i was messing around with visual studio the past few days and remembered that i wrote a Nightwave Plaza client for Windows. i opened it up to get some inspiration and ended up fixing it to work in the year of luigi 2023 (it turns out that basically all the apis had changed since i last worked on it in 2019)
i also kind of just never announced it or anything, so i'm announcing it now. (note: i'm afraid people might look at this and think it's a big joke or something, but this is actual software that i legit wrote and you can download and use. it is open source and fully Windows native, written in C# using the BASS audio library and the Windows Presentation Foundation class of window controls)
announcing Nightwave.NET for Workgroups!
Nightwave.NET for Workgroups is a groundbreaking new form of software which we at Thistle Wuffworks, plc. call a Digital Tuner™. Using its advanced web technology, you can tune into Nightwave Radio whenever you like, no need for external hardware such as an Antenna.
Included at no extra charge is our patent-pending Digital Read-Out, which performs advanced transmission processing and analysis in order to provide you with productivity-enhancing features, including:
- Displaying the title, artist and album for the audio currently streaming through the Digital Tuner™'s Advanced Data Buffer & Sound Processing Pipeline
- Performing parallel informatic queries in order to receive, decode and display a graphical representation of the song being played. We call this innovation Album Art©
- Socially-enabled maffematical algorithms to display vital information, from the elapsed and remaining time in the current song, to how many other Nightwave Radio listeners like the song they currently hear!
- Military-grade, government-assured, kid-tested and mother-approved cryptographic subroutines enable Nightwave.NET for Workgroups to interface with the Microsoft Windows® Enterprise Credential Store in order to securely record your login information for Nightwave Plaza, enabling unparalleled social interaction: liking the currently playing song, adding it to your favourites, or un-liking it!
- Unparalleled compatibility with your existing workflows with our innovative Above All™ mode, which allows Nightwave.NET for Workgroups to "float" above your other software. Always visible and accessible, but not in the way of your other duties.
- Cooperative Processing Routines enable us to provide an indicator on your Video Display Unit of the loudness of the audio coming out of each of our two Stereo Audio Channels. You may recognise this feature from certain real-world tuners as a "VU Meter"
We believe in the future of computing as an accessible platform for synergising your auditory and visual cortexes with other stimuli. As such, we have made the bold and pioneering decision to release Nightwave.NET for Workgroups and its supporting libraries and other datum in the form of what we have termed "open-source software" (patent-pending). We believe this will enable rapid future growth and legitimate distribution of our product with astounding ease.
Interested parties can download our revolutionary new Digital Tuner™ software by clicking HERE, and can access our "Open-Source" forge repository by clicking on this Hyper-Link.