Javascript would not work to call new playlists into the main flash file. However, I could design a new player with the feature to load/unload new playlists, obviously it would need extra buttons to move forward and backwards through the various playlists. It's not that hard to code, just takes awhile to design a new player.

I can add things like, volume control, pan (balance), equalizer, etc.. Basically, I could copy most of the Actionscripting used in this version and build upon it, and add a new interface, perhaps more hifi looking.

So, yeah multiple-playlists can be integrated.:)

Outstanding!

Just for me, the possibility of selecting from different playlists is really all I'm after. Let them adjust their volume themselves:)

I suppose the changes for this would involved some kind of selector inside the player? And obviously, playlists with different names. Pretty simple on my end, if you ever get around to coding the player to do that.



I will watch this thread closely.

Actually, a number of members have enquired about being able to change playlists. Probably, take me about a week or less, to design a new interface with controls to do this. I'll probably release a new version very soon, due to the response this modification has generated.

And also fix the problem with only 50 tracks per playlist.:)

First in line I'll be:p
Thanks for staying close to your release and taking our suggestions under consideration.

lol...

You're welcome! I'll support this modification, and always welcome suggestions on improving its current features.

The new one, will be better and lighter than this version - even with all the new features I'll be adding.:)

If any of you have not yet clicked Install, I would suggest you do so, then I will notify you of any major addons, or changes. :)

This is 1 of the best add-ons I've added to my site. Excellent job Syrus!

You're welcome!

Thanks for the compliment...:D

I know many of you have been waiting for me to release a vBadvanced CMPS version of this modification. The player itself had to be resized correctly to fit in the side column, and this caused a few problems. It maybe released as a module, or full instructions on how to create the module, since I had problems exporting the module from the CMPS system, and not showing when imported into a new installation..:confused:

I have it up and running now, and will be releasing it tomorrow as a new separate package, with the autoStart player and a few other files for it to function correctly in Internet Explorer.

Anyway, sorry for the delay - but it was my youngest daughter's 6th birthday today, so I was tied up for a few hours.

ATB.

Syrus XL

Happy birthday to her, take your time, Real life comes first...ppl could wait ofcourse :)

hiya, i've read this whole forum fairly well and i just figured i'd mention that i've got this running with vbadvanced CMPS already. I did it like so:

In the "vBa CMPS" control panel in the admincp, add a new page, and have it be the html file page type. Add whatever other modules you like + Custom Page Content.

Now create and html file that explains a little, like "'hi listen to some groovy tunes lol'" here's mine:

then just upload the html file along with the other files and point the 'html file page options' to it. I'm not a good coder, but i manage to frankenstein some interesting stuff together lol. I sincerely hope this helps someone, and thank you for a great mod. (b'-')b

btw the conditional <if> statements don't work for me in this situation, tho
^.~

you can see it here if u want....

edit: oO dumb. I see now that it could have been more easily added as a Module in vBa CMPS, but then it would reset between pages >.<

Happy Birthday to the little 'un chief.

Got this installed and running now. Got me two probs. First one was using CMPS with the index page not in the forum folder. Adding ipod.htm to the CMPS URL list didn't work, and changing the url path in the template to the direct path made it look for "forum/www.mydomain.com/forum/ipod.htm" ??
Anyway, fixed it by making two playlists, two swf's and two ipod.htm's - one of each in the forum folder and and one of each in the root. No biggie.
2nd prob is *some* MP3's play either slowly or too fast. I'm sure this is nothing whatsoever to do with VbPlayer, but wondered if you'd come across the prob and/or if you knew a fix.
Driving me up the wall. Each MP3 I have a prob with is fine locally, is fine when I download it from the server suing a hyperlink, BUT when played thru VbPlayer, it's speed is screwed up.
Any clues?

That would cause a problem, if the CMPS index.php was outside the main vB forum directory.

As for the speed differences on mp3's, this wouldn't be the player causing the problems, but the actual mp3 encoding. If you have varying bitrates, then the mp3's will sound like they are speeding up or slowing down. If you encode all mp3's to use a fixed bitrate of 128k then it should fix this little problem.

