[mary-dev] Could AudioPlayer be a interface?

[Marc Schroeder]

I think it is a very good idea to clean up the audio player "corner". 
Yes it is unsatisfactory to have various different audio players. I 
don't particularly care if they are threads or Runnables, as long as 
they play the audio.

Feel free to suggest an interface and to outline how the different 
implementations of audio players could be adapted to implement it:

the freetts audio player;
the MARY audio player (marytts.util.data.audio.AudioPlayer)


The other idea, embedding audio into XML, could you make that clearer 
please? How would you embed binary data into an XML document?

Regards,
Marc

Paulo Levi schrieb:
> I'm trying to do audio streaming, and besides the interface being
> slightly unfriendly (all strings, misdocumented - wrong order and
> number of arguments) i'm having the problem that i've made a my own
> version of the audioplayer (to support pausing) and i can use it in
> the streaming call.
> 
> AudioPlayer should not extend thread, but implement runnable. If
> you're want to allow people to join() it, return the thread
> 
> Besides that i actually think that streamAudio should not create a
> thread, or at least have a variant that doesn't, since i am already
> dividing my speakable tasks into a thread, simply because i don't want
> to block the edt (or any other event thread that this voice can be
> called on).
> 
> On another matter i've thought about a way that you can support
> notifications without another client thread. You could embed the audio
> into a xml file (bettwen the pause information). So that a streaming
> audioplayer would read the next audio - send notification -next audio
> -send notification.
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