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Sumzero · May 11th, 2005, 2:50 PM

Hello,
I have decided to undertake a personal project of intergrating all media in my house. I will be using a 8" touch screen in my living room as the interface. The first thing I wish to do is Build an MP3 player. I want to use my computers HD as the storage but be able to listen to the music from my home theater system.I just need some advice on where to start. I want the GUI to be custom and leave room to eventually get the Touch Screen to have a vid output as well in order to send movie to my TV. Any ideas on how to make this work. (I only have some HTML exp. I dont know much at all about C/C++)After some research I think Delphi would work best for this. Not 100% sure though. Thanks for any help you guys can give me.
Thank You Very Much

LOI Kratong · May 11th, 2005, 3:16 PM

Do you have any programming experience at all?

Just curious...

Sumzero · May 11th, 2005, 3:31 PM

LOL (go here). This is what I am already doing. How do you think I found this Forum

.

Ooble · May 11th, 2005, 5:31 PM

I would recommend any language apart from Delphi. It should just be allowed to die. Learn C# or Visual Basic .NET instead.

Dietrich · May 28th, 2005, 9:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Ooble

I would recommend any language apart from Delphi. It should just be allowed to die. Learn C# or Visual Basic .NET instead.

Is this marriage to Microsoft going to be a church wedding?

ZenMasterJG · May 28th, 2005, 9:50 AM

C++ will almost certainly be your best friend on this one... and as a hopeless audiophile, i feel the need to tell you to spare no expense on the sound card for the computer, if you have at least a midway decent stereo the sound card is definatly going to be a major bottleneck for your sound quality.

Ooble · May 29th, 2005, 7:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Dietrich

Is this marriage to Microsoft going to be a church wedding?

Heh. 'Tis better than Borland, IMO. Visual Studio .NET is actually not bad. Though I have to say, after re-reading the question, I would agree with ZenMaster - for processor-intensive operations such as this one, you're better off with C/C++.

Rory · Jun 1st, 2005, 2:54 AM

Nah, what's wrong with Delphi?
You'd be using an API of some sort for the processor heavy stuff anyway, optimised in Assembly, (why reinvent the Dunlop F1 wheel) so any language would do.

Ooble · Jun 1st, 2005, 8:00 AM

Because I say so. :p

May 11th, 2005, 2:50 PM	#1
Sumzero Newbie Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	MP3 Player Hello, I have decided to undertake a personal project of intergrating all media in my house. I will be using a 8" touch screen in my living room as the interface. The first thing I wish to do is Build an MP3 player. I want to use my computers HD as the storage but be able to listen to the music from my home theater system.I just need some advice on where to start. I want the GUI to be custom and leave room to eventually get the Touch Screen to have a vid output as well in order to send movie to my TV. Any ideas on how to make this work. (I only have some HTML exp. I dont know much at all about C/C++)After some research I think Delphi would work best for this. Not 100% sure though. Thanks for any help you guys can give me. Thank You Very Much

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Ooble I eat cake for breakfast. Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: In my box. Posts: 4,434 Rep Power: 9	Because I say so. :p __________________ Me :: You :: Them

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May 11th, 2005, 3:31 PM	#3
Sumzero Newbie Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	LOL (go here). This is what I am already doing. How do you think I found this Forum .

May 28th, 2005, 9:50 AM	#6
ZenMasterJG Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 148 Rep Power: 4	C++ will almost certainly be your best friend on this one... and as a hopeless audiophile, i feel the need to tell you to spare no expense on the sound card for the computer, if you have at least a midway decent stereo the sound card is definatly going to be a major bottleneck for your sound quality.

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Rory Expert Programmer Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: London Posts: 542 Rep Power: 4	Nah, what's wrong with Delphi? You'd be using an API of some sort for the processor heavy stuff anyway, optimised in Assembly, (why reinvent the Dunlop F1 wheel) so any language would do.

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