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Written by spacedoggy on 2025-01-02 at 19:44

so for those who are coders, amaybe you guys canm help me. I found 2xl tapes on the archive.org, and i want a python program that will first ask me to select a follder containing files called side1.mp3, side2.mp3, side3.mp4, and side4.mp3. Then it will play side1 when it was selected. Now here's where chat gpt failed epicly. When i pressed 2 for side2, all the other tracks should mute, and track2 should mute, but not stop. When 3 and 4 and 1 are pressed, those respective tracks should be unmuted and the ones the nonj respective tracks should be muted. Like when i press 1, 2 3 and 4 must be muted but 1 should be unmuted. Similarely, when i press 3 or 4, tracks 1 2 and 4 should be muted when 3 is pressed, and 3 should be unmuted, and for track4, 1 2 and 3 should be muted and 4 should be unmuted. Remember, they must be muted, not stopped. Anyone up to the challenge?

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Written by Stewart Russell on 2025-01-02 at 20:47

@spacepup This sounds difficult. Finding a cross-platform audio thing that will play MP3 from Python is hard enough.

One option - but not possible with mp3 since it only supports two channels - is have the audio streams mixed into one four-channel file. That way, the other muted tracks will keep playing, but writing a player for this won't be trivial

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Written by spacedoggy on 2025-01-02 at 20:48

@scruss maybe i should just make them ogg files. That might be simpler

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Written by cy on 2025-01-07 at 05:20

That kind of sounds like something a DJ would do, muting and unmuting different sounds to make the music progress. I don't have any experience with DJ equipment (or programs) but maybe... https://mixxx.org/?

It's a bit of a deep dive, people spend years learning how to twiddle those dials right, not just muting and unmuting, but pitch bends, distortion, echo effects, that sort of thing. Probably way more complicated than what you're looking for.

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