My dad's birthday is coming up. As a child/youth he recorder music of the radio (as many did then) and catalogued them.
I want to create a audio player that displays the songs similar to the way he wrote them ( image linked at bottom). Has a play all for that page but also has the function to play individual songs. If possible I would like a page turn animation when switching between pages. I wold like it to be possible to jump to certain pages e.g page a, page b etc.
I have seen how to create simple media players where you open a file. However I haven't been able to see what I am after.
The layout I am thinking of is the song list top, and Controls at bottom.
My question(s) is which language is best for this and how best to go about doing this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thought I'd best add that I do not know programming and will be learning what I need for this project as I go. So if possible could you explain your help or indicate which part of it I will need to Google.
UPDATE
Thank you for the replies. I went with VB as suggested and would love some feedback if nobody minds. As I learned more I kept changing my design so it has taken a while to get back to you.
My plan now is to: *Implement any changes recommended *Change a little of the gui - +Change the image of the Insert Tape and Play tape buttons +Remove the Window media player (Mark not visible) and polish off the control buttons *Use FormB as the template for the rest of the pages *Look into compiling the program +Test on second computer and laptop + Possible test on my brothers computer if he is willing to download it
As well as putting the code here I have uploaded the project to Dropbox. There are two version. With music files (62.8 MB and without 5.75 MB. Please note the files are not the copyrighted songs I have substituted them with royalty free alternatives (please see below for attribution). I I changed the file names instead of code to make it easier should I forget to change it back.
Ok the code was too long to add in so uploaded it to GithubGist
FormB vb https://gist.github.com/Phoenix830/6cc03bc9bb54bdd98aaf4641acaef075
FormB.Designer VB https://gist.github.com/Phoenix830/3f347129ebc7c4d5410c9b44a7df9a81
Custom Controls - Lab_But vb https://gist.github.com/Phoenix830/d7bd00b16e08f116dbf12159e3d464af
Trackbar vb https://gist.github.com/Phoenix830/4e90cf4df9a3ed694e4b9aa3dc60ead6
Zip files No music https://www.dropbox.com/s/vdjlc1648qi4bpd/Cassette%20Tapes%20-%20No%20Music.rar?dl=0
With Music https://www.dropbox.com/s/i1m5zh0449385zn/Cassette%20Tapes.rar?dl=0
I think that is everything about my current code. This is Attributes and source notes.
Music Title Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
01-Barry_Manilow_-_Mandy.mp3 = Arroz Con Pollo.mp3
02-Barry_Manilow-New_York_City_Rhythm = Cheery Monday.mp3
03-Barry_Manilow_-_Looks_Like_We_Made_It = Galway.mp3
04-Barry_Manilow_-_Can't_Smile_Without_You = Glitter Blast
05-Barry_Manilow-Ready_to_Take_a_Chance_Again = Industrious Ferret
06-Barry_Manilow-Tryin'_to_Get_the_Feeling_Again = Le Grand Chase
07-Barry_Manilow-Could_It_Be_Magic = Nouvelle Noel
08-Barry_Manilow_-_Copacabana = Onion Capers
S2-01-Barry_Manilow-It's_a_Miracle = Teddy Bear Waltz
S2-02-Barry_Manilow-All_the_Time = Unholy Knight
S2-03-Barry_Manilow-I_Write_the_Songs = Zazie
This flaged up as an error if I didn't mark it as code
TrackBar
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i1m5zh0449385zn/Cassette%20Tapes.rar?dl=0
I have tried removing some excess code and still have to delete commented out sections that I don't need. I don't understand this enough and can not find enough information online to implement this in my own code using this just as a guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gi_JFAavM4
Getting MP3 info http://forums.codeguru.com/showthread.php?409651-RESOLVED-How-to-check-the-song-playing-in-Windows-Media-Player
I can not fully remember all the forums, Youtube videos and Microsoft documents I viewed. I will try to add them if I find them as I go over my notes.
These last few links may or may not be overkill but thought worth adding encase they are useful to someone else
Also updated keywords. If they are wrong let me know and I will change them
One of the simplest languages to learn and to easily create an interface i would say is actually Visual Basic in Visual Studio, do download that and google things like "how to play audio file in VB.NET" and "how to add directories to list in VB.NET" and try to use the directories in the list (and when a song reaches it's end) just start on the next one in the list. I would use a ListBox for this. Tell me if you need more help, i would be glad to help you program it, if you need.