music

Music preview API?

Does anyone know of of a music API that let's you play maybe 30 second previews of songs? I know Amazon has a flash widget, but I was wondering if there are other options for integrating this into a music site. I know last.fm and musicbrainz have some awesome APIs, but none of them do music previews. ...

What type of database would be good to hold mp3 files

I'm doing a project that requires me to manipulate pieces of music. What type of database would be good for me to hold the songs. Thanks ...

Recognizing notes within recorded sound - Python

Hi folks, I'm wondering if I can extract a sequence of musical notes from a recorded sound using Python. It is the first time I'm considering using Python for this. Help would be truly awesome :) ...

Can't read ID3 tags after Froyo update?

I have a music player app on the Market and my users starting reporting problems with music showing up as "Unknown Artist" and "Unknown Title" after the Froyo update. I have noticed the same behavior on my Motorola Droid 2 running Froyo. Doing some googling, I find other users (and even Last.fm confirmed the issue) that "Android" is no...

Building a midi file - Python

Hi folks!! This is a follow-up on my previous question. I have successfully extracted a set of frequencies from input audio, now what would you guys recommend for building a MIDI file? Thanks for your help! ...

How does one become a "sound programmer"? (in video games or other industries)

Question: What languages/platforms/technologies would one have to learn in order to be qualified to apply for various "sound" or "audio" programmer positions available at video game and other industry companies? Is this position more of a low-level programmer, in which you implement concepts completely designed by a developer, or does i...

How to get current playing song details from mediaplayer.

Is there any way to get the details of current song played by mediaplayer? ...

Setting up the IMediaPlaybackService for Android.

Hello all, I'm having trouble with the IMediaPlaybackService for Android. I'm told that all I need to do is place it into its package (in this case, com.android.music), however I can't get my project to build when I do this. The code for IMediaPlaybackService is as follows: /* //device/samples/SampleCode/src/com/android/samples/app/R...

BSD lincese-like music repository?

I am developing an iPhone game and is sourcing for some in-game background music. It's a puzzle game and so music for meditation or yoga are probably suitable too. So my question is where to look for such open source-like music repository, just like source code on github and artworks on deviantart ... ? Thanks! ...

iPhone/iPad - Loop Background Music?

Hi First time doing this, hope you can help. What the best way of playing background music for my iPad game? 1b. How do I do this? Whats the best format of having that music file in for playback? Will this this song happily play through the entire game, no interruptions when changing view? How can I loop this music? Thanks. ...

Calculating frequency from amplitude and bitrate

Hey Stackoverflow; I currently have an array full of data which from what I believe is the Amplitude of my wave file. It is currently at a low -32768 and at a high 32767. I also have the SampleRate which was 16,000hz. My understanding of sound isn't very good; does anyone know from this how I can calculate the Frequency? Help greatly...

Finding names to songs in .NET

I have a collection of mp3, wma's etc that may or may not have the correct song information. Is there a service or an API that I can use in .NET to find the correct song title / artist for each file? ...

Monotouch -- Playing MP3 on a distant server

Hi, I want to play a MP3 which is on a distant server. What can i do to play the MP3 in a Iphone Application ? ...

Catching MEDIA_BUTTON intent on pre-2.2 OS

Hi, I am trying to catch media key event from a headphones that have media controls. I registered a BroadcastReceiver for the MEDIA_BUTTON intent. This code generally works on devices that doesn't have the default android music player, I could catch all the MEDIA_BUTTON intents on my Sony X10. It doesn't work on my friend's HTC, it seems...

How to buy music via Amazon Music or some other online store?

I need to buy music from Amazon Music or some other online store from my web service. I can't found API for this functional on Amazon web services and also i can't found it in iTunes Store. Does anybody know solution for this task? ...

jQuery Music Player

Looking out to add some music in the background to my website, the way its done on flash website, so i need a music player with very small control panel which i can put at the bottom of the website to turn the music on or off, that's it. ...

Getting Zune information into Trillian

So I've been trying to get this to work for a long time, but I don't really know the Trillian API and need some help. I can do it three different ways: Get song info from registry (using http://znp.codeplex.com/) Read information from a fake Winamp window (http://tinyurl.com/znpdig) Act as WLM to recieve the messages Zune sends The ...

Transcode FLAC on the fly to MP3 for streaming

I have a large collection of FLAC audio files on my server. I would like to be able to listen to them from my computer (preferably over SSH) and from my iPhone. I realize that SubSonic is able to do all of this but I also found a tool called MP3fs which mounts a mp3 transcode of flac files. What solution should I choose and why? ...

ASP.NET - I'm needing a static music player that remains on the page playing no matter if the user navigates away to another page within the site.

Hey everyone.. I am needing to have a music player (something like a strip down at the bottom of the page that goes all the way across), that remains at the bottom even when the user navigates to another page within the same site. The purpose of this is to play music on the website no matter where the user goes on the website. Hopeful...

Recognizing notes within recorded sound - Part 2 - Python

Hi folks, this is a continuation of this question here. This is the code I used in order to get the samples: spf = wave.open(speech,'r') sound_info = spf.readframes(-1) sound_info = fromstring(sound_info, 'Int16') The length of sound_info is 194560, which is 4.4 times the sample rate of 44100. The length of the sound file is 2.2 s...