AudioTraffic
So after a nearly a month of silence since my last post I thought I’d update on my recent programming. I’ve decided to call this project AudioTraffic. So rather than being a media player (with bells and whistles) the name actually says what it does (ish) - i.e. it manages all your audio between the web (podcasts), your PC/Laptop, a network storage (ftp?), etc.
Since Nov, I’ve had no feedback from my email to LugRadio. This is hardly surprising since my project doesn’t really relate to anything they do, so it wouldn’t be fair for me to have a go at them about this!
The other main problem is actually playing MP3s and Oggs. At first I looked at the Java Media Framework (JMF) but this doesn’t seem to have support for Oggs and would require the user to have JMF installed on their machine (although this is not hard, I don’t want to have to ask any users to do this). Then I looked at the some of the JavaZoom classes - decodes music on the fly. Very nice, except that the order in which I looked at them meant that the most suitable BasicPlayer was looked at last! So loads of time wasted here. I still haven’t quite got this working properly, but that seems to be because of Eclipse 3.2. Just my luck eh!
I seem to be having the same problems as here and will now try Eclipse 3.1 - wish me luck!