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

Do you have any programming experience at all?

Just curious...

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

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?

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.

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++.

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.

Because I say so. :p