Playing a stream from a position

[lopez1_de]

Hi,

flash can play streams (mp3, wav) from any position (if it was loaded). I can't figure out how this works with 3dfa.

Can anyone help me?

I tried this which won't work:

    music.start();
    music.position = the_new_position; 

thx

[lopez1_de]

I figured it out.

music.start(wanted_position_in_seconds/1000); //position in millisecs

now i want to make a mp3 stream player with xml playlist. maybe a server side, php driven playlist.

[blanius]

Cool I was trying to figure that out myself and was at a loss

[cyber reaper]

am i the only one here who never figure my mistakes up by myself...well the hard ones i dont...the small stupid stuff i am (random stuff etc)

[lopez1_de]

jeah. watch this..

done with 3dfa

mp3 stream player v1

still working on xml playlist

have a nice day

[lopez1_de]

don't forget that you can use the positionbar to goto any loaded song position!

and that id3 tag is displayed in the scroller! (i used getid3.org)

[blanius]

Very cool indeed

What is Audio Archive?

[lopez1_de]

audioarchive is a server where you can place your music files. a free storage for music

[lopez1_de]

I need 7 more posts to have an avatar


now 6

[cyber reaper]

its always nice to see some one who finished his work...nice job

i afried i toke on myself some project wich will take mounths to finish...

anyway good job on that player ove there , im curiose ,how did you make the song name to appeer as small dots ? and hod did you make it move from right to left ?

[lopez1_de]

thx. it's good to hear that somebody like that work.

1:
ok. the dot font is a simple font i found on the web.
be shure that the font has a fixed width!!

2:
and here the scroller code

first place a edit box and set the variable to "scroller"

startup script:

scroll_max=19;   //the maximal characters to display
scroll_pos=0;  // initial scroller position
scroll_dir=true;  //scroll direction, true=scroll right, false=scroll left
scroller = "MP3 STREAM PLAYER"; //the initial text of the scroller 

then we need a timer, started every 10 frames (20 frames/second is the movie set).
timer script:

if (songname!=""){
    if (scroll_dir==true) {
        scroll_pos++;
    } else {
        scroll_pos--;
    }
} 

now the scroller script: (songname is the string with the song title)
runs every 1 frame!

    scroller = songname.slice(scroll_pos,scroll_pos+scroll_max);

    if ((scroll_pos+scroll_max)==songname.length && scroll_dir==true) {
        scroll_dir=false;
    }
    
    if (scroll_pos==0 && scroll_dir==false) {
        scroll_dir=true;
    } 

thats it

next week i show you the xml playlist feature.
this player will play local files also! listen to cd's, local files and web streams. what a nice thing.


my inspiration:
wimpy player

[lopez1_de]

now i have done the xml playlist.

have a look http://www.ejected.de/player/

try do play a local file with

file:///c:\anyfile.mp3


have a nice day

[lopez1_de]

please report bugs here.

thank you!

[Zombiekilla]

That is 1 nice program well u should make it downloadable to becuz its small and alot better to use while playing games then windows media player lol

[cyber reaper]

its cool all right and all but i think i can make it even cooler if ill photo my sterio and make it as a skin for your program , if you like just send me the sorce file and ill try to make it when ill have some free time , all credit of cours will go to you ....

[blanius]

This is really great... Good work!

I hope you will share your source, but I understand if you don't

[neederofhelp]

Being like the only one who has dial-up on this forum...

The player doesn't work exactly right with a dial-up connection. It messes up the song because it doesn't have time to load the entire song before reaching the end. So the bar that shows the position of the song is going back and forth.

[lopez1_de]

That is 1 nice program well u should make it downloadable to becuz its small and alot better to use while playing games then windows media player lol

yes, if it's finished i'll make it downloadable for everyone. but without the 3dfa source file

its cool all right and all but i think i can make it even cooler if ill photo my sterio and make it as a skin for your program , if you like just send me the sorce file and ill try to make it when ill have some free time , all credit of cours will go to you ....

yeah. another skin would be great. but its hard to change the pictures in the moment.

This is really great... Good work!

I hope you will share your source, but I understand if you don't

thank you. i don't like to share the source. but if somebode have a question. ask me!

Being like the only one who has dial-up on this forum...

The player doesn't work exactly right with a dial-up connection. It messes up the song because it doesn't have time to load the entire song before reaching the end. So the bar that shows the position of the song is going back and forth.

yes you be!

what you think i can do to fix this. for modem users (or somebody who have not anough bandwith to stream files) the player must wait until a minimum ammount auf bytes are loaded until it starts playing. mh
what do the others think?


now most bugs are fixed. the playlist is a fully xml formatted playlist.
note: only id3v2 is supported. because id3v2 is on the beginning of a file (id3v1 at the end). to show id3v1 tags the whole song must be loaded. but the id3tag is received with a php script and downloaded to a webserver. (this is to much traffic)

you can play local files with:
file:///c:\anyfile.mp3

MP3 STREAM PLAYER


please feel free to save playlists and use this player.
please report bugs. the final version is for free download.

bye

[blanius]

how are you loading the XML file? I notice that the flash player askes for permission to access a file so I assume you are not using loadXML, or is that for the file itself?

I totaly understand about not releasing the source code, but how about a sample of the XML and the parsing of the XML and how you load the mp3 files.

[lopez1_de]

how are you loading the XML file? I notice that the flash player askes for permission to access a file so I assume you are not using loadXML, or is that for the file itself?

I totaly understand about not releasing the source code, but how about a sample of the XML and the parsing of the XML and how you load the mp3 files.

loading xml:

list_xml = new XML;
list_xml.ignoreWhite;
list_xml.load (base_url+"/playlists/"+loadthis_playlist+".xml");

if (list_xml.loaded){
    var rootnode = list_xml.childNodes[0];
    for (n=0; n<rootnode.childNodes.length; n++){
        track_counter++;
        var node = rootnode.childNodes[n];
        for (var i=0; i<node.childNodes.length; i++){ 
            var chnode = node.childNodes[i];
            track_name[track_counter]=getsongname(chnode.childNodes[0].toString());
            track_url[track_counter]=chnode.childNodes[0].toString();
        }
    }
    show_tracks();
} 

load mp3 file:

    if(track_counter>0){
        if (music_pause==true) {
            music_pause=false;
            music.start(pause_pos/1000);
        } else {
            if(track_play==0){
                track_play=1;
                url = track_url[track_play];
            }
            reset_scroller();
            music=new Sound();
            music.loadSound (url,true);
            music.start();
        }
        music.setVolume (volume);
        element ("playpos").show();
        element ("play_perc").show();
        music_play=true;
        status="PLAY >";
            
        songname=getsongname(url);
        trackcount=track_play+"/"+track_counter;
            
        // get id3 tag
        if (got_id3==false) {
            if (url.substr(0,7)=="http://"){
                //web file -> id3v2 only
                loadVariables (base_url+"/id3.php?id3v=2&remotefilename="+url,"POST");
            } else {
                //local file
            }
        }
    } 

have a nice day