FLASH MP3 PLAYER 3.8

script | 10.05.2007 | print

The Flash MP3 Player is the easiest way to add live music or podcasts to your website. It supports playback of a single MP3 file or an RSS/XSPF/ATOM playlist, a wide range of flashvars (settings) for tweaking both behavior and appearance and an extensive, documented javascript/actionscript API. The example above shows a feed with free music from the popular ODEO portal and the small example below plays a song by Peter Jones:

LICENSING

This script is licensed under a Creative Commons License. It allows you to use and modify the script for noncommercial purposes. For commercial use, I distribute licenses of the script for 15 euros. For more info and instant ordering, please advance to my online order page!

DOWNLOAD

You can download the Flash MP3 Player here. It includes the source files (Flash8) and a readme with tips regarding the installation and use of this script. please read it carefully!

PLUGINS

Since the player is quite new, there are few plugins for inserting it into a much-used CMS yet. If you have written one, please report so in my forum, so I can list it here:

1. The MP3-o-Matic Wordpress Plugin (by DarkGiank)
2. The Flash MP3 Player Wordpress Plugin (by Rosen Ivanov)
3. The WordPress MediaCaster Plugin (by Semiologic)
4. The Joomla/Mambo MP3 Module (by Xi)
5. The SOBI2 Joomla Plugin (by Sigrid & Radek Suski)
6. The Drupal SWFTools Plugin (by Simon)
7. The Joomla MP3 Player Module (by Daniel Gutierrez)
8. The TYPO3 MP3Player extension (by Raffi)
9. The ZMS Media Player Plugin (by Christian Meier)
10. The Zoints MP3 Player Plugin (by SneakyDave)
11. The Ruby on Rails Player/Rotator Plugin (by Farooq Ali)
12. The PmWiki MediaPlayer Plugin (by Dfaure)
13. The TikiWiki Plugin (by Casainho.net)
14. The eZ publish CMS MP3 Extension (by Vjeran Vlahovicr)
15. The Redaxo single & jukebox MP3 modules (by Hannes Peterseim)

SUPPORT

I receive a lot of requests for creating customized versions of my players/rotator. In most cases however, a clever setting of the flashvars already fulfilled the requests, so please make sure you check the list of flashvars (in the readme file) first! Additionally, I do not design or program any particular (paid-for) customizations (I just don't have time for it), but interesting features will be plugged into the next update.

If you are familiar with actionscripting yourself, you should find that changing or adding to the players/rotator is quite simple. To get started, I've provided a clear overview of the scripting in the readme document, plus some hints to get you started.

The players/rotator will run quite OK inside the Flash Player 7. However, the following features are not supported: display of GIF/PNG images, smoothing of scaled images/video, VP6 encoded video, javascript control and the digits in the controlbar.

A convenient collection of hands-on examples can be found in the extras folder of this website.

For tips, tricks, additional info and bug reports, you can always have a look at my forum.

For more info about the embedding of Flash in HTML, have a look at my Embedding Flash article.

HISTORY

1. 3.8: Added (multitrack) Captionate captions. Added extra audiotrack (for accessibility or director's comments). Added flashvar for return of an ID with javascript updates. "showicons=false" will also hide the controlbar in overlay mode. 'start' value now works for HTTP/RTMP streams; playlist will auto-highlight new chapters (great for long podcasts). Various bugfixes. [download]
2. 3.7: Added runtime playlist editing for action- and javascript. Dozens of small enhancements and bugfixes. Revamped the readme and extras. Switched to SWF Object for embedding.
3. ..
4. 3.2: Complete rewrite of the mp3player. Added large cover support and a documented (javascript) API. [download]
5. 2.3: Latest version 2 mp3player. Added RSS/XSPF playlists, color customization and scrollbar. [download]
6. 1.1: latest installment of the first mp3player. [download]

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