Music Player Editor

Area of Focus: Tools Programming

Engine/Tools: Unity

Time of Development: 2 Weeks

Goals:

"What if I could enjoy my music without ever leaving the engine?"

This random thought sparked the idea for an Editor Music Player, a Unity Editor tool that lets developers upload and play their favorite tracks directly in the Unity Editor, preventing application switching.

References:

Prototyping to Editor Scripting:

Prototype

Final

Song Importing and Editing:

Importing any MP3 file within a folder to the editor

Drag-and-drop feature

Add, Organize, or Remove Songs at any time

Music Player Editor

Area of Focus: Tools Programming

Engine/Tools: Unity

Time of Development: 2 Weeks

Goals:

Practice Unity Editor scripting. (Specifically UnityGUI and Editor Windows)

Learn how to extract MP3 (or any type of) files from the File Explorer into the engine.

Design a pleasing visual player that replicates the experience of using mainstream music services.

"What if I could enjoy my music without ever leaving the engine?"

This random thought sparked the idea for an Editor Music Player, a Unity Editor tool that lets developers upload and play their favorite tracks directly in the Unity Editor, preventing application switching.

References:

To script a music player, I first wanted to gather UI references from other music platforms, such as Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and Pandora. I aimed to design a UI layout that would be familiar to users of music streaming apps.

Prototyping to Editor Scripting:

Prototype

Final

Song Importing and Editing:

Once the inspector was implemented, I used the Editor Window to create a playlist editor to manage user-entered songs. It needs to support tasks such as reordering the track list, adding or removing songs, and importing music files into Unity.

Importing any MP3 file within a folder to the editor

Drag-and-drop feature

Add, Organize, or Remove Songs at any time

Music Player Editor

Area of Focus: Tools Programming

Engine/Tools: Unity

Time of Development: 2 Weeks

Goals:

Practice Unity Editor scripting.​ (Specifically UnityGUI and Editor Windows)

Learn how to extract MP3 (or any type of) files from the File Explorer into the engine.

Design a pleasing visual player that replicates the experience of using mainstream music services.

"What if I could enjoy my music without ever leaving the engine?" This random thought sparked the idea for an Editor Music Player, a Unity Editor tool that lets developers upload and play their favorite tracks directly in the Unity Editor, preventing application switching.

References:

To script a music player, I first wanted to gather UI references from other music platforms, such as Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and Pandora. I aimed to design a UI layout that would be familiar to users of music streaming apps.​

Prototyping to Editor Scripting:

Prototype

Final

Song Importing and Editing:

Once the inspector was implemented, I used the Editor Window to create a playlist editor to manage user-entered songs. It needs to support tasks such as reordering the track list, adding or removing songs, and importing music files into Unity. ​

Importing any MP3 file within a folder to the editor

Drag-and-drop feature

Add, Organize, or Remove Songs at any time

Practice Unity Editor scripting. (Specifically UnityGUI and Editor Windows)

"What if I could enjoy my music without ever leaving the engine?"

This random thought sparked the idea for an Editor Music Player, a Unity Editor tool that lets developers upload and play their favorite tracks directly in the Unity Editor, preventing application switching.

To script a music player, I first wanted to gather UI references from other music platforms, such as Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and Pandora. I aimed to design a UI layout that would be familiar to users of music streaming apps.

Once the inspector was implemented, I used the Editor Window to create a playlist editor to manage user-entered songs. It needs to support tasks such as reordering the track list, adding or removing songs, and importing music files into Unity.