Writing an audio player in C#
- by Malki
Hi,
I have a pretty cool idea for a very special media player. I like to think about this project as a mini-startup, since I don't yet know if my idea is practical.
Anyways, before implementing my idea, I first need to be able to implement a simple audio player.
My preferred language for this project is C#, simply because it's so easy to use, but any other object oriented language would be fine too I guess.
I started out with no knowledge whatsoever about audio.
My main goals right now are:
Being able to play audio files - as many formats as possible (sort of a VLC type player, but only audio for now).
Being able to analyze audio files - as in, reading frequency, amplitude, volume, and other information about the audio. I think maybe a good idea here is to be able to analyze one file format (PCM?), and then temporarily converting any file I want to analyze to that format. This is in order to later implement a mechanism that compares songs and identifies similar songs to recommend to the user (this feature isn't part of my idea, but I figured since it exists in many players nowadays, I need to have it too if I want be able to compete with them).
BTW - I currently don't have any knowledge about audio/wavelengths/frequencies and such, so I'd appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction about this analyzation feature.
Maybe in the future I'd expand to playing video files as well, but for now I'm concentrating on audio.
After searching the Internet for a while, I've come across LAME. Problem is, it's not C#, and I'm not sure how to use it.
I know there is something called "Interoperability", that is supposed to let me work with native DLL files through C#. Any information about that would be helpful as well.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks, Malki :)
