Analyzing Music in Java [closed]

Question

Greetings!

I was wondering if it's possible to make music-based games in Java? I've played games like Beat Hazzard and Audiosurf and stuff like that and I was considering making one like that - that dynamically loads songs the user selects and finds pieces of information (like bass notes) and does something in return.

I don't even know where to start, but I have found ways to play music (through certain classes others provide or the Java Sound API). Anybody ever done anything like this before? Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Of course it is. I think the term you should be Googling for is Java Signal Processing and analysis.

There is a related SO post on this as well as numerous other Java libraries and source examples (see the Google search results from above.) Here is a page with applets that perform a variety of signal analysis. Might not be exactly what you need but should be a start. And MARF, from the SO post mentioned above, looks VERY promising!