I guessed it might be an encoding issue.
It's a radio session converted from real to MP3 so probably allsorts of issues with it.
Thanks for that and your hard work. This is an absolute peach of a mod.

Once I get this CMPS version done and packaged, then I'll start designing a new look mp3 player with much better features, taking into consideration other members suggestions.:)

Thanks for the compliment! :D

Hope the download it function it will then can be implemented :D (i mean for specific usergroups maybe, not just for everyone (put a statement if condition for usergroup=12 for example)

Do you mean, to download the actual mp3 playing at the time having a download link?:confused:

Sounds great.
Wanted to say I've resolved the speed issue by recoding with Lame (as I usually do.. lol ) rather than the poor app/codec I was using previously.
All sorted now, and this is the perfect addition to a music related forum.
I look forward to the updates!

Yes, i mean in the flash player u will make, when i song is selected, to have a download link for the actual mp3, but for a specific usergroup. So they can download the mp3 if they want it:) . Also, maybe display the size of the file somehow? So ppl in slow connections, know what they will encounter?

Anyway, suggestions :)

It could be incorporated, but then there is the matter of copyright infringement. I maybe wrong on this (so don't quote me), but I am under the impression that it's legal to listen to mp3's on the internet, but not to download them, unless you have an original copy. But to me this contradicts itself, because any form of streaming whether it be mp3's or video, can be accessed via your browsers cache anyway.:surprised:

This law does vary considerably from country to country. This is why certain P2P websites carrying torrents, can get away with it.

The actual idea of this modification was just to allow mp3's to be streamed through the player, not actually download them as well. I don't think I've ever seen a mp3 player with download capabilities.:confused:

I am using the latest CMPS and am having issues as well. I tried following what some people were saying but I just want to see what I can do to get this to work. Here's my setup:

Followed all instructions on installation - nothing happens or works on main page or forums.

My paths are as follows:

root\forum\(files are here)
root\cmps_index.php

So, my cmps index is out of the forum directory.

Also, with CMPS I created a special "forum" page so that the portal can wrap around it. This is my existing setup now.

Is there something special that I need to do to get this to work with my CMPS or with my forum?

Thanks in advance.

Ι will use this addon, not for popular songs that of course is illegal to download them, but for other purposes so really for me is legal :) I just asked if it can have a button (or an icon) like this, and use it for specific usergroups (for example i have a usergroup that ppl take it when they write more than 600 messages).

Hope it can be done:D

Is this player capable of playing Shoutcast streams? I'd love ya to death if it did :D

I think I'm going to create a new module for cmps and incorporate this - it works fine externally. I'll post a link when I finish.

Okay I got it to work with CMPS even if the page is outside of the forum. Here's what I did. I'm using latest CMPS and vb 3.6.0.

I created a module template called adv_portal_ipod and you can use the following code:

I then placed the playlist and the vb player on my root and on my root/forum. This is because my cmps is not in the forum. It works great.

fyi.. :)

Cool elricstorm - thanks!:D My coding is slightly different, and I've resized the actual player dimensions to fit the default side blocks of 175 px. I've also incorporated a javascript 'fix' when viewing flash objects in Internet Explorer 6.0 and above.

Would it be okay to modify your code, and add the javascript I've used in the new package?

Bit busy at the moment moving a website, but I could do this a little later.:)

sure thing mate. :)

Cool!:D I'll modify the code and add the js so it's compliant with Internet Explorer, with installation instructions. There will not be much change, apart from a javascript call for the player, and a resized player.

I'll package the whole lot with the autoStart mp3 player swf.:)

i have everything all in the same directory. Change the forum path in the CMPS file to "/" rename the index.php (forumhome) file to something else; i picked forum_index.php. Rename CMPS_index, to index.php. change the pathe to the cmps file in the forumhome/display options.

