn = "") {
+	    fn = string(get_open_filename_ext("Mp3 Files (*.mp3)|*.mp3|Wav Files (*.wav)|*.wav|Ogg Files (*.ogg)|*.ogg", "", songfolder, condstr(language != 1, "Load song", "打开歌曲")))
+	}
+	if (fn = "" || !file_exists_lib(fn)) return 0
+
+	file_ext = filename_ext(fn)
+	if (file_ext = ".mp3" || file_ext = ".wav" || file_ext = ".ogg") {
+		var ret = audio_file_decode(fn, temp_file);
+		if (ret < 0) {
+		    if (language != 1) message("Couldn't load the file " + fn + "! Error: " + string(ret), "Error")
+		    else message("找不到文件" + fn + "！错误代码：" + string(ret), "错误")
+		    return 0
+		}
+
+		log("buffer_load")
+		sound_buffer_temp = buffer_load(temp_file)
+		sound_buffer = buffer_create(buffer_get_size(sound_buffer_temp), buffer_fixed, 2)
+		buffer_copy(sound_buffer_temp, 0, buffer_get_size(sound_buffer_temp), sound_buffer, 0)
+		global.followalongSound = audio_create_buffer_sound(sound_buffer, buffer_s16, 44100, 0, buffer_get_size(sound_buffer), audio_stereo)
+		buffer_delete(sound_buffer_temp)
+		//audio_play_sound(followalongSound, 1, false);
+
+
+	//	file = file_bin_open(fn,0);
+	//    size = file_bin_size(file);
+	//	audio_buff = buffer_create(size, buffer_u8, 1);
+
+	//    for(var i = 0; i < size; i++;)
+	//    {
+	//        buffer_write(audio_buff, buffer_u8, file_bin_read_byte(file));
+	//    }
+	//    file_bin_close(file);
+
+	//    audio = audio_create_buffer_sound(audio_buff, buffer_u8, 44100, 0, size, audio_mono);
+	//    audio_play_sound(audio, 1, true);
+
+
+
+
+		//file = file_bin_open(fn,0);
+	    //var size = file_bin_size(file);
+	    //var gameTransfer = buffer_create(1024, buffer_u8, 1);
+	    //for(var i=0;i<size;i+=1;){
+	    //    buffer_write(gameTransfer,buffer_u8,file_bin_read_byte(file));
+	    //}
+	    //result = audio_create_buffer_sound(gameTransfer,buffer_u8,44100,0,size,audio_stereo);
+		//show_debug_message(size);
+		//audio_play_sound(result, 10, false);
+
+	    //file_bin_close(file)
+	    return 1
+	}
+	return 0
+}

scripts/menu_click/menu_click.gml

@@ -196,6 +196,29 @@ function menu_click(argument0) {
 	        if (sel = 11) window = w_about
 	        break
 	    }
+	    case "followalong": {
+	        //if (sel = 0) load_followalong_song("")
+	        if (sel = 0) load_followalong_song("")
+	        if (sel = 1) pause_followalong()
+
+			/*if (language != 1) {
+	        if (sel = 2) open_url("https://yt5s.com/en61/youtube-to-mp3")
+
+			temp solution
+			i would like to have it download the file and start it inside nbs but somethin something laws
+			and it seems to not be exactly easy to implement
+			(maybe run https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl somehow)
+
+			} else {
+	        if (sel = 2) open_url("")
+
+			smth similiar here for bilibili i guess?
+			if they upload songs there
+
+			}*/
+
+	        break
+	    }
 	    case "section": {
 	        if (sel = 0) {
 	            section_exists = 0

scripts/pause_followalong/pause_followalong.gml

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+function pause_followalong(){
+	if(!variable_global_exists("followalongPaused")) global.followalongPaused = 0
+	global.followalongPaused = !global.followalongPaused
+
+	if(global.followalongPaused=1){
+		toggle_followalong(0,0)
+	}else{
+
+	}
+}

scripts/toggle_followalong/toggle_followalong.gml

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+function toggle_followalong(){
+	if(!variable_global_exists("followalongPaused")) global.followalongPaused = 0
+
+	if(variable_global_exists("followalongSound")){
+		if(global.followalongPaused=0){
+			var start = argument[0]
+			var starttime = argument[1]
+			if(!variable_global_exists("followalongPlayingSound")) global.followalongPlayingSound = undefined
+			if(!is_undefined(global.followalongPlayingSound)){
+				audio_stop_sound(global.followalongPlayingSound);
+				global.followalongPlayingSound = undefined;
+			}
+			if(start = 1){
+				global.followalongPlayingSound = audio_play_sound(global.followalongSound,10,false)
+				audio_sound_set_track_position(global.followalongPlayingSound, starttime);
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}

scripts/toggle_playing/toggle_playing.gml

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ function toggle_playing(argument0) {
 	// toggle_playing(cols)
 	var xx, a, b, c, d, e;
 	playing=!playing
+	toggle_followalong(playing,marker_pos/tempo)
 	if (playing = 1) {
 	    if (marker_pos = enda + argument0) marker_pos = 0
 	    if (marker_start && section_exists) marker_pos = section_start
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ function toggle_playing(argument0) {
 	                        if (song_ins[xx, b].loaded) play_sound(song_ins[xx, b], song_key[xx, b], c , d, e)
 	                        if (song_ins[xx, b].press) key_played[song_key[xx, b]] = current_time
 	                        song_played[xx, b] = current_time
+
 	                    }
 	                }
 	            }