Audio Blog and Flash MP3 Player
Friday, October 27, 2006
Given my new found web space and bandwidth capabilities I have decided to turn the music section of this blog from a simple "review and list" posting of my favourite albums to a fully fledged mp3 blog with inline flash streamed mp3s and music videos via YouTube. My inspiration for doing this comes from the well versed Spiked Candy for which I am a regular reader.
However the "Radio Blog" flash script used there seems too cumbersome for my liking, so I searched around for an alternative flash streaming audio player. I found two options - both by Jeroen Wijering, the first was very similar to Radio Blog, it has a list of songs and you can choose to play them; whilst very nice and highly customizable it did not suit a post by post situation. So I opted for the second, a concise progress bar which allows colour and size manipulation (but has no text display), perfect for my needs.
To check out this neat little script I suggest reading the latest posts in the Audio / MP3 blog section, I have put up three posts so far including Lulu Jackson's pre-war blues rarity "You're going to leave the old home Jim" and a video of Mohammed Rafi's "Jaan Pechechaan Ho" performed for the Bollywood film Gumnaam.
My satisfaction with this script has also lead me to integrate it into the forums so that any direct link to a file with mp3 extension is parsed to generate an inline playable version and an option to download the track. This modification is amongst the many I have added lately, including the ability to post YouTube and GoogleVideo inline from the reply box. Now I only wish I could somehow apply these to blogger so that I don't have to add the html every time I want to post something dynamic.
However the "Radio Blog" flash script used there seems too cumbersome for my liking, so I searched around for an alternative flash streaming audio player. I found two options - both by Jeroen Wijering, the first was very similar to Radio Blog, it has a list of songs and you can choose to play them; whilst very nice and highly customizable it did not suit a post by post situation. So I opted for the second, a concise progress bar which allows colour and size manipulation (but has no text display), perfect for my needs.
To check out this neat little script I suggest reading the latest posts in the Audio / MP3 blog section, I have put up three posts so far including Lulu Jackson's pre-war blues rarity "You're going to leave the old home Jim" and a video of Mohammed Rafi's "Jaan Pechechaan Ho" performed for the Bollywood film Gumnaam.
My satisfaction with this script has also lead me to integrate it into the forums so that any direct link to a file with mp3 extension is parsed to generate an inline playable version and an option to download the track. This modification is amongst the many I have added lately, including the ability to post YouTube and GoogleVideo inline from the reply box. Now I only wish I could somehow apply these to blogger so that I don't have to add the html every time I want to post something dynamic.
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