Music API?

[brturn]

Sub,

Thanks for those new APIs. What version will they be in?

I have a working "hello world" project now, based on the weather app source. It was pretty easy to get set up, and the graphics architecture allows a lot of freedom, which is nice since the Jukebox will need sub-menus as well.

Questions:
- How do you show the current play time on video? That is basically what I want to display for the currently playing track.

- Since you gave access to the playlist + index, I won't need an event to signal the end of the playlist (but still need the track time + length, or filename + position to display play time).

- What API are you using for directory browsing? Is there a standard in .NET for this?

- How do you extract the track information given a file name (ie: artist, album, genre, etc..)? Is there a .NET API for this also?

Thanks,
--Bryan

[sub]

Hi brturn.

I was intending to do a release over last weekend, but I'm pretty busy at work at the moment so it'll be a few more days.

I've changed the method I added a couple of days ago to:

IList GetAudioPlayList(out int currentIndex, out int trackDuration, out int playbackPosition);

trackDuration and playbackPosition will return values in seconds.

[sub]

I use the System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(...) method for find files in a directory. It also has static methods for gettings lists of directories.

[sub]

I've got a pretty small class that I use for extracting the ID3 tags from MP3 files. Email me if you want a copy.

[brturn]

Sub,

Excellent, that set of APIs should give all the functionality I need for the Jukebox.

Keep up the good work!
--Bryan

[brturn]

Sub,

There's another piece missing.. I need the Audio directory from the configuration file.

Is that available from the XML config interface, or would you rather expose it via the Helper class?

Thanks,
--Bryan

[sub]

Just get that from the config. The setting isn't going to change.

[tkgafs]

Quote[/b] (sub @ May 01 2004,19:03)]The next release also contains a method to determine the client type (Overlay/VMR/XCARD/MVP). In the case of the MVP, the MAC address is appended to this.

Are there any details on using this method ?

tkgafs

[bryan]

If you use the function:

PluginHelperFactory.getPluginHelper().GetClientIdentifier()

It will return a string containing:

MVP xxxxxxxxxxxx

where xxxxxxxxxxxxx is the MAC address of the MVP you are connected to.

[tkgafs]

Sub,

in the jukebox plugin the following code is used
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
int currentIndex;
int trackDuration;
int playbackPosition;
System.Collections.IList PlayList = PluginHelperFactory.getPluginHelper().GetAudioPlayList(out currentIndex, out trackDuration, out playbackPosition);


[/QUOTE]

this works fine if the plugin is running on the PC but does not work if the plugin is using an MVP as its client

is the method if thats the right terminology implemented on the MVP client ?

tkgafs