Xspf Jukebox 5.9

thanks a lot mate! with every new version it seems it will be great! it would be very nice to see some simple effects in later versions

I’d love to hear any ideas you have, what did you have in mind?

Hey, I just stumbled across your player and think it’s great (currently using the original from Fabricio Zuardi). However, I can’t seem to get it to NOT fade in when a song starts. I tried messing with the crossFade parameter, but it doesn’t seem to fix it - and in fact using the false value seems to turn off the sound altogether. Is the fade-in by design? Are you aware of any problems?

Morrow,
I LOST 3 HOURS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY THE SKINS WOULD NOT CHANGE. skin_url looks for the folder and not the /folder/file.xml and this caused me much distress. Please make notation somewhere on the documentation or skin documentation, that others dont have the same hastles.
Cal

well the documentation for skin_url says “url of the skin folder”, but in the next revision it will allow for either

Lacy,
What threw me is that I had seen a skin.xml file renamed elsewhere. I now understand that this would have never worked.
Cal

Lacy,

Yours is the best player available, and feedback/customer support here is tops; a very pleasant experience.

You asked for suggestions.

1. Please program the current arrowdown image as a download button.
2. Please program some sort of small logo image for your version of the player, instead of that “@”, and make this “credit” image visible and mandatory on all skins.
3. The track info button, please program some sort of image for that.

No rush, just asking….

Cal

Lacy,
Also, the text disappears for download and info when player is stopped, but rectangles remain: Changing to images would fix this, will look much better.
Cal

can I use this thing on a wordpress blog ?… i use payed hosting and payed domain name… it should work, right ?

Lacy,

Your original skin, if I click any song or track, the top song plays and not the one I click, unless I double or triple click. Is there any way around this?

Is it “startbutton” which is doing this? Is this tied to the resume song feature thing that is going on?

Cal

sure will, thats my setup as well

The startbutton is what makes you have to double click, but you can set autoplay to true to fix it

Recommend to change the skin page to have a thumbnail of each skin over the link, with view/download stats, like a gallery:

Click the thumb here and you’ll see stats:
http://tinyurl.com/ysk83j

Similar layout here:
http://tinyurl.com/29agoz

And here:
http://tinyurl.com/29sohv

Cal

is it possible to pause a video once it loads? and also rewind?

Something like:

myVideo.autoRewind = true;
myStream.pause();

You can pause the video, and it rewinds automatically when stopped, is that what you were asking?

Can it load a video and then pause at the beginning? Showing only the first frame. The same w/ rewind. Can it rewind and pause at the beginning after a video ends?

Lacy,
Sweetz just made me realize that the playlist track image or thumbnail for any flv file never shows up, never has a chance. He/she may need to set an image in the embed tag, for the entire playlist as a workaround, but mine does not always load in IE; does in FF.
Cal

Lacy,

Are you aware that variables.txt will not work if the ampersands are encoded to &? I recommend either adding this functionality or a notation to your instructions file.

Are you aware that variable.txt will not load in IE 6? It loads in FF and Opera, but not in IE6, no matter what I do.

(&autoload=true&autoplay=true)
http://sirmikey.com/music/skinner.html

Cal

Correction: It now loads in IE6 after clearing cache.

these are all good ideas, next revision

hi Lacy,

A little idea for the next revision: add a parameter to control the target attribute of the info button link. Currently, the info button always opens in a new (i.e. “_blank”) window. It would be great to instead be able to target the current (”_self”) window.

Thanks!
Leigh

Hi Lacy,

Discovered your excellent player a couple of days ago!
I’m actually using it on my Wii to play the music on my PC (combined with Wiideo Center).
Yesterday I tried to implement the WiiCade Flash API to control your player with the Wii Remote. I got the nextTrack, prevTrack functions working. But I ran into problems with the playTrack function.
I assume the function is used to pauze and resume the current number. But when trying this with the spacebar (with your online test) the song doesn’t pauze.
When ‘resuming’ the song the time indicator starts blinking NaN.

I also tried to control the volume (with remote +/- buttons) but I couldn’t get that to work with my feeble coding attempts.
Looking at the code that must be possible somehow (volumeChange)?

Anyway, thanks for your excellent work on this player. You’ve made me a very happy Wii owner!

Greetz from the Netherlands,

sorry, i’ve played the Wii but i don’t have one for myself, so for now, any Wii functions are as-is

ViFull screen mode for video, please!:-)

got it, ditto @ Leigh

Lacy,
hoverMessage= variable fouls/kills the following functions:

1. Volumedisplay
2. Scrollbutton
3. Loadbar
4. timebar
5. trackdisplay

Lacy-

First, thanks for your great work on the player. I have more of a coding question than a design question here. Do you know if it’s possible to target a frame using the “info” button in the xspf player. Not being a code wiz… I’d like to have the player in the top frame ( ) of the frameset “prodframes.html” and have the info for each playlist track open a new html doc in the bottom frame ( ).

