Hi,

I am seeking some programming advice. I have not used many programming languages (I use Flash/Actionscript) but I am fully aware of programming concepts.

Basically, I want to write a program (or use one if it exists!) that will perform the following tasks:

1. Read in an xml file containing the url of up to 8 mp3 files. (language should have this capability e.g. the XML Object in Flash/Actionscript)

2. Read mp3 files (possibly decode to raw audio)and store as an object. (language should have this capability e.g. the Sound object in Flash/Actionscript)

3. Output all sound objects (mp3s) to one single wav/mp3 file

Just as background info, the program will ultimately perform the above functions just as programs such as Audacity, Cubase, etc. allow the user to mixdown or merge multiple audio files into one file.

I would be very grateful for any advice on how this can be achieved.
Please do not hesitate to leave a message if you require more information.

Thanks for looking,

eQuinas

http://mp3wrap.sourceforge.net/ -- takes care of steps 2-3

If i where you, i would try to do it using a shell script, or other language with easy access to script other programs. There are plenty of programs that can encode/decode audio, or combine it. The hard part will be the XML, i know there exists utils to get information from a XML document using xslt's (or whatever they are called) and such, but if you cant, simply choose a language to make a small program to output the filenames, then you can use that in a script leaving other programs to do the other work. Since im to lazy to help out on the XML part, and since i never used any of those utils, ill leave that to you.