Last week I saw a an article by Giles Thomas, who uses a Resolver One spreadsheet to play music.
Play Music in Excel
If it can be done in another spreadsheet, Excel must be able to play music too, so I checked with the most likely suspect, John Walkenbach. Sure enough, he created an Excel midi-player that you can download.
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Duelling Banjos in Excel
John also has a Duelling Banjos Excel player, that he posted on his blog a couple of years ago.
Excel Web Radio
Another way to get music in Excel is with this Excel Web Radio Streaming sample file, created by Harald Staff.
Harald’s web radio Excel workbook is small (47 kb), and easy to use.
To get the Excel file, and start your own music station, go to the Harald Staff Sample Files page in my Contextures site.
Music Playlist Creator
Even if you’re not musically gifted, you can still use Excel to help you enjoy your music collection.
Dave Peterson has created an Excel Music Playlist Creator that you can download.
The code in Dave’s workbook creates a playlist of music from a selected folder, and puts it on your desktop.
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Duelling banjos? That’s fantastic!
I knew there was a reason to sort out a polyphonic version of my Resolver One sheet 🙂
Giles, that sounds like a great project for this weekend. 😉