Currently, the info tag in the xspf playlist contains an absolute url and opens a new browser window.

Thanks for your advice.

hello lacy, been sometime; sorry for a late reply; from my first comment i told about seeing some effects would be nice..what on my mind is;
simple fade in/out effects and similar effects that i can use(plug) with vector buttons. it would also be very nice to see a resizable players, the skin file looks like a css, i mean maybe there can be something like using percents for widths heights etc,

i am really far away from flash applications,so i dont know the restrictions of the program, another wish of me is:
i am grabbing a huge kind of playlist file, in this playlist some mp3 links are death,i remove these death links via php, but its on server side, if this player can do this for me it will be on client side, and by this way, server will never overloaded..what i am trying to tell is, can this player process and remove death links from playlists? (at least it will be great,if player not stucked and pass the other song,when it finds a death link). thanx a lot lacy
all the best

Gecko,
The link is in the swf, which makes it popup to whole page. Another option is to overlay an html link over the player using css. I think that this would work best for me, added/wrapped to the embed/object tag. My site is sirmikey.com if you need to contact me.
Cal

MEAGAIN-

Thanks for the comeback and the clue. I was able to dig into the Flash doc and find the “info” button target and change accordingly. It’s working.

gecko

Hi.I stumbled upon your player and I totally liked it! But I do not know how I could use it. Can I use it in my Multiply site? I also do not know how it works. Am I that dumb to not know how to use this?

no you are not dumb, but it does help to have a little experience with HTML. I have never used the multiply site, but as far as I can tell it doesn’t look like you can use the player on it.

Hi, thanks for this apparently very nifty application. I’m quite new to actionscript, but just wonderung if you cold tell me, why I can’t target my own .xspf file, when I try to modify the source file. I’m still getting an error message that Flash couldn’t open the URL to my specified file.
I’m having the .xspf file in the same folder, but get the following path information with the error…

…/xspf%20jukebox/sampleplaylist.xspf?0.827117720618844″

Can’t even get a grasp where the strange number which is always random comes from, because I can’t localize a math.operator.

Would be really nice if you could help me, have been trying hard for ours.

Cheers, Florian

Are you testing locally? the random string of numbers is to prevent caching of the playlist, so that it loads properly over the ‘net. It should work when loaded from a normal browser, but to test in flash, you would need to edit the actionscript a bit

Oh, thanks for the quick reply. I read a little about that stuff in the meantime and know what it’s good for now, I think. Would just be nice to see it working locally, but I’ll just upload it or try to change the actionscript. Any hints for changing it temporarily so that I can target the local .xspf file on my machine?

Hey Lacy,

Tha player is great. I originally had this working great but ran into probs when you came out with the skinable version and I have since been able to get it working…. I’ve spent houres on it. I’ve used your blank page, etc. and many other methods. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I’m waiting for Ogg Vorbis support. If this happens, this jukebox will be usefull for me.

Hey Lacy,

Again, Thanks for all your hard work on this player. I have a quick question though, does the “volume_level” parameter actually work? I can’t seem to implement it properly, and i’ve looked around for working examples online, but all the players seem to start at 100%, regardless of the parameter value.

Thanks,
William

i see, the value just isn’t reflected properly in the volume control display. disregard my previous message.

I would also love Ogg Vorbis support. Is there any chance of this happening?

not anytime soon, the jukebox can only support formats that are supported by adobe flash, which at this time only includes swf, flv, and mp3

You got any more updates coming anytime soon, Lacy?
Any PHP functionality? I’d love to incorporate this as a part of my CMS which is design in PHP and MySQL.

what sort of php functionality would you like to see? I make my updates based on your ideas

skindoc does not open in IE. It’s ok in FF

Is there any way to highlight the current playing song? Like put a background color on it?

you can expect to see that option in the next revision

Lacy, very cool player. Flash never has been something I could get the hang of so it’s cool that there are folks like yourself that are willing to make something like this available to “the rest of us”.

The one item on my wishlist is for AAC support. Might that be a planned addition by any chance?

No matter what, very cool.

You bet, I will be looking into support for new formats very soon

Why does the player stop without playing entire list? It plays two tracks and stops. It it the auto-resume feature, or maybe slight changes in formats which hangs it up? Also, I added a flv to a playlist and it stops with the flv, wont keep going unless I click the next. Any clues? Please?
JR

Uploading the mp3 files through my CMS, and have it add the file to the playlist. I hope that makes a little sense.

