Editing Music Player

Quite a few people have released the schematics and source code for their music player.
Such open-source music players include:

== at Open Circuits ==

* [[TRAXMOD]] Digital Audio Player

== elsewhere ==

''Some of these web sites are very difficult to post comments to. I suppose posting comments about these music players here -- at Open Circuits -- is the next best thing.''

== MP3 players by Raphael Abrams ==

[http://walrus.com/~raphael/html/eejump.html MP3 players by Raphael Abrams] has designed and released the designs and has [http://www.teuthis.com/html/kits.html kits for 3 MP3 players]:

* MAKE: Daisy MMC/SD Mp3 Player
* The [http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/08/open_source_mp3_player_kit_sak.html “Sakura”] MMC Mp3 Player
* The Super Simple (Compact Flash Card) Mp3 Player

=== EchoMp3 ===

* [http://www.techdesign.be/projects/020/020.htm EchoMp3] is a small DIY* MP3 player. Up to 4 GB SD card; uses 18LF452 or 18LF458; Full user control (volume, track, pause, skip, directory) with a 5-way micro joystick; VS1002D MP3 decoder chip.

=== Daisy MP3 player ===

Daisy MP3 Player Kit: Open Source MP3 Player Kit
http://makezine.com/daisy/
http://www.teuthis.com/html/daisy_mp3.html
''(photo from [http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/01/make_daisy_mp3_1.html Make Zine blog ])''
uses:
* Microchip PIC18F45j10
* VS1011 from VLSI, Finland. It is an .mp3 and .wav decoder chip, a DAC, and a headphone amplifier all in one 28 pin package.

=== "The Super-Simple pocket size mp3 player" ===

"simplest possible MP3 setup"
by Raphael Abrams.
Completely open source.
http://teuthis.com/html/mp3.html
Based on the PIC 16LF877, 
uses the vs1001k decoder chip
uses compact flash cards
(with standard MP3 files in standard FAT32 format)
"around $100 in parts for a 128MB setup ... no display"
2 versions of the source code, one in assembly, one in C.

=== The Sakura, the World’s Simplest Open Source DIY MP3 player ===

The Sakura, the World’s Simplest Open Source DIY MP3 player.
by Raphael Abrams.
All the source and schematics are here for free as part of the Creative Commons.
http://www.teuthis.com/html/mmc_mp3.html
"around $30 in parts and a good amount of patience (not including the MMC card)"
FAT32 support
WAV files are also supported
Based on the PIC 16LF88
uses the VS1011 decoder chip.
Source code is in C.

=== Juicebox ===

"Juicebox is a design (code and hardware) for a small ATMEGA128 system which can be used for mp3 playback and general tasks. It includes MMC card (multimedia card) and FAT filesystem support and is written for GNU tools."
Uses VS1001 MP3 Decoder.
Supports 4x12 cell phone LCD or a small E Ink panel.
"a pocket size MP3 player, a bit smaller than a business card in footprint, and about 9mm thick."
by Holly Gates, Becky Moran, Brian Hone.

* http://positron.org/projects/juicebox/
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/juicebox/

=== PIC audio player ===

People at the Microchip PIC forum are batting around ideas:
[http://forum.microchip.com/tm.aspx?m=166133 dsPic audio player],
[http://forum.microchip.com/tm.aspx?m=166337 data compression techniques],
[http://forum.microchip.com/tm.aspx?m=162048 saving an audio file to a memory].

=== MPic ===

* http://mpic3.com/downloads/ "Mpic3": Source Code in CCS PIC C and has Compact Flash and FAT16 code within it; schematic and PCB. Based on Microchip PIC18F452 and VLSI VS1001K MP3 CODEC IC.

===MintyMP3===
MP3 player in an Altoids can.
includes FM transmitter.
Uses compact flash card (reads FAT16), PIC18F452, STA013 mp3 decoder chip, FT232 USB chip.
"compact flash card. ... Cheaper & faster than multimedia cards (MMC) and can be accessed via a PCMCIA slot, as all PC laptops have, using a $5 adaptor (although you can read/write using the Java program MintyComm program talking through the serial port)"
http://ladyada.net/make/minty/
(There's a nice forum [http://forums.ladyada.net here] for discussing this).

