Free AS3 package: MP3Playback

When Flex 2 came into beta, I wrote an online mp3 player application called FlexAmp. The application let you play songs from an online Box.net storage account and and used the ID3 info to load related content from Flickr, YouTube and Amazon.com. Mike Chambers later did a desktop application using AIR called Ascension that also mashed up your music with the sources mentioned(but I still want to claim first rights over the idea, plus I did remote storage 😉 ).

Just for nostalgia, here are some pics of what it looked like:

Anyway, a lot of people have asked me to release the source code for the application but the code (like the code for most of my weekend projects) is fairly messy. But I will try to release some of the core code as I get around to cleaning it up.

This blog entry links to the MP3Playback class which did all the playback for that project. I took some time to make the api pretty clean and similar to the Flex VideoDisplay class. I also wrote a quick example showing how the class can be used. The one interesting feature of this class is also the ability to fade out the song at any time. Not really rocket science, but nice to have anyway ;).

I hope this class helps someone with a project. If you find this class useful or find a bug, please leave a comment here and I’ll try to fix it.

The application can be found here. Please right click to view source.

Author: Arpit Mathur

Arpit Mathur is a Principal Engineer at Comcast Labs where he is currently working on a variety of topics including Machine Learning, Affective Computing, and Blockchain applications. Arpit has also worked extensively on Android and iOS applications, Virtual Reality apps as well as with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML and Ruby on Rails. He also spent a couple of years in the User Experience team as a Creative Technologist. View all posts by Arpit Mathur