Thanks for all the hard work on this player.. much appreciated! it works perfectly with FF and Safari, but for some reason, I can’t get it to work with IE7.. If you have a moment, can you check my page source (http://acidplanet.org) and let me know what I did wrong? Thanks again……….. Tommy

Dear Lacy-

Does the jukebox support access to password-protected folders? I would like to protect my audio from unauthorized access but make it available to the players. If not currently, would it be a difficult to do? Thanks in advance.

I have never tried accessing a password protected folder with flash, but adding the username and password to each url should work properly. ex: http://username:password@mysite.com/secure/audio.mp3

try that format and see how it works

Lacy-

Thanks for the quick comeback. I changed the URL in the player to include the username:password that I’m using to protect the xspf playlists folder (using the format you suggested). Not much use in protecting the audio files folder if the directory paths in the playlist contain the passwords. Anyway, now I get a username/password prompt window when the player tries to open… the embedded username/password in the swf file doesn’t seem to make a difference. I’d like the authentication to happen behind the scenes. Don’t know if it’s possible…

Thanks again.

[quote]Please program some sort of small logo image for your version of the player, instead of that “@”, and make this “credit” image visible and mandatory on all skins.
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This had to be one of the worse suggestions. I haven’t been able to use the latest version of this wonderful player because of this. I have since been using the jw media player, but really miss using the xspf jukebox because it is far more userfriendly and easier to configure.

The author should definetely be credited, that is what right clicking on the player should show. A nice about link. I often right click on players that I find that I think look cool to see wha they were built on. Having such a large logo on the player itself is distraction from the player as well as the overall feel of the website one is trying to use the player in. Especially on small players where it can cover a good quarter of the player, yuck.

Is there any easy way to remove this logo without having to go into the flash itself. The thing that makes your player so much more better than the alternatives, is easy to configure without having to load a flash program to edit.

Anyways, keep up the killer program. Love the java interaction you are currently doing. Just please get rid of such an ugly, large, and obvious logo.

Sometime when the flash player is loaded and tried to play, it says “Undefined” and it won’t play. On the second or third try of loading the flash, it plays. Any idea why this is happening?

hi could you add some code: so that when it loads a list, it can check if the urls work (exist) and remove the non-existent url locations

Gracias!!

TO: calfellows ; The subject was well to bring up but you forgot your manners. I figured it out in 10 minutes by looking at her source code in the example page. Support is the hardest thing to cover for a project, and she is one person, so you may have to fend for yourself at times. Get used to it.

TO Lacy: Thank you very much. Very cool very cool

TO LACY: Sorry for assuming too much about you in my previous post, my man. Again, sick project, well done.

TO THE REST: A lot of these comments are pushy and lack any sort of class. Learn how to speak to people.

Oh, and I second greengeek’s post about the credit image. I’d rather give credits in text at the bottom of the site. Let me know if there are options to get rid of it.

Lacy, I love you! I reaaally love you! I have trying to teach myself Actionscript and PHP from scratch to hopefully create a dynamic media player for my new little site, and while I was googling around to learn more about the radio function, I came across your player. I remembers positions between pages. It’s customizable. It works with Wordpress. It’s beautiful!

*sniff*

Okay, I haven’t started using it yet. I got to scrap out my jumbled mess first, but thank you for at least the inspiration. BRB, got to do some reading!

Okay, I’m back after some playing around! I photoshopp’d the skin a bit, but did not mess with functionality too much. However, even with the autoplay=true, I still can’t get the player to play more than one song. FF/RW work fine, but not autoplay. I want to use your player badly but my codevelopers are a bit sketchy b/c we can’t get the autoplay to work. Also, is there any flexibility of the auto-resume feature? And, I hate to bring this up, but is there a way of re-enabling the radio_mode? My playlists, which are somewhat dynamic in nature, are dependent on that rarely used feature.

I have most of my little issues worked out - I just spent the past few days learning mySql so I could create arrays based on db records of mp3s. So, my playlists are dynamically generated from associative arrays, which can be refreshed/updated from my mySql db. The good news is that the playlists are working fine. The bad news is that I can’t get the player to play the next playlist. It will either repeat the same playlist if repeat_playlist = true, or it will play nothing, but show my next playlist title on the display if repeat_playlist=false. Here are my variables.txt:
&autoload=true&autoplay=true&format=Now Playing -title by -creator on NoctaviusRadio.com&mainurl=http://www.noctaviusradio.com&volume_level= 80&repeat_playlist=false&crosFade=1

The actual player can be found here:
http://www.noctaviusradio.com/popup.php
It will be a popup from any webpage. I can’t use the autoresume feature b/c my playlists are dynamic. I’m not sure how to post my code used, but it’s fairly identical to what the generator outputted.

Anyone have any ideas/suggestions on how I can get the next playlist to load and play? Lacy mentioned a meta tag, but I’m not sure where to put it or how it’s used. My original playlist is .php and it works fine. I just can’t get the next playlist to load/play automatically (or at all).