Continuous MP3 Play
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Has anyone figured out/seen any examples of a Wordpress blog implementing an MP3 player similar to that on Hypem in nature, insomuch as that it continues to play an mp3 when a new page is loaded?
I am exploring the different options (currently going nowhere). Outside of a separate frame, I haven't come to any conclusions. Even if there were a separate frame, how to get that working is another mystery so far. I have a knack for figuring these things out once I get stuck into it, but to be honest, I haven't seen any good examples.
What's your take? -
I'm not sure what exactly you want to do but I like Streampad. You can open a new window of streaming mp3's from your site (http://www.songsillinois.net/#showplaylist=true&showplaylistbutton=true&autoplay=true&showpop=false&popup=true&queuenumber=1) or just play all songs in a row or individual songs for that matter. It works for me in Wordpress although I get error messages occasionally.
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Streampad has a nice interface, and I use it...but what I'm trying to nail down here is the ability to keep the song going while you browse around a website.
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The Streampad player will do that if you pop it out.
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HypeM was only able to do that recently so I'd guess it's not the easiest thing ever to code...
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The simplest thing would be to put the popped out Streampad in a frame then I imagine. But maybe Anthony can help out on how he did it?
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Hypem uses dynamic calls to stream the content inline. So the player never leaves the page and plays sequentially based on a master list and not necessarily what's on your screen.
Its not that hard to code, but you'd have to make some mods to the backend of Wordpress. Ajaxed Wordpress would probably be easiest to implement it on -
http://ajaxedwp.com -
Yeah, you're onto something with the Ajaxed Wordpress. I think I can make it work, though it's giving me all sorts of troubles that I'll need to spend some time working on!
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hey Jason--I'm sure you're aware of this, but in light of Bill and others--I believe there are some issues within the clauses of the DMCA agreement about streaming MP3s continuously. You might want to take a look.
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I'm sure Millionyoung and Four Tet are lining up to sue him.
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Streaming will get you into no more trouble than posting an mp3. It's all the same in the eyes of those feeling litigious.
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Ya guys, I'm not necessarily trying to "stream" mp3s...it's simply that the way my site is setup, when someone is on the home page and listening to a song and decides to read the full article, they have to start that song from scratch. My goal is to keep that mp3 playing.
@SFCritic: I know that heads me toward muddy waters, but it's not yet a "playlist" concern.
@au gout du jour: You never know who is going to sue you! That "Deleted Threads" had some pretty darn small artists at the root cause of the shutdowns. They weren't doing it intentionally, per se, but their labels were. -
Millionyoung still offers most of his stuff for free download via his tumblr and Four Tet is an artist who notably got famous due to exposure through p2p. That was the joke.
Anyway, yeah, what Sean R said. If you get taken down, you get taken down. The idea that "streaming" is what's going to make your blog "not okay" is pretty ludicrous. -
@jason@indieshuffle
I see that you got your site to continuously play the music. Was Ajaxed the solution for you? I was thinking about doing something similar but I also have concerns about the legality of it.. -
Ajax is a core component, ya :-)
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we're doing persistent music playing at www.lessthan3.com using wp+ajax but it's a pain. it's made many other things unnecessarily difficult, and we're hacking away at solving those little by little. there's a reason why more sites aren't doing it.
jason, i see you're doing something similar, and that you are having the same problems (which are probably not obvious to most others) -
Which problems are those?
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jason, relating to ajax indexing and stuff like link previews on facebook. for example, i checked if google would do auto-preview text and an image when a link to your site was posted on facebook, but it just redirects to your front page.
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Indexing works fine for me. I don't think there's any way to avoid having a url with a hash symbol (#) embedded in it reroute to the portion before the hash.
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