I've been working on a simple cross-platform alarm clock application in Python. I took the time to learn wxPython for the frontend, and figured there would be some backend for decoding mp3s to play at alarm time. So far, I have found 3 viable options.
1) pyMedia, which works great, but only works on Windows XP and Linux, and not MacOSX 2) pyGame, which seems to lack the needed SDL_mixer support for pygame.music 3) wx.MediaCtrl, which supposedly works on Windows and MacOSX, but not Linux So, I began to look for a pure Python MP3 decoder. To my surprise, there was not one implementation to be found. Is Python too slow for a pure Python MP3 decoder? I would like to help in getting something like this started. Unfortunately, I have almost no knowledge of the underlying MP3 algorithm. I know that there is a MP3 decoder written in pure Java, called javazoom, which could be drawn from heavily. I have begun taking that code and porting it to Python, but what I really need is an someone who is experienced who can help me out with some of the implementation details. If anyone knows of another project like this, an alternative that I haven't found yet, or has experience in mp3 decoding, please respond with your thoughts. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
