music

XMMS2: set notifications on title change

I am attempting to set a notification for a title change in XMMS2 for a radio station. I found the values for status changes but none of them seem to correspond to this sort of change. ...

Best language to create a drum emulator (Rock Band Input)

Hello there! I've been interested in making a type of 'drum emulator' using the rockband drum controller as an input. Windows systems recognize the controller as a Game pad. So, I was wondering what the best languauge to implement this in is? I have made a sample program that works using the JInput API (Java), but I can't implement mul...

Pitch detection using neural networks

I am trying to use ANN for pitch detection of musical notes. The network is a simple two-layer MLP, whose inputs are basically a DFT (averaged and logarithmically distributed), and 12 outputs correspond to the 12 notes of a particular octave. The network is trained with several samples of those 12 notes played by some instrument (one no...

A way to do music in an iphone game with small file sizes

I'm making an iphone game, currently using openAL for SFX, we want to keep the game under 10 meg. iphone (through openAL atleast) only natively plays uncompressed PCM. what would be the most strait forward way of getting music from some sort of good compressed format (mp3, aac, ogg ect) into my game? is there some sort of decoder api?...

Determining which song the user is listening at the moment with JavaScript and Firefox

Hi, I am creating a Firefox extension which will be using the Last.fm API. Now I want the extension to be able to determine which song the user is currently listening in WMP or iTunes. Does someone know how I can do this? useful edit: I only need the song name, album name and artist Thanks ...

html page preload & music player

please check out this site: http://www.awdio.com Does anyone know how i could add a preloader(with fade effect) on an html page? i think google has the same effect. What about the music player? it never stops playing while refreshing the page or navigate through the site. How can this be done and not losing stats(page visits-loads)? A...

Programatically synthesizing programming music?

Note: this is NOT a "music for programming" question. My question is: I want to write a computer program that can synthesize repetitive beats (which I can control via the command line) to pipe music into my ears. I'm curious if there are existing tools to do this (and if not, what libraries to use). The general idea is: 1) the compu...

How do I group similar catalog products (CD & mp3) on the landing page of my Ubercart store?

I'm working on an ubercart/drupal 6 store that sells CD's, Vinyl, MP3's and more. We need to have multiple purchasing options (separate buttons for "buy cd", buy mp3 album") appear under one container for each band's product on the store's landing page. Right now each album has its own separate product page and sku created for the categ...

Sorting SQL row output per an arbitrary order?

So, in my database, I store musical instrument names (and various other attributes). Let's say id is the primary key, and name is a unique key. In a PHP script, I select items by their instrument class, like so: $name = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['name']); $row = mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `instruments` WHERE name ...

Change Source in MediaElement (SILVERLIGHT)

I would like to change song on my MediaElent from track1.mp3 to track2.mp3. And here is the code: MyMediaElement.Stop(); Uri u = new Uri("track2.mp3", UriKind.Relative); MyMediaElement.Source=u; MyMediaElement.Play(); The MediaElement change the source but just wont start. What could possibly be wrong with this code? ...

What is involve in creating a music player in .NET?

I have always wanted to make a music player. But i have no idea how to. I dont need it to be cross playform, just as long as it works. Each part is its own question but let me know if i am missing any. I broke it up into simple, unknown and long Simple Selecting Files/Directories using a Dialog Saving playlist and other settings (jso...

Detecting if music is playing?

Hi! My app involves music(iPodMusic), and there is a UISwitch toggling play/pause. My goal is to be able to detect if music is playing, so that therefore the play/pause switch can say 'play' when music is playing and 'pause' if it isn't. ...

Are there XML like Standards to write Sheet music

Hey All, Is there an xml or some form of a text standard that one can write music sheets in? For example: <key= "C" /> <tempo= "90" /> <beat= "4/4" /> <measure id="1"> // some form of music goes here </measure> ...

Programmatically reading and changing elapsed time of music(iPod's media library)?

I am creating a music application, much like the standard music app. Now, I am befuddled on how they were able to read and change the elapsed time of a song using a UISlider. How is it possible to read and change the elapsed time of a song? ...

Sheet Music or Tablature APIs?

I'm surprised this hasn't been done yet...I'm looking for a sheet music and/or a guitar tablature API. ...

resources for sound and music processing

i find it very hard to find good texts about sound and music when looking in the programming area the hardest part being "what part of it have i learnt yet?", since i have never found anything describing the part already documented against the great unknown (=things no-one has well understood yet) from sound synthesis to automatic musi...

Web-based Music and Sound synthesis - Survey

My question is threefold What cool web-based examples have you seen that generate music dynamically by the user? Either based on samples with an interesting interface, by sound synthesis or similar methods. Example: http://acko.net/blog/javascript-audio-synthesis-with-html-5 Has any serious web-based dynamical sound synthesis been done...

Adapting music in response to events

Curiosity question. Nothing serious to do with it. What are the algorithms and techniques to adapt seamlessly the theme and feeling of a soundtrack to the events the user performs. In other words, how does iMUSE work, and what kind of data do you feed in? ...

Which is the best approach to use music and sounds in AS3?

Hi ppl, I participate in a important project right now and I have to implement a class that manages music and sound. The project that I'm making is developed in AS3 using the Flex enviroment. Is there a "best approach" or only different ones?... Thx. ...

AddMusic example Ipod library access

I want to use the addmusic example that apple have created for the IPod library access and be able to play the music in MY application; I however dont know which files to copy and how to combine the two... can someone please tell me what to do? I already have created a button in MY application which will then upon click do the same thing...