New updates for the Xspf Jukebox. I have fixed some minor bugs with skin processing, as well as adding a new option for aligning the track display text using the tag “align” inside the skin.xml file (options, of course, are “left”, “right”, and default is “center”).
Two new variables, one more exciting than the other. The first is the “midChar” variable, which gives you the option to change the character separating creator and title in the track label. The second controls the new Crossfade function, much like iTunes. Use the variable “crossFade”, set to either a boolean value (true or false), which will default to six seconds, or fill in a number (in seconds) 1 through 12. Download it here.
The download link for the xspf_jukebox and skins is back up at least for now. Expect a new release very soon. Go get it.
Finally, a full writeup on using the Xspf Jukebox has been completed, and should help solve many problems that people have been having. Next to come is a “skin.xml” writeup, on how to create skins, and applications to automate embedding. See it here. On another note, a new version of the Jukebox has been released, with minor bug fixes and a couple of changes: the player will no longer connect to Amazon to retrieve images unless the “findImage” variable is set to true. Id3 tags will be used if no creator, title, or annotation is present. The “skin_url” is no longer the xml file, but the folder containing your skin. Single tracks now use the two parameters “track_url” and “track_title” in the place of “song_url” and “song_title”. The download should be available in the next few days with the skins, or if you can’t wait, it is already in the source download.
You may have come to this site to find… nothing. My site was temporarily shut down for a couple of days, twice, for CPU overuse (about 11% where I am allowed 2.5%). I believe the cause of these problems was the script used to control downloading of skins for the Xspf Jukebox, so there will be no download link for a couple of days.
You might have noticed a couple of additions to the blog, by way of a couple of unobtrusive advertisements placed on the pages. These along with donations will help balance the time spent creating my projects, so give a click or two every once in awhile.
The Xspf Jukebox has been updated with a few new functions, including an autoresume feature based on Thomas Boutell’s additions on my old player. The function works worse than would be appreciated, but works nonetheless. You can activate it by using the variable ‘autoresume’. A second addition is the ability to choose a highlight color for the currently playing song. Use the tag ’selectedColor’ inside the skin.
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This update fixes a large bug for any skin that includes an image display. If you have been hassling with this before you have noticed that images resize to their original size no matter what width and height you specify.
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At this time the newly created XSPF Playlister has been released to assist in dynamically creating Xspf playlists to be used with the Jukebox. Just upload the playlist.php file to your server, fill in some settings, and link your .swf file to it to dynamically create playlist files. Id3 tags are supported for by uploading an included folder, or you can save loading time and bandwidth by organizing your tracks into sub-folders according to the artist, then label your .mp3 file with the track name. Images are also supported, rename an individual image the exact same as the correspinding track name, and place it inside the same folder.
On top of that is release 5.1 of the Xspf Jukebox, which no longer uses the mochibot code, and contains three new variables; ‘trackNumber’ specifies whether or not the playlist should be numbered, ‘activeDownload’ enables/disables downloading of mp3 files, and ‘useId3′, while being available previously for the slim player, is now available for any skin, although the new Playlister now grabs id3 tags (used only on a skin without a playlist, and with a regular playlist.xspf file).
Lastly, I have put together an automatic php embed script for the player, just edit the settings inside and call it from a php page using “require_once(“embed.php”);”. This takes much of the hassle out of embedding the player, although it only helps when loading the jukebox from a php page. For .html users, I am working on a similar helper script.
See and get it here.
If you are viewing this blog through Internet Explorer 6, parts of it may seem broken. It is being worked on, until then please excuse the formatting errors.
The download for the Xspf Jukebox has been posted. I have worked hard to create a dynamic php download session, so that instead of downloading every file, a .tar.gz package is created on-the-fly, containing only the requested skin file and the necessary swf file. I also created a php display to automatically find and display all skins on the site. As always, you can find a link to all of the source files, as well as an example on how to create your own skins. In the works is a skin upload page, for user-submitted skins, and a skin creator, to help in creating them. For right now, if you would like your skin displayed and available for download, email me the skin.xml and images folder, containing all used images. Remember to use relative urls when creating skins, (ex: image=”images/ipodblack.png”). See and get it here.
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