This is a small library of code-pieces that I find useful when developing tools and applications around handling of audio, playing sound, downloading audio from certain websites, ...
Here an (incomplete) list of bits and pieces in this lib:
- A simple AudioPlayer interface and implementations via JLayer, MP3/OGG-SPI and TarsosDSP libraries
- Interfaces for buffering audio data in a flexible SeekableRingBuffer
- Downloading ranges of audio-streams from local files or HTTP
- Accessing information about sessions of the Austrian radio station FM4
- An implementation of the SeekableRingBuffer which also provides persisting to disk
- A system for playing sound at different tempo via the TarsosDSP libraries for stretching/condensing audio on-the-fly
- A basic Stream class for holding information about streams that are played
- Extensions to PipedInputStream which help with clearing and flushing the internal buffer
There is also a simple commandline audio-player ExamplePlayer which shows how to use the components to
provide proper buffered playback of audio from either local files or audio streams fetched via HTTP.
The SeekableRingBuffer and it's implementations are at the core of some of my audio applications, they allow to have a full-featured ring-buffer for audio-data in the application and for example have one thread fetch the audio data from somewhere, e.g. from a file or from an HTTP download or a live stream of some radio-station. Another thread can read from the stream and handle sending the audio to the local player.
This way fetching the audio-data and playing it are nicely decoupled with flexible buffering which not only allows playing the live audio (with only a small lag), but also allows to skip forward and backwards in the buffered audio.
Reading will wait if the buffer is full, i.e. if reading is faster than writing (which it usually should be).
For live-streams, naturally reading will be as fast as playing, but previously read data will still be available for skipping backwards.
Writing will wait for new data if the buffer is empty, i.e. if writing is faster, which may indicate some problem with the stream or a slow internet connection.
Via this buffering and the support for playing audio at different speed you can build some very powerful applications, e.g. playing a radio-station, but allowing the user to skip forward/backward, e.g. to skip across ads or if the content is not interesting.
You can play the audio a bit slower if the play-position is near the "head" of the buffer or playing a bit faster if the play position is at the "tail", thus ensuring that over time there is always some buffer available for skipping back and forward a few minutes.
compile 'org.dstadler:commons-audio:1.+'
git clone git://github.com/centic9/commons-audio
cd commons-audio
./gradlew check jacocoTestReport
./gradlew --console=plain release && ./gradlew closeAndReleaseRepository
- This should automatically release the new version on MavenCentral
- Afterwards go to the Github releases page and add release-notes
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- commons-audio is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License.