Random Fractals» music http://randomfractals.com/blog Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:57:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Perlin Noise Music Vis http://randomfractals.com/blog/2008/10/16/perlin-noise-music-vis/ http://randomfractals.com/blog/2008/10/16/perlin-noise-music-vis/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:40:46 +0000 Taras http://tarasnovak.com/blog/?p=86 Here is a fun Perlin noise music vis with The X-Ecutioners “cuttin’ it up, scratchin’ it… They sounded so good they made everybody dance. (Check it out.)” — Like This:

(Click on the visualization to change color channels)

Doesn’t it look like a crowd dancing in the club? Well, close enough. Here is the real deal:

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While I am looking for a new gig, I’ll try to revive this blog by remixing and publishing some old toys I’ve prototyped to get my Flex chops together.

Here is the one that did not make the cut for that internal AIR Flair presentation. I had to play that jungle Bamboo Banga beat in WMP11.

(Click on the image to play and download sample code)

That’s my take on simple mp3 player in Flex. Click on that visualization to see some bars jump.

Most of the heavy lifting is done by the components from the flex community listed below.

Under the hood:

Obsidian Flex UI skin from scalenine.com gallery to give this player some polished look and feel.

nl.fxc.controls.MP3Player.as class from labs.flexcoders.nl for the audio playback control with minor changes to expose some properties and events to the main view controls. Why reinvent the wheel :)

Music Visualization is provided by the excellent Audio Visualization component by Ben Stucki.

I created the main mxml view, layout and custom icons. All in all about two pages of code and a couple of days to prototype it and publish.

Now, this music player is intentionally very basic and only plays one sample.mp3 track from the /assets/music folder.

If you are looking for a more versatile Flex music player that’s scriptable and supports playlists, I’d suggest you grab the latest Flex xml mp3 player which is an excellent port of the well known XSPF Web Music Player to Flex.

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