Audio player controlled by hand

catalinmacovei 2014-05-19 19:57:03 UTC #1

Hello everyone. The idea to make an mp3 player and to design gestures to control it, seemed a great one. So I started to work on it (in my spare time, after work) and here it is. I made a short movie using this app, if you would like to watch and give a feedback about it, would be great. Any opinion is welcome, good or bad.

Watch the app in action here: Youtube link

Zappierchris 2014-05-20 20:34:21 UTC #2

It looks cool ! I can't find it on airspace though, so I have some questions;

Does it use SDK 2? The video didn't say and it's not on airspace for me. My other question is, can it get music from websites like youtube and soundcloud or only downloaded files?

witnessgem 2014-05-21 01:45:10 UTC #3

Wow.... It's really cool!!

catalinmacovei 2014-05-21 04:53:42 UTC #4

Hello Zappierchris, it uses the SDK 1. It is done using C# and is only an mp3 player, doesn't support other formats (at least for now). You need downloaded / purchased mp3 files, no Youtube, no Soundclud (although nice ideea to integrate Youtube and Soundcloud in it, if possible). In the near future I will try to make another version with a few functions extra. I was concentration more on making the hand controlling as little frustrating as possible. I'm glad you like it, thanks.

It is in process of being uploaded to Airspace.

Zappierchris 2014-05-22 20:17:49 UTC #5

Cool ! I think i'll look forward to some form of WAV support and then i'll be able to play most of the songs I own. On making hand controlling 'less' frustrating, SDK 2 has much improved hand tracking. Although I think there is a pinch bug in the current version.

I can't wait to see this on Airspace.

witnessgem 2014-05-26 16:04:27 UTC #7

Hello catalinmacovei. I'm student in Korea. I interested about leap motion, and I'm trying to make a leap motion with mp3 player. If I don't bother you, you can give your coding ? It just use for my homework, and not commercial.
If you help me, I'm so happy

p.s. I don't use SDK1. I'm using processing tool(java). It just use for reference.

catalinmacovei 2014-05-26 17:22:55 UTC #8

Well yes. If you want to play mp3 files, just look at MusicPlayer.cs file, all you need is there. Also look for some tutorials, is nothing special. If you want the gesture part, look into Program.cs file. I don't use the built-in gesture detection of Leap driver, I just use the basic data returned by driver, like X-Y-Z finger position, number of fingers, hands, etc, and do my own processing and gesture determination. I did not included the User Interface part , just the code behind.

The code is really crappy, I hope you will understand something. Enjoy.

witnessgem 2014-05-27 01:34:43 UTC #9

Thanks to answered my question. You're very kind.

agilita 2014-05-28 20:57:14 UTC #10

Very interesting application I like it.

Samarth 2014-05-29 10:24:32 UTC #11

@catalinmacovei Your application is really nice

I am doing a project on leap motion too and trying to create a similar kind of audio system to be embedded in vehicles.
I would really be grateful if u can provide me with some pseudo code with a brief overview for the audio controller that u built
Thanks a lot

catalinmacovei 2014-05-29 16:23:54 UTC #12

I am glad you all like it. Unfortunately it will not be in Airspace because I didn't respect some of the rules required to be accepted, it has some bugs and I rushed to release it. Anyway, you can find it in the link below. Please don't be mad at me if it crashes, all I want is to give it a try. Just unzip it and launch like any other Windows app. Thanks

WaveBox download