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Xspf Jukebox Test Page
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.
Submit Skins
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.
Domain Change
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.
Xspf Customizer & Embed Generator
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.
Xspf Jukebox Documentation
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.
Download Down
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.
Ads
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.
Broken CSS
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.
V3
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.
The XSPF Jukebox
Thats right, the ‘XSPF Web Music Player’ is no more, my jukebox has been completely rewritten, losing the last snippits of code from Fabricio Zuardi’s original. The Jukebox is fully skinnable, every function previously available has been recoded to support skinning and resizing. The first skin, iPod Black, is a partial demo of what is possible. It supports both audio and video, and works the same way as the normal player. There are 3 files associated with the player, the actual swf file, which while having around 400 extra lines of code, has been cleaned up so that it is the same size as the Xspf, a measly 16kb. Next is the skin.xml file, which contains the instructions for creating the player look, and lastly is the background image. There are two versions, a Flash 7 version for higher browser support, or a Flash 8 version for PNG and alpha channel support. As of now there is no download, but in the next few days I will be remaking my website to support the posting, previewing, and downloading of skins, as well as releasing a few more of my own skins. As for player updates, I will be adding an image loader for greater image options (resize, rotate, color change). The one drawback I can find is in the font display, the user must have your specified font on their computer to view the player correctly, otherwise they will see the default system font (usually Times New Roman). There has only been one function addition, and that is the ability for the alphabetize function to disregard a ‘The’ at the beggining of an artist title, the same way iTunes does. For example, ‘The Beatles’ would come alphabetically before ‘Cake’. To turn this off, and alphabetize normally, pass the variable ‘forceAlphabetize=1′.
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