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Controlling Music and Video in Python

I'm trying to write a karaoke program in python. Every karaoke software has basic functionality like seeking in the video as well as modulating the pitch of music by half steps. What are some modules that I can use to permit this functionality? I'm going to use wxPython to write the gui portion if that makes a difference! ...

Android launching music player using intent

Is it possible to open the music app from my app in android, or is it best to write a whole new music app inside of mine. I would rather use theirs since the user will already be comfortable with it. ...

JLayer reading out the duration of a song

Possible Duplicate: Read out Time/Length/Duration of an Mp3 song in Java Hey, does somebody know how to get the duration of a song using JLayer ? Cheers ...

Music Visualization

Hi, I am intrested in learning about Music Visualization. (eg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_visualization ) Does anyone have any books to recommend on the subject? (I know its not a technical question, but it seems like a good place to ask) Many thanks ...

How to do background music for my WPF-Application?

Hi, I have an WPF-Application with 3 different UserControls in the MainWindow and only one of these is visible at the time. It's like having 3 different pages and you able to switch from one page to another when you like it. First page is like a start-screen. Second is like the "general view". And the third page shows details. Switching...

WPF: Changing MediaElement source with ResourceDictionary

Hey, I want to use background music in my WPF Application. Like you can see here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3148965/how-to-do-background-music-for-my-wpf-application So I use a MediaElement. Now I want to change the source of it while running the Application. I'm already doing something similar with some background pictures....

Android get Genre of a song

I have been banging my head about this all day. How can I get a genre from an Audio Id? All I can find is that you have to call a whole new content call to get the genre then you need a genre id to find the genre of the song that you want. I wouldn't need to make the call if I had the genre id. Any ideas? EDIT: The only way I have b...

iPhone SDK - analyze/intercept music

Is there a way to read audio files from the iPhone music library, or intercept the music the iPhone plays? I was thinking of making an app which generates content from music, either in real time or beforehand (like for example AudioSurf). Is there a way to do that? ...

How to vibrate iPhone while playing music

I am trying to vibrate the iPhone using AudioServicesPlaySystemSound(kSystemSoundID_Vibrate) while playing iPod music with the MediaPlayer framework, but I can't get the vibrate to work while the music is playing. I can play a sound at the same time as the iPod music using the following code, but the vibrate doesn't seem to work. [music...

Can python open a mp3 file

Is it possible to open a mp3 file in python (possible using POPEN) and i dont mean to run it in the program i mean as a separate window in media player or whatever just for it to open it when i call the function and if so how. thanks a lot. ...

getting error while trying to play an mp3 in mplayer

iam trying to play a mp3 song through movieplayer in linux but iam getting these errors instead Totem could not play 'file:///root/Desktop/song.mp3'. you do not have the necessary plugins and need to install those. and then this - Internal GStreamer error: state change failed. Please file a bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug...

How to write chords with MIDI?

Hello! How do I write a chord, i.e. a NoteOn of seveal notes on each above the other at the same time line? What should be the message for this chord. ...

MIDI: Convert BPM to FPS delta time?

Hello! Given a BPM (beats per minute) MIDI delta time (leftmost bit off) with speed of 192: 0x00C0 I want to convert it to a FPS/TPM (frames per second / ticks per minute) delta time (leftmost bit on), but it should be the same (or the most accurate) speed value if you know what I mean. For more info about MIDI Delta Time please tak...

What's a good app to get started making sound effects for my app?

I need a few click and beep-type sound effects for my app I'm developing. Rather than scour Google for free wavs, I'd like to try to develop my own. Are there any (hopefully free) apps that might be tailored to something like this? Any insight is appreciated, Tim ...

MIDI Program Change event.

Please take a look at Midi Event Commands, where it's explained that some events like Program Change take only one parameter. My question is then what do you send along with this event's 2nd parameter's byte, is it 0x00? or you just entirely omit it from the event which doesn't really make sense? ...

Programming Musical Instrument Emulators?

I'm interested in, and trying to find information on, the topic of programming musical instrument emulators. As an example, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhCJq7EAJJA (Smule's Ocarina app for the iPhone). However, I'm not finding much information on this topic. Running with the ocarina app as an example, how are the individual notes...

PHP Real file type

I am building a website where the user can upload mp3 files. And, I want to check if the file is a mp3 file. What I need to know is if there is a php function that do that for me. I tried $_FILES['uploadedfile']['type'] But, I does not work like I want, because it returns the file type based on the extension (I tested it only on windo...

With the last.fm API, is there a way to get the top tracks for a time period with a supplied start and end date?

Is there anyway to use user.getTopTracks for a time period, with a start and end, as opposed to a time duration? I know you can send a period parameter such as 7day, 3month etc, which returns the top track for that period up until the present day, but is there anyway to get the top tracks like this: for the time period 1 Jan 07 - 31 Feb...

[Chuck] Reading ints from a file

Hi, I've this ChucK code: "examples/vento.txt" => string filename; FileIO fio; // open a file fio.open(filename, FileIO.READ); // ensure it's ok if(!fio.good()) { cherr <= "can't open file: " <= filename <= " for reading..." <= IO.newline(); me.exit(); } fio.readLine() => string velocity; fio.readLine() => string direction; ...

What is the best songs/musics to make you faster when you coding?

Duplicate: Music to listen to while coding Actually music is very important for me when i am coding. 2 Days ago i discovered this song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-64CaD8GXw and during it plays, i feel that i am coding faster. Do you have favorite musics that makes you faster (your ideas, fingers ...) ? PS: Please be positive a...