ImpAmp

ImpsPlayerThing

This is a "program" writen within a web page do aid improverts noise boys with playing sounds at a moments notice. The idea is that you can assign a mp3 file to a letter on the keyboard then pressing that letter instantly starts that song. Support for pages has been added so you can have games theams in page one, emergancy traks in page 2 sound effects in page 3 etc. The program has been written within a web page to make it easy to use on different systems/computers. All you need is firefox and flash installed with javascript enabled.

Currently an alpha/demo/proof of concept is available at http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~s0453136/imps

Current Fetures

Basic functionality works, perssing a letter of clicking will start or stop/reset it

A stop all function has been added with the space bar

Track title has been added to buttons Via ID3 data

Support for seperat pages has been added though only 2 have been enabled

Wanted Features/ToDo List

Create a defalt setup with games, sound effects, emergancy tracks all pre-queued (for offline versions)

Remove songs from the web version to ease download yet provide an online example

Ability to queue tracks (I wanted to pause when you clicked the proggress bar but that isn't easily posible - looking at alternatives)

Add your own files easaly via a GUI

Posibly add volume controle? or just leave that to operating systems and the sound desk?

Names

do we stick with ImpsPlayerThing or shorten to IPT? Here are alist of potental other (feel free to add)

ImpsPlayer

ImpsJukeBox -- IJB

ImpsBox

impTunes

impamp

noisyimp

any others?

Discuss

Under the Bonnet

The program is uses flash to play music controled by javascript. The 2 are merged using soundmanager2 which provides a API to doso. SoundManager2 is relesed under the BSD licence which states that anyone can use it (without warety of any kind) for any purpous as long as if the code is edited, it must be provided free of charge and must be relesed under the same licence.

The page is based on the drumkit demo found at http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/demo/mpc/

I have edited the soundmanager API slightly to suit my needs however I havent hidden it from the world

Thanks to Scott Schiller - http://www.schillmania.com