OpenSong Portable 1.3b2 Development Test 2

I tried to download earlier, but RapidShare was ticking me off with its stupid 2 minute delay and lame cat captchas.

It's lookin' good. Here's some changes you can make that I caught.

*Your appicon.ico should have 48, 32, and 16 pixel sizes in both 32 and 8 bit format. You can use IcoFX if icons isn't a strong point.
*Compress App\OpenSong with the App Compactor to save some space.
*Rename Other\OpenSong to Other\Source.
*Add AppSource.txt, License.txt, and Readme.txt from another app's source directory, modifying the AppSource.txt and Readme.txt appropriately.
*Check out how John Bentley did the Xenon splash without a window, and how he uses AppNamePortable.ini to allow you to change the app executable and turn off the splash.
*Remove Other\Source\OpenSong.ini and have it look for the appicon.ico under AppInfo when compiling.
*Add the part of the GPL and your copyright to the top of the OpenSongPortable.au3 file like in the .nsi files for other apps though I see you already have the Author listed there.
*Do you need 'Delete '$INSTDIR\Help.chm'' in the PRE-INSTALL code of the installer, or was that forgotten from the previous app the installer was used with?
*Use the PortableApps.comInstaller.nsi from another app, looks like yours may be outdated of from a multilingual app, perhaps the updater.
*Add and modify a help.html from another application. This also requires Other\Help.
*I don't think the Backgrounds directory is needed under Data if there's a way to avoid it.
*What is someone used subst on their drive to make it a: or b:, would problems arise? That may also cause issues if this app works in WINE on Linux. Although it may not, I'm not sure.
*Also, I guess the Songs directory could go under 'Data', but I'm not sure it's the best idea. It's not really Data, though users may want to have it backed up. Up to you I guess.
*I end up with the same folders under Data\, as well as Data\Settings\Dir1.dat\, is that intentional?
*Remove App\DefaultData\ if it's not used.
*Remove the uninstall .exe, .dat, and .ico under App\OpenSong.

Edit: I have an empty OpenSong folder under my Application Data folder. So just have it removed if empty.

That's it for now. Their may be other enhancements that could be used later. Nice work on this!

But what about the opensong import utility. It could be useful as a separate download.

if you'd like, I'd be happy to provide a song for inclusion in the program (if that's what you were asking for earlier).

Hi,
I downloaded and installed the app, but as soon as I try to run it, I get an error like this:

Unknown exception, error is 'Not a plist file':

Stacktrace:
App.LoadPreferences%%o
App.Event_Open%%o
REALbasic._RuntimeRegisterAppObject%%o
_NewAppInstance
_Main
% main

Incidentally, I have installed the regular (PC) version of OpenSong on my USB drive and it works fine. I used the PortableApps compactor to compact it (suggested by one of the posts above) and can now use it anywhere.

Hope things are going well with this app. there is so much to do and not enough people to do them.

when is this app going to be updated. i think it is a good app and would like to have an updated version. with all the suggestions here incorperated.

There was an version for 1.62 that was made portable. But since they revamped their site i has been removed. I have it at http://srhasit.hrwdp-ihlrp.com/file/OpenSong_1.6.2.0_English.paf.exe

New version is out. It offers a "portable installation" during istall process.

http://www.opensong.org/pages/downloads.html

OpenSong 2.1.2 Released