Player Chaining - automatically start playing next mp3 file
Wound - January 22, 2009 - 18:20
| Project: | MP3 Player |
| Version: | 6.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | postponed |
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Description
On completion of playing one mp3, send a signal to the next or a random player on the same node, page or view to begin playback.
This is especially useful for music albums.
#1
This was a feature (well all the tracks played in one player one after the other), but I had to remove it because it was quite unstable. Might look into it again in the future when I get time.
#2
Somehow I like the independent players. How hard would it be to completely realize this with an event chaining mechanism, instead of a single player? Where were the problems before. I would like to discuss this, because it is a feature I really need. Maybe I could contribute to the code, as soon as we agree on a strategy.
First the players have to be addressable by eachother.
Then dependent on the context, the decesion, which player sends the "PLAY!" signal to which other player has to be made deterministically by each player. That means all players agree upon the play order without communicating.
Different ordering methods or player chains over nodes, pages or whatever are secondary.
#3
Not going to happen you would have to somehow communicate between flash and javascript, and I don't even have control over the code in the WordPress Audio Player. The only way to chain files is within one player as that's what's built in.