Right, so over the last couple of days, I've been making an mp3 player, let's start out with an image.
I had great fun writing this program, it really got me hooked at times, and I'd not notice as the time passed by, I guess that what music can do to you.
It's a splash screen that has some information, like the name of the program, and who it's been made by.
Making a splash screen is very simple, and to make the program know that you have a splash screen, all you have to do is go to the application settings and you can apply your splash screen.
I made this splash screen in Photoshop, didn't take me very long, and i've a novice with photoshop, so everyone should be able to do it.
Next, there is the main screen, this is where you play the music from, you can import songs to your playlist, turn the volume up and down, save and load your playlist. Also you have two buttons in the top right corner, one button (x) will close down the program and show the end splash (will be shown later), the other button (_) will minimize the application to the system tray, and wont fill up your bar at the bottom.
I've made most of this Mp3 player with the WMP object already implemented into the .Net framework, and then I created all the art with Photoshop, I had to get a lot of help from people who made other Mp3 players, especially This Link helped me quite a lot, I had a lot of problems with 2 things, one being the load/save playlist function, and the other being minimize to the tray, the rest of it actually just a walk in the park, all you need to know is the commands to operate the WMP objects, and you are set.
I made it so that the only file extension that can be used is Mp3, I could easily make more extensions use able, but I chose to only make it Mp3, cause if I added the extensions it wouldn't really be a Mp3 Player, but a Music player!
The Now Playing screen will be displayed whenever a track is being played, here you can see the song name and artist, and you can use the search bar to find your favorite moments of your songs, so you wont have to listen all the boring parts.
The now playing screen, consists of 4 things, a background, 2 labels and a track bar, 1 labels to display the song name and 1 to display the artist.
And as you might have guessed, the track bar lets you change to where ever you want in the song.
And here is the end splash screen, which shows when you close the program, thanking you for using the program. Again, this was made with photoshop.
To make the splash show at the end, all I had to do was make it appear, and then with a timer, shut down again, in this case 3500 milliseconds or 3,5 seconds later.
Thanks for reading.
Rasmus Iversen




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