IMP - Irrlicht Media Player •• [UPDATED: 11 SEPT 2011] ••

[jorgerosa]

YOUTUBE Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_sg8Mj3zlA (DEPRECATED)
YOUTUBE Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnZtUx6KOKI (NEW)

Screenshot: (August 2010) (DEPRECATED)


Screenshot: (August 2011) (NEW)


ABOUT:
Ok, here we go, how about develop an Media Player (Like Winamp, MusicMatch Jukebox, QCD, Foobar2000, Aimp, Xmms, etc, etc) but that consumes lots of CPU resources? And this project could be indeed the world´s media player that consumes more resources... Sounds bad, right?... Not really, its the way that we can impress our friends... and, most important, its all for our own fun !!!
TARGET:
• Lets try to keep this platform independent (Windows, GNU/Linux (Ubuntu), Mac)
• Everything (code) should be clean, simple and well commented as possible (So any user could use this project for his own study, including newbies... Like me!)
FEATURES:
(Some features are already done) Loads and play audio files ("wav", "aiff", "ogg", "flac", "mp3", "mod", "s3m", "it", "xm"). Will also have a jukebox mode, when it starts to play... then in the stage a character(s) (singer, singers, dancing girls, etc, etc) will dance, jump, play musical instrument(s), whatever, with lots of blinking lights and flash lights, etc... (kind of retro disco ambiance) also with random nice audience events (eg: flash lights cameras, audience clapping (when a music reaches the end), etc, etc, etc...). All these events will be random or read from an custom saved external XML file.
ONLY LATER... And maybe(!?)... we could add an online mode, so a new user may join (a characther will be added in the seats, with his nickname over it) and listen our playing music (stream), and be able to chat (comment), etc... I think this isn´t been done yet in any other media player...



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IRRLICHT MEDIA PLAYER - LAST UPDATE: 11 SEPTEMBER 2011 (Pre Alpha 0.9+)

DOWLOAD:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/irrlichtmp

IMPORTANT:
To run this application, go to the "bin" folder, then just click on the "IMP_RELEASE.exe" file.

HELP:
I need help to port this project to MAC OSX and for GNU/LINUX, I also loved to have a .deb file to easily install on UBUNTU.
It´s all set (mostly), the project already uses GCC Compiler, 2 platform independent libraries (irrlicht + Audiere), uses only OpenGL video driver (not MS DirectX), and the project file opens with Code::Blocks (not MS Visual Basic C++). So... Anyone to help me on this? I have no time and not the right equipment to do this all, and test it, by myself. Help would be nice for future versions too. (You can just post here a downloadable link, with the compiled project and source or contact me, any option would be great). Thankyou!

• BIG THANKYOU TO "ANDARILHOS" TO GIVE 3 COMMERCIAL TRACKS FROM THEIR NEW MUSIC ALBUM,
EXCLUSIVELY FOR THIS IRRLICHT PROJECT !!! THEY ARE INCLUDED IN THE ABOVE DOWNLOAD FILE !!!
• Ok, since "IMP - Irrlicht Media Player" is the first "3D Virtual Stage Media Player" in the world... ANDARILHOS are now the first music band in the world, to perform the very first real "3D VIRTUAL CONCERT" ever... AND... We have free tickets!... How about that?
Their Website: http://www.andarilhos.com

• IMPORTANT: These download files are no more hosted in my homepage: http://sites.google.com/site/jorgerosaportfolio
(Since its now bigger than 20MB, that is the maximum file size limit that google sites allows, and the project has now more than 30MB file size)

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STATUS: Its only in a sort of a test phase, to see how stuff works (But I think its in the right way)
REQUIREMENTS: OpenGL installed (Update your Video Card Drivers)
RESOURCES: All current scene (stage) static objects are in ".OBJ" format. For animation (animated meshes), I´m using ".X" format (exported from 3D Studio Max with "panda" plugin) and ".MD3" format (exported from 3D Studio Max with "MD3 Exporter" plugin). So, you can edit objects using any 3D Modeler that imports/exports that file formats. (eg. Blender).
LICENCE: This application is 100% free. No restritions. And even SALES of this app ARE ALLOWED IF used for any kind of charity purposes (eg: for a familly, helping children, helping poors, organizations, foundations, etc, etc). BUT please note, its not final version, still under development! And If you have any questions or doubts, please feel free to email me. (More info in the included ".txt" file)

TODO, Next Priority Steps:
1) [Home] Drink a beer...
2) [Irrlicht] Add disco mirror balls (Lots of small spot lights with rotation effect in all scene, maybe a ".PNG" image(?)...). Partial done...
3) [Irrlicht] Browse for system directories (browse for music files).
4) [Audiere] Audio spectrum analyser, needed to synchronize visual effects with music beats, etc...
(Most of the code for all the above features is already started or done, still any kind of help is VERY welcome!)


USED TOOLS:
• A big hammer (platform independent)
• IRRLICHT (V.1.7.2) --> http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net (platform independent)
• AUDIERE (V.1.9.4) --> http://audiere.sourceforge.net (platform independent)
• SFML --> http://www.sfml-dev.org (Only testing at the moment... I´ve found lack of MP3 support... could this be bad (?) ...)
• Code::Blocks (V.10.05) --> http://www.codeblocks.org (platform independent)

(Please post/send your comments, code, ideas, screenshots, etc.)

