Day 27

Hours worked/Total: 13/84

Day Recap

Fully transitioned to new audio library, rewrote the audio player with sampling, and attempted to recreate a waveform display. Faced major challenges adapting example code to the MVVM architecture, leading to whole day of suffering.

What I Did

• Ditched old audio library completely:
  • Fully committed to new audio library, rewriting the audio player to use sampling for better performance.
• Tried to implement a waveform visualization:
  
  • Copied example code from WPF samples to adapt it for Avalonia.
  • Faced frustration trying to refactor the code into an MVVM-friendly structure—bindings refused to pass data properly.
  • Eventually moved the variable with event handlers to the code-behind since it manipulates the canvas directly.
  • The waveform finally displayed, but now loading feels slow because it renders waveform pixel by pixel

Remarks

I hit a wall today.

Trying to force WPF example codes into Avalonia’s MVVM structure felt like fitting a square peg in a round hole.

Bindings not working, data not passing, UI not updating—it was a mess.

After hours of frustration, I just gave up on doing it the “proper” MVVM way and moved the logic to the code-behind. It’s not elegant, but at least it works… sort of.

The waveform now loads, but it’s slow, and honestly, I’m just too tired to care today.

Next Goals

Add audio scrubbing.