==="MP3 Player"===
http://www.microsyl.com/mp3/mp3.html
based on Atmel AVR
... The MP3 decoder is a VS1001k ...
The USB interface is done via FT232MB ...
... standard hard drive with MP3s stored in FAT
...
includes Infrared bi-directional interface
...
includes source code in C.



===Yet Another Mobile MP3 Player===
http://www.bobblick.com/techref/projects/yammp3/yammp3.html
"basically a personal computer that runs in a car"
(runs Linux)

===BookPC Car MP3 Player===
http://www.bobblick.com/techref/projects/mp3book/mp3book.html
"a computer I built for my car"
(runs Linux)

=== MP3Car ===
"MP3Car.Com - Home of the Car Computer Forums - Build your own Carputer"
http://mp3car.com/

=== MP3 Player ===
http://www.codepuppies.com/~ben/sens/pic/mp3/
(open-source hardware and software)
"the MAS3507D chip, from Micronas Intermetall, ... You simply clock a serial MP3 bitstream in one side, and digital audio gets clocked out of the other side."
So, we have
* Microchip PIC in the middle
* IDE interface (supports *both* hard drive *and* CD drive)
* MAS3507D chip ... to analog amplifiers ... out to headphone jack
* IR remote control.
* parallel port ... to PC, for downloading MP3s.

Stores the MP3s on the hard drive in a funky (but well documented) proprietary format,
to simplify the PIC playback code.

=== butterfly MP3 ===
An open design for a portable MP3 player. 
It is designed to be easy / possible to make for a beginner and cheap as well.
An AVR Butterfly is used to simplify construction and minimise component count. The decoding is handled by a VS1001 decoder/DAC/amplifier.
The design supports the original Butterfly LCD as well as NOKIA 3310 cell phone displays. The project includes PCBs in eagle format for the player and also
an adapter board to replace the original LCD of the Butterfly with a BW Nokia 3310 or Color Nokia 6100 display.
The player uses MMC cards with a standard FAT16 file system. ( Rev. F PCB now uses SD/MMC cards)

http://butterflymp3.sourceforge.net/rev05Nokia02_TN.jpg

http://butterflymp3.sourceforge.net/

=== DSPdap - DSP based Digital Audio (MP3) Player ===
Hardware and firmware for a DSP based digital audio MP3 player with USB pen drive funtionality. This player uses a a 16-bit fixed point DSP (Texas Instruments TMS320 C55x) and CompactFlash card.

DSPdap is different from other MP3 player projects because it uses a programmable DSP as its CPU instead of using a microcontroller and a hardware MP3 decoder chip. Because of this, it is capable of playing not only MP3 but all popular digital audio formats (i.e. WMA, Ogg, RealAudio, etc) as and when the software is written to do so. Currently only MP3 supported.

This is an open source and open hardware MP3 player project. Full schematics and source code available.

http://dspdap.sourceforge.net

===yampp: Yet another MP-3 Player===
http://myplace.nu/mp3/

=== yampp Industrial III ===

The "SPE020 MP3 Player"
http://rev-ed.co.uk/picaxe/software.htm
, when you look at the .pdf, says in big letters
"yampp Industrial III
http://www.yampp.com/ "
and in smaller, hard-to-read letters, something like "Jesper Hansen -- 2003" (?).


=== CarPuter ===
[http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/CarPuter NSLU2-based CarPuter]
seems to use less power than other Linux-based MP3 players. (?)

=== [http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/RockboxPlayer Rockbox Player] ===
Project to design and build a Free/Open hardware audio player and recorder, for use with RockBox firmware.
Based on AT91SAM9260, ARM926EJ-S processor and in Rockbox, an open source firmware for mp3 players, written from scratch since year 2001.
Rockbox firmware support for over 15 Sound Codecs, including OGG and FLAC. It's written in C, using Free Software tools as GCC-ARM C compiler.

