I have been playing with QuickTime and I think I can get it to do
everything I (or you) want.
Currently I an using the browser plugin a popup window.
I also have been able to use the QT Player desktop app.
You can select a song (or movie) from a browser page.
You can play it inline, in a popup or in another frame.
You can do this in such a way that the songs/movies cannot be easily
copied or saved.
You can select another song and it will kill the current song and start
the new one.
Or you can build a playlist of up to 256 songs -- give QT the playlist
and it runs on its own.
Or you can use _javascript_ to manipulate the player/plugin and
songs/movies within the active playlist.
I don't understand all I know about this yet but there is a lot of neet
things you can do -- For example a movie can have commands embedded
within the movie. These communicate with the plugin/player which, in
turn, communicates with the _javascript_ in your web page & vice versa.
To take this even further, the movie, can be wired and have hotspots --
so the user can click on the move and cause all sorts of things to
happen.
I don't how much of this applies to mp3, yet.
But it appears that QT is a little media server that you can easily
control from a web page with _javascript_ or Flash.
I'll try to have something to demo later today.
Right now I have a semi-hard coded 2 song then repeat playlist and it
gets a little tedious.
Dick
"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to
choose from."
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum -
On Jul 20, 2004, at 7:51 AM, cfhelp wrote:
> Thanks everyone for the input I will be checking into it all
> especially the
> WM9 Codec
>
>
> I think the ultimate idea would be to detect the users default player
> or at
> least ask them if they want QuickTime, winamp or Media Player. In the
> case
> of the KCJukeBox.com I can store that info in the database under their
> profiles as well.
>
> I am getting a pretty positive response on this so I got a lot of
> work to
> do. Its open source so if anyone wants to play with it go grab it and
> send
> back your changes/improvements.
>
> Rick Eidson
> Partner & CTO
> ArcRiver Technology, LLC
> ASP, PHP, PERL, Cold Fusion Hosting Kansas City
> http://www.arcriver.com/ <http://www.arcriver.com/>
>
>
> Kansas City Musicians
> http://www.kcjukebox.com/
>
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