perl MP3 player

primus has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

salutations monks,

even though i immensly enjoy WinAmp 2.81, i sigh knowing that it is not written in perl. so, i was thinking about writing a suave perl/Tk MP3 player.

i figure that there are probably ones somewhere out there on the web, but that's not of concern. writting this would be for the pure joy of using perl. i just have one problem: i really dont know how to play an MP3 with perl...

there is this module on CPAN, MP3::Player::PtkConcert, and i am not quite sure what it does... i am hoping to be able to play MP3s on both win32 and nix OSes.

thanks for the help monks... i give a salute to perl

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Re: perl MP3 player by thewalledcity (Friar) on Jan 14, 2003 at 17:57 UTC
That module is used to interface with Intel's Pocket Concert. You might take a look at MPEG::MP3Play and Audio::MPEG	[reply]
Re: perl MP3 player by Fletch (Bishop) on Jan 14, 2003 at 17:55 UTC
Well, there is at least one POE component on CPAN for driving mpg123. Waxing editorial . . . Then again, there's the overriding "If it's not broke . . ." sentement. Playing MP3's requires quite a bit of number crunching (which isn't perl's fort&eaccute;), and Tk just looks so circa-early-90s-Motif-esquely ugly. XMMS and WinAmp: Already exist Already work Unless you're interested in signal processing or something to use Inline::C with, you could probably find a better project.	[reply]
Re: perl MP3 player by BUU (Prior) on Jan 15, 2003 at 00:08 UTC
In addition to the above listed modules, you might want to try just writing (another) front end to mpg123. Just please, don't distribute it as over 4000 curently exist.	[reply]
Re: perl MP3 player by hangareighteen (Monk) on Jan 15, 2003 at 10:57 UTC
I have written a perl interface to the MAD mpeg decoding library. I have written several pure perl mpeg players using this library, it's Audio::Mad and it's fairly alpha just yet. It hasn't received much testing and I haven't advocated it's use too much; but it works for me. I also wrote a POE component based on this module which handles the decoding process on it's own and sends out status updates. It's not released, but if you're interested, I could easily put it up.	[reply]
Re: Re: perl MP3 player by Coplan (Pilgrim) on Mar 25, 2003 at 18:05 UTC
You've used Audio::MAD? I could use your help. I just dropped a message in the Seekers of Perl Wisdom: Audio::mad -- any experience with this module? --Coplan	[reply]