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…And I’m proud of it. Maybe now it will stay that way. The purpose of it was so that people having problems using my projects could get help from those who are having a little more success.
Anyone having problems getting everything to work just right with the Xspf Jukebox may want to click the link below. I have thrown together a super-simple page that incorporates all of the included files with the Jukebox download. The source files are also available for download so that you can see exactly how to use them. See the test page.
I now have a dedicated form for submitting your own skins to share with others. Zip all skin files and visit lacymorrow.com/projects/jukebox/upload/ to submit to the site. All skins will be approved by myself before being posted on the site. Also the Xspf Jukebox page now shows the contents of the informational tags in the skin.xml file.
I have completed my second server transfer in two years, and I think i’ve found a reliable host. I am working on updating everything on the site to work with the new domain, and I should be close. If you see any problems, please tell me. Also, if you were redirected to this site from geekkid.net, now is a good time to update any links you have saved.
There are two new tools posted on my site to aid in the use of the Xspf Jukebox. The first is the Embed Script Generator, which takes your entered values and outputs a copy-and-paste code for almost any html page. The second and likely more useful is the Xspf Customizer, which generates a “variables.txt” file. It makes all of the variables easy to understand, and does most of the work for you; just tell it what you want.
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.
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.
As you can see, the layout has changed quite a bit and is slowly becoming cleaner and more accessible. I am using a new theme for wordpress, Vistered Little by Nik, and have begun moving my projects to be part of my blog rather than part of the main site. Now is a good time to replace any links you have bookmarked, as everything will be moving. As soon as the changes to the blog and projects has been completed, I will recreate my Flash homepage to reflect the same.