Dynamic merging (mixing, not concatenation) of audio files

Question

I just need to point in the right direction - I can research, knowing the best tools.

The idea is to have a list of sound tracks (guitars, bass, vocals, etc.) that are downloaded by different users. I want the user to be able to choose which tracks to listen to and then dynamically generate a new stream / file of the selected tracks that are being played or downloaded.

I don’t know where to start (use php to select the tracks sent to the flash for playback?), Or am I sending it to the command line function? write java?). This is, in fact, a very simple social network DAW (digital audio workstation).

Thanks
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Answer 1

On the server side, you can use php or java to feed and manage basic audio files (admin).

On the client side, you may need to write a flash application to play these files. I am sure the flash knows about basic mixing.

Basic flash playback is easy to do. You need to learn some ActionScript 3.0 (there are tutorials with script 2.x actions, but they are deprecated since AS 2.x is not compatible with AS 3.x) and you need some design skills to create an interface.

This tutorial can work, there are many resources

http://www.thetechlabs.com/3d/create-a-as3-mp3-player-with-papervision3d-spectrum-display/