Awesome! I have been waiting for something like this. Thanks! :D

Did you install the vBavanced CMPS Portal? It doesn't look like you have.

To place the modification on your main forum home would require a 'FORUMHOME' template edit in the style you are using. At the moment I have not done this modfication to work from the forum home.

Hi bandare,

Both skins will be released with popup and CMPS versions (the CMPS will be for center column only). Timescale, possibly the 'Black Gloss' version I will release sometime this week, and the Silver version about a week later.

Busy with other projects at the moment but, I'm trying to get the players done at the same time.;)

hey I did install VBa CMPS because i can see it in admin panel. Also When i click on edit module, i see VbMP3 player. I have also put it under the Right Column. so i think i installed VBa CMPS. what should i do then.

I just checked, and sorry I should have checked this earlier - in the CMPS instructions it does inform you to change your vBulletin index.php to something else, then change the cmps_index.php to index.php. Then your site will have the portal on the front.

I can see it at http://forums.bollyjaan.com/cmps_index.php - so you obviously have installed it, but I don't see the mp3 player - but this could be due to the way you have set your permissions for guests. But as an admin you should be able to see the module at this address.

Thanks a lot. I am going to wait for those i think as they look awesome!

I have to ask... is it LEGAL to put commercial songs up for listening like that?

Good question. According to the **AA, everything is illegal. From their website:

And it's not cheap - licenses can cost you thousands of dollars a year. However, sites such as MySpace.com & AOL's Streamcast have high-quality full length songs available in huge numbers. So if you look at it that way, it must be legal as they've been doing it for years now without any ramifications.

This question has been answered previously on this thread, however I will answer it again.

The **AA is an american body, and does not have worldwide control of laws relating to music. Some countries have laws which allows anyone to legally place music on their websites, for streaming, etc.

Other exclusions include bands/artists that like to promote themselves freely over the internet, there are many US websites that employ this already.

There are also contradictions on this issue, in some countries it is legal to listen to streaming music, but illegal to download. This is where a loophole exists since if music is streamed, it is also 'cached', meaning it would be available in your browsers cache.

Then you have other various other combinations, example - you are hosting mp3's on a server which is based in a country where streaming is perfectly legal, but you are based in a country where it is illegal to listen to streaming music.

You also find there are sites that allow you to use their music legally. So it really is a difficult question, regarding legal issues. It depends, if the tracks are illegal in your country (if hosted on servers within your country), if the artist/band offers their music for free for promotion (1,000's do nowadays), there is so many loopholes, really to know where an actual person stands.

So many people have used this modification on their websites to specifically allow their members to stream their own music they have recorded themselves, and just want others to listen to their music for free.

This modification itself is free to use, but how it is implemented is another matter and legalities is just another issue. I've had many requests for using multiple playlists, so people can have their own recordings in separate playlists - I will be adding this into the major release at a later date.

Is it possible to have the launched window be automatically closed if somebody closes the main browser that the player was launched from? In other words, if somebody goes to http://www.yoursite.com, launches the player, and then leaves the main site that the launched player would close.

So basically, if I live in the US, and my members will all live in the US - I can't use this hack legally if I were to use it to play commercially available music? Bummer :(

Not necessarily... it depends where you host the actual mp3's. Any country where it's legal to use mp3 streaming, could be used.

However, I'm not sure how the US law stands with respect to mp3 streaming into users computers from a foreign country.:confused: There are alot of contradictions on this subject.

I've never really thought about that... However I can see the reason why it would be a good idea. It would save on bandwidth consumption. Not too sure how I would accomplish the task though. I'll have to see if this is possible...

Cool. I think you may be able to use the vB smilies page as a starting reference (eg: You launch the smilie box when writing a reply and when you exit the page the smilie window automatically closes).

Thanks for looking into it. :)

Great Hack syrus!

It works fine, but i dont know how to play a Shoutcast mp3 Radio Webstream, does this work?

Syrus (or anyone)..
Just where do the MP3's cache too when streaming?
Installed this on another forum now and got a problem with one of the MP3's again. So, deleted the MP3 from the server, but the player is still playing it, regardless of my deleting all temp internet files, cookies, closing browser session, temp files etc. Using Firefox - driving me up the wall trying to find where it's caching to.

This flash player I didn't design to work with Shoutcast, it would require further coding to use Shoutcast - perhaps a possibility for a future version. At the moment it is only populated via direct mp3 urls in the XML file, the version in development will be read directly from the vBulletin database and all tracks can be entered in the AdminCP, along with many other parameters.:)

Hello, I installed your add-on and is great!

