Update October 2012: Wooohooo! Brendan Eich just announced on his blog that work for MP3 and H264 support in Firefox is underway. You can track the work on BugZilla: Support H.264/AAC/MP3 video/audio playback on desktop Firefox Update February 2013: After much heavy lifting from Firefox developer Chris Pearce, this patch flips the switch to enable … Read more
Edit: Answer updated to reflect changes in recent versions of NAudio It’s possible using the NAudio open source .NET audio library I have written. It looks for an ACM codec on your PC to do the conversion. The Mp3FileReader supplied with NAudio currently expects to be able to reposition within the source stream (it builds … Read more
I also recommend ffmpeg, but the command line suggested by John Boker has an unintended side effect: it re-encodes the file to the default bitrate (which is 64 kb/s in the version I have here at least). This might give your customers a false impression of the quality of your sound files, and it also … Read more
Java FX has Media and MediaPlayer classes which will play mp3 files. Example code: String bip = “bip.mp3”; Media hit = new Media(new File(bip).toURI().toString()); MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer(hit); mediaPlayer.play(); You will need the following import statements: import java.io.File; import javafx.scene.media.Media; import javafx.scene.media.MediaPlayer;
Your best bet would be using the RFC defined mime-type audio/mpeg.
I used eyeD3 the other day with a lot of success. I found that it could add artwork to the ID3 tag which the other modules I looked at couldn’t. You’ll have to install using pip or download the tar and execute python setup.py install from the source folder. Relevant examples from the website are … Read more
Thirding TagLib Sharp. TagLib.File f = TagLib.File.Create(path); f.Tag.Album = “New Album Title”; f.Save();