digg.com use my Audio Player
Yesterday, TechCrunch reported on digg.com launching two new sections: Podcasts and Videos.
I found out this morning that digg are using my Audio Player for their Podcasts section which is really cool. Incidentally, I also found out that TalkCrunch, the weekly TechCrunch podcast site, also use my player (via the excellent PodPress plugin).
This news has given me another motivation boost to complete the next release of my Audio Player. Features for version 2 will definitely include:
- Simple standalone option for non-WordPress websites
- Better handling of simultaneous open players (using my friend Pete’s excellent LcBroadcast class)
- Better handling of bandwidth usage: pause button also pauses download. Note: This feature can be turned off.
- Volume control
- More options to control the interface (like removing certain elements such as titles)
- WordPress version will include JavaScript method to embed player (great news for IE users)
- Player will be resizeable (well, its width anyway)
December 19th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
Pause button pauses download? I think this is not a good idea. The people with slow connections use to start playing and then pausing for the download to finish before starting the play. This is sometimes the only way you can use to listen the whole audio file without any cuts.
Think about it.
BN
BTW… great player.
December 19th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
BN: It depends on the type of use. If you have many players on a page, it would definitely be useful. But don’t worry, I am aware that this feature isn’t for everyone so I will make it an option.
December 19th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Hey congrats Martin, thats probably about as good a recommendation as you can get. Looking forward to v2.
December 19th, 2006 at 10:28 pm
Congratulations Martin, that’s awesome news!
December 20th, 2006 at 1:18 am
It was thru digg that I found out about your cool player. Great job!
December 21st, 2006 at 6:49 pm
Make the new version so that we can make the colors to be default? I changed the colors previously, but want the default color scheme now - but have no idea how to. Just my 2 cents.
December 21st, 2006 at 7:25 pm
Vincent: Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll see what I can do.
December 21st, 2006 at 10:13 pm
Great job! After trying a bunch of different audio plug-ins, yours stood out in style, ease of use, and customization. I recognized immediately when I saw it on digg.
Keep up the good work. I look forward to version 2.
January 19th, 2007 at 7:50 am
That is awsome that they use your audio player. I think it is perfect. It is compact and very customizable. I am using it on my site, and I want to say thank you.
March 3rd, 2007 at 1:13 pm
hey mate,
I love your audioplayer, and am using it to begin a podcast at my site. I’m so glad to hear you’re getting a good response… you deserve it.
One feature EVERY player is missing is buffering the next song in the playlist.
If it would buffer the very next song in the playlist, that would remove the delay between tracks and let you have seamless playlists… Other than that I can’t fault it. Slick code and slick design…
March 3rd, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Hey again.
There are actually a few things hindering MP3 players at the moment, which I know yours could overcome.
Along with the next song buffering, the way they all handle missing files is a bit awkward. Yours gives back an error. It would be great if it did an error check, and defaulted to an error.mp3 and then continued on the playlist rather than displaying the error as text.
files come and go on the net, and the player could definitely handle the error more elegantly than falling off the tracks and crashing into silence like that. The default error.mp3 would be IMHO a much more attractive solution
cheers again…
March 3rd, 2007 at 6:28 pm
and a way to track listens
April 19th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
I have tried with all my heart, for a week now and making no progress with any of the music plugins. I’am will versed in macromedia flash for years I can make a 10,000 dollar corporate website in three days. But this blog stuff is making me ill, my daughter wants a blog not one of my flash sites…
the address: http://www.amandsblog.us/wordpress it’s nice but she wants to add songs with the artist names and title so more than one player is needed.
If anyone can load one on the site so i can copy it. I will give you the admin password. There is one loaded in the plugin directory “audio_player” I have followed all the instructions but to no avail…..
Need some real help
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:16 pm
Martin-
I would like to make a suggestion. Would it be possible to make the FLA file available? So more advanced users can tweak the aesthetics a bit more? I love your player and think you did an amazing job on it’s styling, but I feel that I would prefer square edges over the round edges. Maybe just making the option available to people would work. Let me know what you think.
Thanks!
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:40 pm
imunderpressure: fla source file IS available. check the plugin page
August 13th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Is there a way to maintain the default height of the player but vary the width? I would like to display the player in a sidebar, but it is to wide as-is right now. When I vary the width (say, to 150 pixels) in the object tag it shrinks it down to a minuscule height.
Any help would be enormously appreciated since I’m a complete Flash novice.
Thanks!
August 13th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Doug: the player’s dimensions are fixed and changing them will always result in a distorted interface. Sorry…
August 13th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Well, I guess I will have to wait until 2.0 for the width variance feature (if you’re still planning that).
Thanks!
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:21 pm
found your player and really like it. Any thoughts about a video version? would it be as simple as changing the size and pointing to a video flv?
October 17th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Has development halted on this? How is “2″ coming? I’m getting ready to use podpress and NEED the volume control.
I’ll donate if I get that feature.
October 18th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
@michael: version 2 is on the back burner for the moment. I know the plugin looks like a relatively simple application but it is actually quite time consuming and very tricky to implement all the features that people want. I will definitely get back to work on it soon but I cannot promise anything. Your donation offer is very generous but unfortunately it is more of a spare time issue on my part.
Sorry I can’t be more specific…