music

Play more than one song in a web page

I'm working on my HTML and Javascript project and I wanted to add music for the website.. Is there any way I can put more than one song in the code to be played? And is there anyway that the song will continue when openning the next page? ...

Looping music with intro in XNA using SoundEffect

I have two sound files: Sound A is an 18 second intro designed to be played once Sound B is a 1 minute looping track I'd like to play Sound A once, then once Sound A is done, immediately play Sound B and keep looping Sound B until I tell it to stop. This is supposed to be looping town music in an RPG. I've tried doing this in code u...

How to play music on site preventing easy direct file download

I'm starting a blog with a hosted wordpress instance and i would like to be able to stream music using a flash player on some posts. The problem is that every player i find uses a simple param to get the file url which makes it very easy for someone to find that url and just download the file. I know that it's probably impossible to pr...

Comparison of music data

Hey I am looking for theory, algorithms and similar for how to compare music. More specifically, I am looking into how to dupecheck music tracks that have different bitrates or perhaps slightly different variations (radio vs album version), but otherwise sound the same. Use cases for this include services such as Grooveshark, Youtube, ...

Goldwave Autotrim over Command Prompt

Hi, I have 1 minute wav file recordings. To check whether there is no voice present in the file, I am using Goldwave to trim the silence which lefts the file size very small in few Kbs. This tells me that there is no sound in most part of the file. But I am not able to do this via Command prompt using the Command line utility, Does Go...

Generate musical instrument sounds algorithmically

Is it possible to generate a musical instrument's sounds using only algorithms? or can it only be done via pre-recorded sound samples? ...

Music notation UI VCL Component. Does it exist?

I'd like to write a simple application that needs to display notes on a score (musical notes on a music staff). It is not for writing a music notation software, it is just for showing some notes on the staff, in readonly mode. I could of course have an image as background with an empty staff and paint the notes... But of course this take...

Python: avoiding fraction simplification

Hi all, I'm working on a music app' in Python and would like to use the fractions module to handle time signatures amongst other things. My problem is that fractions get simplified, i.e.: >>> from fractions import Fraction >>> x = Fraction(4, 4) >>> x Fraction(1, 1) However, it is important from a musical point of view that 4/4 stays...

Automatic music rating based on listening habits

I've created a Winamp-like music player in Delphi. Not so complex, of course. Just a simple one. But now I would like to add a more complex feature: Songs in the library should be automatically rated based on the user's listening habits. This means: The application should "understand" if the user likes a song or not. And not only wheth...

Building a simple mp3 music player

It is possible for me to write a simple mp3 music player? If yes, how should I go about building it? Are there any online resources that can help? ...

Robust algorithm for chromatic instrument tuner?

Who knows the most robust algorithm for a chromatic instrument tuner? I am trying to write an instrument tuner. I have tried the following two algorithms: FFT to create a welch periodogram and then detect the peak frequency A simple autocorrelation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocorrelation) I encountered the following basic prob...

Music in site background

Can we insert a background music that continue playing even surfing in site? (an acerbic customer wants this- this is a short music belongs to customer) Thanks ...

XSPF Web Music Player and restarting music in surfing

I asked a question in this link; Streaming music background function music(){ $txt = '<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://***.com/slim.swf?&amp;autoplay=true&amp;repeat=true&amp;shuffle=true&amp;song_url=http: //***.com/music.mp3&" width="200" height="20"> <param name="movie" value="http://***.com/sl...

Extracting note onset from Polyphonic MIDI using jMusic API

Hi May I know whether it's possible to extract note onset and other musical details (e.g. pitch, note duration) form polyphonic MIDI(i.e. either multiples notes played from treble and bass voices, or chords) using the jMusic API? It has a method to extract note onset - but it returns zero each time for a given note. However extracting...

Introduction to midi programming

So I have a little (musical) keyboard that has USB midi interface. I know you can program to this (many programs accept input from the midi device via USB interface) but where do you begin to program a midi device? Ideally I'm looking for a platform-independent api, through Python or something. ...

Library for matching next song by mood

Hi, Are there any librarys for mood matching a song. i.e. some algorithm to finger print every song and shuffle the list by my mood(the current playing file(s))? Cheers, Mark ...

Purchase music from iTunes store without leaving app?

Hi all, Is anyone aware of a standard way of allowing a user to purchase music from the app store without leaving the app? For instance, if a band has an album for sale on iTunes and then releases an iPhone game featuring the band members, is there a "standard way" to allow the user to buy songs without leaving the app? From what I c...

Making the sound for a Flash game.

Hu guys, I'm developing a Flash game, and I'm interested in knowing what would be the process of making sounds. I want to make my own sounds, if possible, and not to download some premade standard (and possibly lawsuitable if they are not "totally free") sounds from the web. So.. I've read that a synthesizer could be useful.. but, I re...

Joining mp3 files without delay at the end of each piece

I am writing a program which needs to join some guitar chords (in mp3 format), but without having that end of sound feeling for each part of it.. Using cat or mp3wrap still gives that kind of feeling... Basically I don't know how to come up with the idea. For example, should i open each file as stream and delete some bytes at the end, t...

Php grab file information on upload

Is it possible to write an upload script in php that takes the file information(for example... a music file has the artist, album ect ect within the file information) and writes it into a database? If so how would i go abouts doing so... ...