== iPod ? ==

"Open Source Hardware"
http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/open-source-hardware
"The Bill of Materials for the 30 GB Video iPod from Jefferies &
Company's Video iPod Teardown is fascinating."
http://www.tuaw.com/2005/10/19/stock-brokers-crack-open-an-ipod-5g-so-you-dont-have-to/



== wishlist ==

(Are these reasonable desires, or is this a "I want a pony" wishlist?)

From
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/11/16/1151244.shtml

MD applications (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 16, @12:59PM EST (#54)

It's a bummer that what they're really selling is just a MD recorder and some software.
I was hoping that somebody would have wised up
and made a MD player that could decode the MP3 format.
If some engineer out there wants to make money,
build me a data audio player based on the MD format.
Support MP3, ATRAC, WMA, SDMI, and all those other acronyms in hardware,
and make it so it uses off-the-shelf MDs and you've got yourself a market.
Throw in a USB adapter for data transfer, and you'll have a true hybrid device.

But since others have seen fit to comment on the impending death of the MD format,
let me suggest that there are still plenty of potential applications
for a MD like storage system.

For example, consider the handheld video game market.
Maybe Sony should leverage their Playstation enterprise
to produce a portable Playstation based on MDs.
You could save your games in a non-volatile format,
and with the extra data space games could have voice clips
and maybe even a real soundtrack!
With some intelligent caching strategies,
the disc motor wouldn't need to turn all the time,
which would preserve the battery life.
Imagine a handheld device with more data space than most Nintendo 64 games,
but still small enough to fit in your pocket.

Or what about a MD drive that interfaces to your Palm Pilot.
You could offload your memos and notes or backup your address book
without having to connect back to a computer.
Need to copy your friends notes from that important business meeting
but don't have enough free space?
Just have them dump it to a spare disc.
My point is, you can never have enough storage space,
especially when it's rewriteable.
For their size, the Minidisc format is a good storage system.

MP3 and E-Text (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 16, @02:06PM EST (#73)

Someone has to build a E-Book which uses E-texts that include both text and recorded voice.
It would offer a screen and headphones.
You could then switch between reading and listening as needed.
(Read on the bus, listen while walking between the bus stop and the office.)
You could read and listen at the same time.
And it might be handy if you want to review what was just said without interrupting.

Text-To-Voice wouldn't work as well,
since a good reader can make a world of difference.
I'd rather listen to Christopher Walken reading Poe's The Raven than a computer.
(Actually, though, Text-To-Voice would be a nice option
for texts which haven't been recorded by a professional.
For example, your own notes.)




== discussion ==


Rather than commercially selling yet another MP3 player,
I am
more interested in commercially selling something that has almost
identical hardware, but does something that none of these do.
--[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 15:28, 25 April 2006 (PDT)

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The article
[http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64963,00.html "High-Tech Hearing Bypasses Ears"]
by Laila Weir begins: "A wristwatch phone that lets you listen by sticking a finger in your ear, an MP3 player that vibrates the bones in your skull to play music that only you can hear ..."
So how does this "bone-conduction technology" work?

That article also mentions that "student ... Sam James created Soundwaves -- an underwater MP3 player".


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[http://xess.com/faq/M0000141.HTM MP3 decoding on a FPGA ?]

[http://www.standardics.nxp.com/support/documents/microcontrollers/pdf/an10583.pdf AN10583: "Realizing an MP3 player with the LPC2148], using libmad and EFSL"
Rev. 01 — 18 April 2007 Application note[http://www.nxp.com/acrobat_download/applicationnotes/AN10583_1.pdf]


Open-source MP3 decoders include:
* [http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/ MAD: MPEG Audio Decoder] on [http://sourceforge.net/projects/mad/ sourceforge: MAD]: "performs especially well on systems without native floating-point support." (I think this includes "libmad").
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpg123/ sourceforge: mpg123]: "uses floating point math (unlike libmad)."
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/hardmad/ sourceforge: HardMad] "hardware mp3 decoder. Written in SystemC."



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* [http://lehmayr.de/e_mrmidi.htm Mr. Midi 2]: free open source; "Lyrics are displayed (when contained in MIDI file)"; SD card bootloader for ATmega168; ... put MIDI files on a SD card, plug the card in, and use the LCD screen and buttons under it to choose a file to play.