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I am trying to create a music player that will read any song file the user wishes to select, and I want to be able to display the song name in my music player. I am wondering how I am able to do this.

For example, if my user selects the song: Eminem_Superman.mp3, I am wondering if it is possible for MaxMSP to be able to know the song name and to be able to display it in the print object.

I am trying to create a music player that will read any song file the user wishes to select, and I want to be able to display the song name in my music player. I am wondering how I am able to do this. 

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> For example, if my user selects the song: Eminem_Superman.mp3, I am

> wondering if it is possible for MaxMSP to be able to know the song

> name and to be able to display it in the print object.

Out of your subject, it looks you're only concerned about the file name. 

That certainly is possible, if you can play it you need to know the file 

Another issue is to read in mp3 tags, that could be done with 

jit.qt.movie... you can also play mp3's with that object in combination 

with spigot~. But you would need a jitter license for that...

But if you think it's easy to extract out of a filename the part that 

means a performer, and the part that is associated to a song name, that 

is a different issue. Usually you assume a certain rule, the rule you 

use personally. That works for private patches. If you want to address a 

bigger audience you should assume that your assumption is most likely 

I would assume in your example that Eminem is the song name and 

_Superman is the performer, in that case its pretty obvious as there is 

no performer named Eminem in the world I know... ;-)

jOn schrieb:
> For example, if my user selects the song: Eminem_Superman.mp3, I am
> wondering if it is possible for MaxMSP to be able to know the song
> name and to be able to display it in the print object.

Out of your subject, it looks you're only concerned about the file name. 
That certainly is possible, if you can play it you need to know the file 
name anyway...

Another issue is to read in mp3 tags, that could be done with 
jit.qt.movie... you can also play mp3's with that object in combination 
with spigot~. But you would need a jitter license for that...

But if you think it's easy to extract out of a filename the part that 
means a performer, and the part that is associated to a song name, that 
is a different issue. Usually you assume a certain rule, the rule you 
use personally. That works for private patches. If you want to address a 
bigger audience you should assume that your assumption is most likely 
wrong...

I would assume in your example that Eminem is the song name and 
_Superman is the performer, in that case its pretty obvious as there is 
no performer named Eminem in the world I know... ;-)

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