However I wonder when the pro version will be out, and if its a way to include more than one play list, like use the Menu and change to another play list, and some way to bookmark your favorite song, also to filter what kind of music you want to listen :).

Also on your pro version, could you make a horizontal layout option, so it shows the song only follow by a next / back/ stop / play / etc buttons on a black ipop cover :O!

I installed this but I can't hear whats playing. My speakers work but when I click play to one of the 2 songs, I can't hear anything? Is there something else I need to do? Carmen

What an absolutely awesome hack!!! *INSTALLED*

Thanks!!

The two example tracks are prone to slow download, from the server they are on. Try entering some tracks of your own, this should correct the problem.

The pro version will be released probably within a few months, as it requires alot more coding than this simple modification. As for the features it will use, they are currently listed in the main post towards the bottom.

As for favorite bookmarking, this is something I haven't even thought of yet, so it maybe incorporated into the pro version, as it will require use of the vbulletin database.

There are other skinned players I will be releasing before the pro version that will have more features than the current one, however playlist switching will not be available until the pro version release.

Until the new version is out, I'm "mixing it up" for my members by using several different folders of different music with 50 songs in each, and several copies of the playlist with the URL's edited accordingly. When I want to "shuffle" for the members, I just overwrite the playlist. *Waiting for new version* :)

I could add a playlist switch to the new skinned players, just takes a bit more coding in the player, nothing really drastic though. Just need to sort the code to unload one XML file and load another. I'll see maybe I will add this feature, eventhough it will function better in a version with AdminCP control. :D

No worries... my members have more songs than they could listen to in a day anyway. This is one sweeeeet mod. :D

Here's a question:

I have my music on the server in different folders (rock, classic rock, country)... do the MP3's all have to be called from the same folder by the playlist? What I mean is, can I edit the URL's in the playlist to call the MP3's from different folders to mix them up? Or do they have to be in the same folder? (As long as there is only 50 songs in the playlist, right?) :)

The playlist will accept mp3's from virtually anywhere, as long as the url/path is entered correctly. It supports internal and external hosted mp3's, obviously if the mp3's are on an external host then you may notice a delay while retrieving the mp3 data, this is why I designed the player to use stream/soundbuffer feature. The player does have a default value for buffering of 5 secs, which can be overrided using a different value in the XML file.

If I incorporate the XML playlist switching, then the player will have buttons to select various playlists on-demand and I'll fix the under 50 mp3's per playlist bug.

I may add the 'shuffle' enable/disable button as well.:)

Awesome :)

I have a plenty of space and transfer on my server. I have a gig of songs for my members to listen to, in category folders.

I just need to play around with the playlist and make several of them to mix things up until the new version comes out. Thanks much. :D

The 2 player.swf files have a slight difference between them. The first download has the 'shuffle' tracks enabled, while the second version has it disabled.

I just installed this and for some reason I uploaded the songs and urled them, but nothing is playing... when it pops up, it shows the name and 0:00 mins...

If the track name is showing then the data from the XML files is read correctly, however if the track doesn't start playing (no time showing), then the url maybe incorrect to the mp3's or the server they are hosted on has a slow connection.

Hope that helps!:)

Hello, first off. Great Hack!

Im using a custon so editing my navbar wont make the " mp3 player " tag show up. I want to put the mp3 player where it says " Advertise ", of course ill change the " Advertise " pic to Mp3 Player but I dont know how. Can you advise me on how to do it. Below is the code in my header template & I know where the " # " is where i should put the path to the mp3 player but im lost when it comes to that. Can you tell me what should go there bro. Thanks

Hi, and thanks!:)

You will still need the javascript in the code, for the popup to work. The part of the code with the '#' symbol in tells your browser not to change the current page (but is needed for the popup code to work correctly). You're not the first to ask this question with reference to having a custom style, I remember someone else had a similar query.

Here's the modified code you would need.

Obviously, you would change the 'advertise.gif' to whatever the image you wish to use for the player.

Hope that helps you!:)

coo, thanks bro.

Hey I'm having some problems when I edit the XML file. I uploaded the songs that I want onto my server in a folder, and then I placed the URL into the XML file. BUT when I bring up the player from my forums the only songs that appear are the default ones that came with. Why is that, and what am I doing wrong? Thanks

Hi there,

Can you PM me the url of the site, I'll have a look for you.:)

nice feature syrus.xl :cool: my members are loving this :laugh: many thanks!!

Voted for mod of the month! ;)

:D Thanks, appreciated. I think the future releases will merit that though, not this small-mod. To me its just too small.;)

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