XSPFjukebox - Skinnable MODx Media Player

XSPF Jukebox Media Player - link to Repository.
Skinnable MODx Flash Music Player
@version 0.1.1
@date 2007/10/24
@author joeindio
Use this forum to post any comments about this addition or any questions you have regarding its use.

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Hello all,

This is my first attempt at a "serious" Snippet. Basically I pulled up the excellent XSPF Jukebox Music Player and created a wrapper snippet for MODx. I believe it works quite well as it is, so I added it to the Repository

XSPFjukebox is a flash music player featuring

• Fully skinnable Interface via simple xml files - check the included skins inside the skins/ folder
• 3 player modes:
  [list][li]single file
• remote playlist in XSPF format
• play files from a folder (the default - snippet automatically generates playlists based on your music files)

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[li]ID3 support (optional)[/li]
[li]Individual images for each track and related images from Amazon[/li]
[li]Unobstrusive Flash content: javascript-based embedding using SWFobject (features Advanced Flash detection and error handling) or use XHTML standards-compliant SWF tag[/li]
[li]Automatic resume of tracks, autoplay, shuffle, plus many more options! Check the snippets parameters for a detailed list.[/li][/list]

I’d like to have your feedback and help to improve my rough OO code and make of this the best CMS Media Player out there!

Cheers,
JP

UPDATE: fixed skin XML parsing to be compatible with php lower than 5. Updated in Repository (v0.1.1)

Man, this looks amazing! I’ll tinker with it as soon as I get time.

Brilliant work, and keep it up.

regards.

This looks great, I can’t wait to check it out.

Sweet, this is exactly what I need for a project I’m doing! -- Thanks!

By the description... its Awesome!
- How about having MP3 lists to be played from different albums in different pages?
- is there a way to track how many times the files have been played/downloaded?

Hi,

Having different MP3 lists from different albums is easy, just feed the reader with the appropriate playlist file. Or let it generate a new one on each page - just feed it with the mp3 file’s folder for each page.

There’s no out of the box functionality to track playing statistics, but it shouldn’t be that difficult to implement. I’ll get back to it...

Like I said, for now this is mostly a wrapper snippet but keep that feedback coming and we’ll see what this leads to...

Cheers, JP

Now that’s a cool addition I think of a couple of things I’ll do with it !

I’ll definitely test and report

http://symphonicheaven.com/psp/radiant/downloads/soundtrack.php

Set it up in about 10-15 minutes. IMHO, it might be good to talk about the autoplay/autoload functions on the Repository page, only because most users will be needing those, and they’re buried in the snippet code.

IMHO, I’d say preload the playlist (if it’s being done in a folder, obviously) automatically. Seems counter-intutive to have the user load it themselves. Autoplaying should be false, since that’ll annoy someone as much as people who have music playing in the BG of their website. 

@ Soshite

Followed your link to see the player in action and noticed....

Should be

Hope you don’t take offence!
David

x_x...gah. Well, that’s what I get for trying to do it somewhat faster than usual after 3 hours in back-to-back VBasic / C programming classes

*notes to self to fix that*