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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′.
View it Here.
I’ve updated the playlist on my site with roughly 95 new songs. Enjoy! http://blog.lacymorrow.com/projects/xspf-wmp/
Now accepted, thank you for your support!
For those that don’t know, making and maintaining the Xspf player and other projects is very taxing on my time. Hours and hours have gone into developing everything on this website, and answering email after email, all for no charge. If you like what you see on the website, consider donating a few dollars to help keep these projects going, and open-source. Any sum of money, large or small helps support what I do. The donations are made through Paypal, which accepts almost any credit card or eCheck. The menu bar above has a link, or you canclick here.
I have been getting a lot of emails lately, and for those of you intending to email me, here are some tips:
I always read blog comments as soon as they are sent, usually within 24 hours. If a reply is necessary, I may or may not reply then and there, depending on the length of the reply.
As for contacts through, my website, or help you need, a reply is always, first come, first serve. Paying customers however, will always be first.
The Html (low bandwidth) version of my website is completed, save for the contact form. I tried to give the same look and feel without using any necessary javascript, or too many extras. I have tried to create my site so that it will work seamlessly on any OS with any browser. The blog problems are slowly being fixed.http://www.lacymorrow.com/html
A new page has just been posted on this site at http://blog.lacymorrow.com/projects/.
The projects page will hold all of my, *ahem*, innovations for download, reference, etc.
Check it out.
I have uploaded my dynamic image script, for use with blogs or websites. Ever get tired of having to use system fonts for all of your webpages? Then Don’t! This script takes your desired text, size, and any “.ttf” font and creates an image so that the end user does not have to see Times. Download here.
The new version of the slim player is up and about, with the same external variables ability as it’s big brother. The new big thing here though is another innovation from my blossoming flash years and my jukebox, id3 tag support. id3 tags were not usable in the extended version because of the displaying of all artists and titles in the playlist. However, with id3 tags, no artist or title is needed. Information is stored is 98% of alll mp3’s, including artist and song titles. The tags show automatically when there is no titles present, or use the variable “&useId3=1″ to have them always show. As well as that, there have been the usual visual updates, and more updates to the loading script to timeout after five seconds.This is also the release of the Extended 4.1 version with a few bug fixes.Get ‘em.