That does work!:)

What I'm going to do is stop the white outline showing up in Internet Explorer, when you hover your mouse over a flash embedded object, it normally says 'Click to activate and use this control'. It isn't so prominent in the popup, so I didn't add the javascript to disable it, but in a block it probably would be.

questio: people will eventually try browsing to the xml file and find all your mp3 urls, so is there a way to stop that?

Good question... I could add a variable, which could be changed by the user dynamically, so the XML file name wouldn't be the same on every site. Obviously, this would need to be set in the AdminCP, and perhaps with a few other options as well, namely number of playlists, etc which I will bring out in the next version.

This was just going to be a small modification, but the attention it has attracted and members input may well place this into a much larger modification than I first anticipated. Nevertheless, I do appreciate the input which will give me the inclination to improve this modification to a better version.

How would I be able to edit the XML so that I can have my own server host the files? I have Macromedia Dreamweaver and that supports the use of XML files, but I have no clue whatsoever how to use that.

Can you please tell us how we may configure this? BTW, this is AWESOME! Thank you for this mod!

With Dreamweaver installed all you need to do is Right-Click on the plylist.xml file and select Edit with Dreamweaver. It should now open in Dreameaver, in the Code view - If not, click the Code button.

In order for the Flash file to process the data correctly I would suggest you enter the full addresses of the mp3's (In Dreamweaver this will show up in green text) - e.g. www.yourdomain.com/mp3/mysong.mp3 then enter the title and track (the black text).

It also supports messages - by this I mean if you wish to have a scrolling message between certain tracks, then you can just enter the text where the url would go... if the flash file detects no extension e.g. .mp3 then it will display the text as a message.

Hope that explains everything!:)

No matter what I do to the playlist xml, the order of the mp3s is always random on the popup. What can I do to fix that?

The first main vbMp3 Player package has the non-autoStart version of the vbPlayer.swf - this version has a 'shuffle' in it. However, the second zip contains the autoStart vbPlayer.swf with no 'shuffle'. If you download the second player, and overwrite the previous version, it will correct this.

It's the 'shuffle' feature that would be causing that issue. Sorry I should have pointed that out in the documentation for the first player.

Hello, the 50 songs limit is not fixed yet i assume? Hope it does:P

Also, can in the new version, support different playlists? I mean build playlists as an admin with songs in it, and then the user decides which one will play :)

Ps

Mods, this is going to be a major addition :P

That 50 track glitch I should have fixed, in the new version.:)

There will be playlist selection buttons added, to change playlists from the player, combined with many new functions, including Shuffle, Volume, Pan(Balance), etc.

I'm hoping to have an Admincp panel so new features can be used, namely the following:

AdminCP Settings:

• Playlist - Setup of all urls and track details.
• Playlist - Allowing an admin to setup the playlist name and store all tracks in the database as opposed to the XML.
• Sound Buffer and Streaming - All set by Admicp.
• Multiple playlist enabled.
• Usergroup permission settings.

Possible future additions:

• Thumbnail image uploading of album covers, viewable in the player (can be closed if not required).
• Hide track information.
• Equalizer (on player - maybe on next player release).

Obviously, all this will take time since it does involve a lot more coding and flash actionscripting. I will release it has a major addon, since it will also have other addons for the vbAdvanced CMPS portal.

Any other players I make in the meanwhile, will just use XML to populate the flash file.

I have seen many flash players, many have nice skins but then let down by functional controls.:surprised: Personally, if you are going to make a nice looking GUI, then all controls should function.

Oh well, I'll stop babbling and get this CMPS version finsihed and packed!:D

OMG

As i said before, this is a major addition, i wanted to suggest you the Album Cover (and maybe more than one per file if it can be done) per file and equalizer, but you already thought it, so i am just amased :)

Well, I may as well turn this modification into a full major addon since many members have shown alot of interest.:) I didn't intend for this to be so popular, should have released back in March when I originally designed it. But I just never got around to it... lol

Prayers answered.
May the coding be smooth work, and the wind always at your back, syrus:)