i need to read a MP3 files in JAVA ..

[shibdutta]

hi...

i need to read a MP3 files in JAVA .. not MP3 but many Music
files...

can any one help..
thanks

 

[Andrew Thompson]

i need to read a MP3 files in JAVA .. not MP3 but many Music
files...

Reading them is easy. It is playing or unencoding
or encoding them that is trickier.

The best Sun offers is the (now abandoned) JMF.
It has limited support for MP3 (on the powerpack,
AFAIU) but the chances of getting it to work with
any random variety of more modern codecs or formats
is low (unless you write the encoder/unencoder
yourself).

Apart from that, I vaguely recall hearing good things
about the Tritonus plug-in, but you'd have to do your
own leg work there - I have not used it.

Andrew T.

 

[Chris]

hi...

i need to read a MP3 files in JAVA .. not MP3 but many Music
files...

can any one help..
thanks

JLayer. http://www.javazoom.net/javalayer/javalayer.html

 

[mearvk]

hi...

i need to read a MP3 files in JAVA .. not MP3 but many Music
files...

can any one help..
thanks

Check out the Java Sound API:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/sound/programmer_guide/contents.html

Mearvk

 

[Andrew Thompson]

....
Check out the Java Sound API:

The Java sound API cannot handle MP3's, let alone
a wide variety of music formats.

Andrew T.

 

[Daniel Dyer]

The Java sound API cannot handle MP3's, let alone
a wide variety of music formats.

It can apparently handle some MP3s (via a plugin). I was playing with
this a while ago. See this thread (particularly Knute Johnson's responses
to my queries):

<http://groups.google.com/group/comp..._frm/thread/3eff437e410c6a30/84506c0ae3301df1>

Dan.

 

[Andrew Thompson]

It can apparently handle some MP3s (via a plugin).

Aaah, *that's* where I "vaguely recall hearing good things
about the Tritonus plug-in" (and I even remembered the right
spelling..

But I note you say 'apparently', and that thread ends
on a 'hopeful but inconclusive' note. Did you ever
proceed with your MP3 project?

Andrew T.

 

[shibdutta]

thanks...i m working on that...some groundwork is left...

i may also need to read the propreties of these music files...such as
title... artist...album etc...
is there any for that...

 

[Andrew Thompson]

thanks...

(looks up) Thanks for what?

...i m working on that...

(looks up) Working on what?

Please refrain from top-posting.

Andrew T.

 

[Daniel Dyer]

Aaah, *that's* where I "vaguely recall hearing good things
about the Tritonus plug-in" (and I even remembered the right
spelling..

But I note you say 'apparently', and that thread ends
on a 'hopeful but inconclusive' note. Did you ever
proceed with your MP3 project?

I don't think I had much success with the Sun plugin, but I did manage to
get something working with the JavaLayer stuff
(http://www.javazoom.net/javalayer/javalayer.html). If I remember
correctly, I'd decided I was going to write my own MP3 player because I
wanted something like iTunes for Linux (I was going to read the iTunes
database from the Windows parition so that I could play whatever
files/playlists were configured with iTunes under Windows). Like many of
these ideas I have, the motivation didn't last long and the code joined
the long list of half-started projects that litter my hard disk.

Dan.