Flowstone MP3 Player [Example] - 2 Questions on How to...

[tiffy]

The Flowstone MP3 Player example can only load and play one [1] MP3 file at a time.

A) My question is how to load and display more than one MP3 files at a time and play them automatically in sequence ?

B) How to fast forward a loaded MP3 file in the MP3 Player?

I intend buying the full version of Flowstone for developing some small audio projects but I have to first know/understand how to do these two items in my two questions above.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

[nix]

The MP3 implementation is really basic(ie.sucky)
If you want to fast forward the mp3, you will have to render it to .wav,
which can be done within FS.
All the editing and playback functions are only available to 'mem' &
'float array' not mp3.
If u primarily wish to work with MP3s,
I only recommend FS if you are willing to render them to wave.
Otherwise ask the devs if they are willing to make a mp3 to 'mem' primitive,
then editing and playback functions will be available.
Cheers
edit, I had a quick look at the thing,
and you can sequence instances of the 'audiostreamin' prim by reading the playback position percentage.
So it is possible to make a playlist bro

[tiffy]

The MP3 implementation is really basic(ie.sucky)
If you want to fast forward the mp3, you will have to render it to .wav,
which can be done within FS.
All the editing and playback functions are only available to 'mem' &
'float array' not mp3.
If u primarily wish to work with MP3s,
I only recommend FS if you are willing to render them to wave.
Otherwise ask the devs if they are willing to make a mp3 to 'mem' primitive,
then editing and playback functions will be available.
Cheers
edit, I had a quick look at the thing,
and you can sequence instances of the 'audiostreamin' prim by reading the playback position percentage.
So it is possible to make a playlist bro

Hi nix, Thank you for the advice.

I managed to create a Playlist for the MP3 Player but it is not very user friendly - I would like to select several files at once with the mouse and then enter them into the playlist. But currently, it is done manually from the keyboard one by one file at a time, but at least it works.

However, the issue on the Fast Forward/Fast Reverse & Skip commands for the MP3 Player seems to be a big problem for me with Flowstone. I could do the same thing very easily in another software programming language called Real Basic or Real Studio, but in Flowstone it is very hard to do it seems.

Best regards.

[Jay]

Hi tiffy

yes the mp3 capabilities in SM and FS are very very poor indeed, what i have been using is mpg123 to convert mp3 files on the fly into wave files for better handling, this came from a demonstration from another author Mwvdlee back on the SM forum! he also has a custom app for handling meta data in use but i don't use that.

take a look at his project here - http://synthmaker.co.uk/forum/viewtopic ... lit=skratz

his method works very well for me, as for a playlist this is much easier achieved once you are working with wave files.
for my project i have done the playlist in another dev application and it uses tcp connections to transmit song selections to my player.

have a look at Mwvdlee's work and if you are stuck I will upload a stripped down version of my player for you.

best regards

[tester]

Interesting project, I'm interested too.

[Jay]

hiya guys here is the stripped down version of the player i am using, you need to make the folder path.temp point to the mpg123 file to use it!
it places the converted file into the users music folder before loading (on win 7) you may have to make changes on if you use xp i am not sure about that though as i no longer use xp myself!

mp3 conversion.rar

(154.9 KiB) Downloaded 1100 times

conversion is instantaneous on my i7 quad , 32gbs ram with solid state drives! might be slower on lesser systems! let me know!

my playlist is not included but can give you to look at it if you want! it is basically a delphi treeview with drag n drop feeding a listbox then fed to the player with tcp! and it is an exe!

best regards

[ruben]

Dear Bros...

Flowstone and the late synthmaker are snob programs or their creators are to limited to make anything usefull on the MP3 world... MP3 is a format very usefull and to prove it see that almost all the Dj programs and Daws use MP3 too.
But not Flowstone! I asked some months ago and posted a DJ mixer exemple with MP3 player to try to see if some of our brothers would find a way to jump over the MP3 Sindrome... But, no playlists, no better pitch or any MP3 rompler was created... So its seems that is not a problem of quality of the format, its a problem of knowledge and creativity. I think we'll never see FS working with MP3s and get all the great possibilites it has to inovate and develop...

[tester]

I would not be so sure. With the next release they are adding some new system/extension prims (like HID), so my guess is they may expand also this part in the nearest future. Maybe they are digging around, how to connect directshow access to FS? That would solve all codec problems, not only MP3. But adding it correctly - may be a larger task.

They never talked about directshow accessibility, nor answered to questions related to it, so I suspect they still are not sure how to approach it.