Add flash player to your songs
  • brandonbrandon
    Add this script to your header:


    Change the bgcolor and the fgcolor to suit your color scheme. This will make any direct links to mp3s playable in the browser. See http://www.touchthatdial.com for an example.
  • wordtapeswordtapes
    thanks! this rulz!
  • mike green lightsmike green lights
    ace cheers, I'll try it out now
  • mike green lightsmike green lights
    is it possible to have this placed after the link?
  • anthony@hypemanthony@hypem
    The MP3 player provided by del.icio.us is also very very nice:

    http://del.icio.us/help/playtagger

    I've seen quite a few people using it.
  • brandonbrandon
    yeah it's not bad, but there were a few things we didn't like about that.. 1) you can't change the colors.. so pure 0000ff blue on white doesn't match a lot of peoples' sites. 2) the 'tag this' feature makes it very easy for people to link directly to your mp3 file through delicious which could increase your bandwidth usage w/out increasing readership.
  • brandonbrandon
    ps. i'll see if i can get it to place after the link.
  • anthony@hypemanthony@hypem
    You are right about the linking. I've ended up kinda liking the colors since they end up standing out in most designs making the button easy to find. 37Signals and crew were complaining about stuff like that here

    One good thing about it: when you are on a page with several tracks and you are listening to one and hit play on another, the previous one stops and the one you clicked starts playing. I think yours does that too, it's cool stuff.
  • brandonbrandon
    I'm just using the same flash player you have, but the button version:
    http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/

    And then using js to inject it into the sites.

    I like it because it makes it easier to preview the songs inline w/out having to download them.
  • brandonbrandon
    to place at the back of your mp3, append pos=after to the script url:
  • AustinTaperAustinTaper
    i am having a problem, with both the 1st script posted by Brandon, along with the delicious script posted as a reply..

    the problem is, the player loads just fine on every site visit using Firefox but when you load the page in Internet Explorer, it loads with errors on 1st attempt (bottom left icon displaying done, with errors). if you hit refresh in IE it loads the flash player on 2nd try, but i want it to load right the 1st time. it only works right every time in FF.

    any thoughts on how to make this work ok for IE? thanks for any help
  • AustinTaperAustinTaper
    i found the problem. in my blog, i have a template and i simply moved the script from the header to the 'post' section of the template and it applied the script to all posts on my blog. this solved my problem and the script now works fine in IE
  • brandonbrandon
    cool. i was looking into it. glad you found a solution.
  • wotanwotan
    This is awesome -- added it to my blog. ;)
  • SoMuchSilenceSoMuchSilence
    Got a question about these play taggers, as I've tried both. I'd love to add it to my blog but I have a really strange issue with them: On songs I've converted from vinyl, when using the play tagger/flash player, those specific tracks are played kinda slooooow. Imagine a 45 being played at 33 RPM. I can't figure out why this is. All other mp3s work just fine. I'd love to use this, but since I convert vinyl quite a bit, it's posing a problem. Anyone have a clue about this? Perhaps the file size is too large?
  • anthony@hypemanthony@hypem
    SoMuchSilence, when you convert - what frequency do you use (44kHz, 48 etc?)

    If the MP3 is not 44kHz, it may have problems getting played at the right speed in the flash player.
  • SoMuchSilenceSoMuchSilence
    Anthony,

    Thanks. I'm going to test this out later on. I'm using Audio Hijack Pro on the rips, so I'll customize the frequency and see if that helps. Looks like there may be a vinyl post for tomorrow!

    Kevin
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