music

Masking Audio

When music is publicly streamed on a website, most of the time they are just linking .mp3 files. Although that doesn't stop anyone from downloading it. How would you prevent this? I had a few ideas: To have the music be in say directory, /tmp/name.mp3 but have it stream through /music/name.mp3. Use a header to check and see if there ...

How can one offer free ringtones on your web site?

I've been asked to come up with options to offer free ringtone downloads on a website. These would be actual free ringtone downloads, not "Sure, we've got free ringtones, but wouldn't you rather have these much cooler ringtones over here for $1.99?", but actual free-to-download ringtones. Is there a way to provide this in a relatively ...

Music transcription

Hi, I'm working on a polyphonic music transcription project. I have read some papers and gone through articles which explains similar tasks. I'am very confused about many aspects of the problem domain. Hope someone will be able to help me. So far I have obtained a stream of decoded audio data from a given mp3. I have understood onse...

set focus on a pop-up with music playing

hi, again trying to do music in a homepage. The music should play on load ... this is how i try to do it. setting up a "window.open" like function Audio() { MyWindow = window.open('mp3/mp3player.html', 'mp3player', "width=130,height=120,left=0,left=100,top=100,location=no"); MyWindow.focus(); } and an Now the music plays ...

How to generate a guitar note

Back in a freshman or software programming class we had to write a program that would simulate the sound of a guitar pluck. I can make pure sin waves all day, but I am trying to remember how to do a sound like a guitar pluck. I remember it had something to with using random() and a falloff constant added to the sin wave, but I can not r...

Library for drawing musical notes

I'm looking for a Windows library that can draw musical notes on the screen in some way. I'm going to use it to write an app in C#, but a pure Win32-based solution is good enough. Does anybody know of any such library? Edit: I'm going to update the notes in real-time, and they need not look incredibly fancy. ...

Music on hold over IAX2 routes

I have trouble setting up MOH over IAX routes over everything else PRI, FXS and SIP its working fine. The problem its that I have the institutional MOH set up in the location A. When someone calls from A to B this happens, if A puts B on hold hears default asterisk MOH no the designated class, also if during the same call B puts her on...

What's the best way of playing audio on Mobile Devices from a web page?

So lets assume we have a load of music files, mp3's most probably but we could re-encode them if it helps. We want as wide a range of people with mobile phones to be able to listen to these as possible via a website - bonus points if we can listen to a playlist (ie. several tracks one after the other). Websites nearly always make use o...

Distinguishing instruments in a music file

Given a music file, is it possible to split out each instrument that is being played? I.e. let's say I have someSong.mp3, and in that song there's vocals, guitar, bass and drums. I'd want to get 4 "tracks" - one for each distinct instrument. I'm guessing that it's almost impossible to do this, given that instruments can overlap, and it'...

Looking for pointers on MIDI driver development

I am looking for resources, documentation and general advices on writing a virtual MIDI device (see my previous question for reasons) and basics of generating MIDI events from a VST plugin. The target platform is Windows, but Mac compatibility would be a plus. ...

How to read ID3 Tag in an MP3 using Python?

Does anyone has an experience of reading and writing ID3 tags in an MP3 file or a WMA file? There are some libraries but I would like to do it from the scratch. :-) ...

Reimplementing the "ToneMatrix" audio toy

There is a really cool audio "toy" called ToneMatrix. I would like to reimplement it as a Java applet. I've tried using JFugue's player.play with individual notes for sound and Thread.sleep for timing, but the results are horrible. JFugue stops responding after the 17th (yes, really, I counted) invocation of player.play and Thread.sleep...

Trying to play music in Java ME, but I get an Exception "Incompatible Types"

I need to play music (this is the only sound in my game). So far I've written this, but it keeps giving me errors: "incompatible types" Here's my sound code: try { InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream("/sound.wav"); Player p = Manager.createPlayer(is, "/X-wav"); p.start(); } catch (IOException ioe) { } catch (...

API or widget to preview songs

Hi, does anyone have experience with any APIs/Widgets for previewing music? We're displaying a list of artists and would love to have a little flash widget to preview a song. Amazon MP3 has a flash widget you can build (specify search terms for), but are there any others you'd recommend? Ideally, there'd be a more programmable API. ...

What is the best way to automatically transpose a LilyPond source file into multiple keys?

problem I'm using LilyPond to typeset sheet music for a church choir to perform. Depending on who is available on any given week, songs will be played in various keys. We have an amazing pianist who can play anything we throw at her and the guitarists will typically pencil in alternate chords, but I want to make things easier by having...

Infrastructure required for a large Scale PHP Project

Hi My team is developing a large music portal in PHP. It is hoped that the portal will have 1 million+ users within a year of its launch. The portal will allow users to create playlists, stream and download music. Till now, we have developed applications that have been used by a maximum of about a 1000 simultaneous users. This portal ...

Music analysis software

Greetings I may have imagined this but does anyone know if Last.fm previously used some form of open source project to perform analysis on music to determine similar music. As its now moved to a pay version I'd like to make something which can add known music to my playlist. (I hate scanning my computer for similar music manually) F...

What is the best way to Stream Audio on a website

I am updating a website for a radio station and they would like to be able stream previously broadcast sports games on the site. Most games are 2 - 3 hours long so the files are really large. What would be the best way to offer these games so users can listen to them without having to download the file? ...

Multimedia Key Assign

Im running a ddell studio 17 and use winamp to play music. all the media keys such as play pause etc work fine. The media button when pressed does not do anything. Is there anyway i could get the media button to launch winamp wen pressed? ...

Editing files remotely on network storage

I would love to have a fat RAID drive array sitting somewhere on the Internet, and just use it for media storage -- essentially I want to play and edit files transparently whether I'm at work or at home. Is this possible? I'm looking at various NAS solutions like this, and while they all tout iTunes streaming and FTP access, I'd like to...