[kazymjir]

Looks interesting!
I am very interesting in this project, also I can help develop in free time

[jorgerosa]

[EDIT] ALL URLS UPDATED IN THE ABOVE MAIN POST

[greenya]

Look nice!
This would be a great screensaver (running fullscreen with camera following some random paths)

[REDDemon]

lol amazing. it remembers me the first duke nukem 3D in the first level of the city there was a stage of the disco.

[jorgerosa]

Thankyou all. Glad that you like Now, you can add your own music in the "music" folder. A clickable GUI button will be generated for each found music. And has a lot new features too. And please note that i still need help, to improve this. Have fun, hope that you like.

[serengeor]

4) [Audiere] Get audio file length in HH:MM:SS format.

what format do you get it in right now?

[jorgerosa]

Please note that, I´m using AUDIERE -> http://audiere.sourceforge.net/
After seaching a lot, seems the way to get real time length (milliseconds), should be something like:

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audiere::SampleSource * blah = OpenSampleSource("myMusic.mp3");
 
// Calculate length in seconds here ....
int milliseconds = ??????;
 
// The code (formulas) that I´ll use for a HH:MM:SS time format:
int hours = milliseconds/(1000*60*60);
int minutes = (milliseconds%(1000*60*60))/(1000*60);
int seconds = ((milliseconds%(1000*60*60))%(1000*60))/1000;
 
sound = OpenSound(audiereDevice, blah);
sound->play();
 

1) I have all that i need. Only need to get time in milliseconds from an "mp3" file. (Using: sound->getLength(); Only retrieves frames count).
[EDIT] 2) Lyrics added: Will display, if available. They are in the "music" folder. Code is not fully done yet, but will give you the main idea...
[EDIT] Forget this post. The right solution, for AUDIERE, is in the next one.

[jorgerosa]

[RESOLVED] Lyrics are now synchronized! Ok, since i had no help for this, i´ve been digging around on this issue, for the last few days, to get lyrics done. Even in the AUDIERE forums lots of people is asking how to get music length (track duration) converted from frames to seconds or milliseconds, needed to develop a decent music player, but with no valid answers So, if you will work with AUDIERE forget my above post code (i´ll keep it there as the wrong way to do this, still it works with many other audio libraries). Here goes the "how-to" to everyone that might have the same problem, and is looking for a solution too:

Using AUDIERE - First you will need this, after the music is loaded:

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/// Frame rate, ex: 44100
sound->getFormat(channels, rate, format);

Using AUDIERE - Then, add these formulas:

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/// Converting from frames, to seconds:
int factor1 = sound->getLength()/rate;    // Retrieves number in seconds, ex: 175678555
int factor2 = sound->getPosition()/rate;  // Retrieves number in seconds, ex: 13428
int mil1 = factor1-(factor1-factor2);     // Current music position
int mil2 = factor1;                       // Total music length
 
int seconds1 = mil1 %60;
int minutes1 = mil1 /60;
int hours1   = mil1 /(60*60);
int days1    = mil1 /(60*60*24);
 
int seconds2 = mil2 %60;
int minutes2 = mil2 /60;
int hours2   = mil2 /(60*60);
int days2    = mil2 /(60*60*24);
 

Thats all! For more info, search in the "main.cpp" file, for the above code.
The rate var is the key (one of) to get all the lengths in seconds.
--> Now you will be able to display in your IRRLICHT app, the music position and length in HH:MM:SS format!
--> Now you can create your own lyrics, they will be synchronized correctly with the music.
(Now, its time to improve the graphics and other stuff... Time to mooooooooooooove forward....)

[mongoose7]

I like your player.

The zip file contains some source, so I thought I would try to compile it. But it won't compile for various reasons. (Arrays declared with a dimension of zero or a dimension which is a local variable, compiler refusing to accept constructors because the types don't match, 'include <dirent.h>' in a Windows build, etc.)

So, I guess the included source is not the source used to build the executable. Is this correct?

[jorgerosa]

Hi mongoose7, thanks! EDIT: UPDATED! A new version is now available! (Things should be MUCH easier. All first post links are updated!)

[mongoose7]

OK, thanks. I think the only change was to add a couple of headers.

I don't know if you are interested, but, Line 74,

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bool my_filter(char c){ return c==' '; c==';'; c=='-'; c=='\n'; }

should be

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bool my_filter(char c){ return c==' ' || c==';' || c=='-' || c=='\n'; }

(I guess). Also, Line 1092, VC++ doesn't like

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ppEffectName[0]={"Monitor"};

preferring

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ppEffectName[0]="Monitor";

Also, I don't know how you get away with using 'opendir()' in Windows, but I guess you have your ways.

[jorgerosa]

I don't know if you are interested, but...

Sure I am interested! The main ideia is to improve this project, still I don´t have all the needed time, to do it all, by myself. Thankyou mongoose7, for the tips! EDIT: UPDATED! A new version is now available! (Things should be MUCH easier. All first post links are updated!)

[jorgerosa]

A new IMP version is done (has many improvements), and........
A BIG THANKYOU TO ANDARILHOS TO GIVE US 3 COMMERCIAL TRACKS FROM THEIR NEW MUSIC ALBUM,
EXCLUSIVELY FOR THIS IRRLICHT PROJECT !!! THEY ARE INCLUDED IN THE DOWNLOAD FILE !!!

[jorgerosa]

ORIGINAL WALLPAPER DOWNLOAD: http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/740/ ... rlicht.jpg
MERRY XMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR !