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The news is out! The XSPF player does video! As well as loading external links, playlists, and files.
As of now only FLV video is supported, but soon there will be SWF support as well. All controls have been rewritten for video support, though some streaming FLV files (such as YouTube) will not show info or allow searching.
As well as video, there are many additions. An updater has been created to remind the webhost when there is a newer version of player available. This is turned on by passing “setup=1″ in the player URL, and when a newer version is available, an unobtrusive arrow begins to pulse in the bottom right corner of the player.
Radio Mode has been removed and replaced by all around playlist support. Give links between many playlists, or make directories for genre, artist, whatever. Playlists are either XML or XSPF.
Link support has been added to send your customers to any website, or provide urls such as song downloads, contact email links, etc.
All of this has been wrapped together with a new playlist variable, “type”. type can be either music, video, playlist, or link. type should only be used if the location is unusable, or the file is being served dynamically (google video being an example). There is a built in type detect, which will use 95 percent of files correctly.
Contact me with bugs or suggestions at: gojukebox@gmail.com with XSPF in the header.
As well as working on my website (which seems never to be done), I have a list of additions for the XSPF player coming very soon:
I am finishing testing of a Video player, yes thats right, it is no longer just a music player. The new version will also be able to goto any type of link, which is just logical since it is a well organized way to do it. “Special” File types will be FLVs, MP3s, XML, XSPF, and almost all flavors of website. These calls will be processed in their own way, playing FLV and MP3, loading new playlists with XML and XSPF, and loading websites. In addition, a variable passed to the player will force the player to load any file not listed above, such as downloads, clients, mailto links.
An Auto-Update feature will be included, reminding the webhost of new versions. To show the Auto-Update, pass the variable “setup=1″ to the player.
Slim-Player versions are in the works, including time skipping and color.
More customization is on the way, with options to disable any buttons.
A mouseover color, to better see what song you are choosing.
Taking advice from my own book with my old Jukebox, variables will soon be able to be saved in an external file, and called at runtime.
Also, I am considering creating a “Theatre” Version of the player, such as seen on My Stupid Mouth (link not found, may be removed).
Also looking for a place to add duration and total time displays
Yup, you heard right. This update of the player adds color customization to the player, along with a few more tweaks such as the volumelevel variable. Also, according to a quick google search of Lacy Morrow shows that I am best known for my XSPF player version. Hint: Look for a HUGE update soon, I couldn’t hold off throwing out a taste of what’s next.
PS @ Lucas Gonze of Gonze.com
The info_URL function of my player does NOT replace a playlists info Urls, just fills in the blanks.
Alf Eaton has just pointed out to me that the XSPF player was not following the standard xspf format. Instead of artist and song tags, the player now uses creator and title tags. The update has been done and the player will work unchanged minus a few coding additions.
Adobe, since acquiring Macromedia (makers of flash), has been sitting idly, keeping to themselves for a good bit of time. Now they have released Flex 2 beta 2. Flex is a language that is written in MXML, but compiled into SWF files. It is used to build quick, easy, and rich interfaces. It’s script library is enormous, containing the new Actionscript 3 Library and includes API processors for many frequently used web searches. To a flash programmer, Flex is almost cheating, it’s ease of using scripts is astounding. If you have knowledge or interest, you can download Flex here. I have yet to create my first program.
Update: Began messing around with Flex, and it is astonishingly easy to build all kinds of beautiful programs and displays. The big difference in Flash and Flex is the way these things are accomplished and how they are used. To show an XML spreadsheet in Flash, you must create a function to process the data, store everything to variables and then to arrays, then use a component or premade viewer to show your data, let alone letting you search, edit, sort, and organize any of it. Flex accomplishes this beautifully with a few lines of xml code. See Flex Demos.
Viewr Files. Movie, Source, and documentation. See it: here. Read: here. Download it: Viewr.zip
My website is gone. Nothing is wrong with it, it just didn’t suit my needs. A website that embarrasses the guy who makes it may not be the best thing for attracting customers. So for now, you will see this page until I finish the new one. It’s coming along.