Topic: Ipod-like youtube based radio player

..Is ready for download, with all images, the php source, instructions, etc. Everything it takes to run it as in :
Ipod touch like music player based on Ajax/youtube

With your custom playlist(s) (or anything else you feel like customizing).

Nothing big, but I like music, and music integrated in a proper and accessible web player should not hurt
(instead of the classic myspace kind of direct youtube links).

Known Issues and future changes :
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- integration with swfobject (removal of the object markup)
- removal of all the extra markup in the body of the page, with the exception of the playlist
- activation of the "loop" controls
- fix of the "prev" feature
- fix of the casual "dragevent" issue

So in the end, it will become really straightforward as in "copy paste style and script tages, edit playlist".
It works in IE7, Op9+, Safari 3+, Konqueror 3+, and Firefox 2+ - with the Flash player (tested on Flash player 9.0).

I am releasing it now, for I won't be able to alter the code in the next days.
Sue my lady about that (you should, she's too good to be true).

Cheers,

Neat but I really miss a cursorointer; on the active elements, and loath inline style declarations

in your previous examples, the volume button was not drag an droppable for me (firefox). but as far as i have seen you are already aware of this issue. however, in this version, the volume button doesnt work at all.

(Edited by mas on 01-27-2008 20:24)

Righto, thanks a bunch.

- corrected the inline styles issue
- all bug reports like this are pure gold to me

I will keep reading them all and fix that drag/drop issue(s) (fix them all at once I mean), but I just seriously don't want to commit to delays and disappoint -
lifelifelife, you know how it goes..
The thing has a home where the code is finally (somewhat) readable and fully available, making for a good example of Flash/Ajax for
the time being - rest assured that bug reports will be treated as deserved - eg turned into fixes asap.

(Side note : I didn't make it as easy as copy/pasting the youtube "watch video" links - that would work, but some videos
are meant to be watched and not embedded, so if I provide a way to embed them, I am violating the youtube terms of services and that's not cool)

(Edited by argo navis on 01-27-2008 20:53)

just to confirm what mas said...

about the drag and drop in the previous version ... the drag worked ... drop didn't because the knob was always ~10 pixels to the left of the cursor ... so it kind of didn't release
and yes in this version the knob doesn't work at all
(I use FF2)

I think it's a matter of event bubbling
Combined with some css quirk. Bottom line : revise the whole implementation of the slider/volume thing, but firstly, I'd love
to know the answer to the question linked above, if anyone has encountered the same problem (I remember I have in the past, I just can't put
my hands on the fix right now).

I'll probably be part of the 20 liners, but that's as much js as I will be able to deliver for january, still, *what I said above about feedback,
thanksuseful and all of that "

Frontdoor release thing works, have found the origin of the issue regarding the volume problem in standalone mode :
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/findpos.html (for reference)