User Interface - Continuous Flash Music Player While Navigating Site
Jun 16, 2010
I have a site that includes a Flash music player integrated into the layout. I want users to be able to navigate around the site without interrupting the music. I've done plenty of research and thinking and the following are the options I came up with (keeping in mind I want to be as SEO friendly as possible).
AJAX: I set up a version that changes the main content div to whatever nav link they click, thereby not interrupting the Flash player. I set it up in the proper search-engine-friendly manner with direct links and JQuery/Ajax functions. If someone goes to site.com/ and clicks the Contact nav link, it loads what's in the main content div on site.com/contact.php into the main content div and changes the URL bar to site.com/#Contact. The same goes for if they go to site.com/contact.php and click About in the nav, it loads the About content and changes the URL bar to site.com/contact.php#About. Obviously this opens up a whole new can of worms with AJAX and hash navigation/history issues, and I would end up with people possibly linking to things like site.com/contact.php#About (which I think looks terrible and can't be too great for SEO). Store the Flash player vars somewhere and reload them with the page: I'm not sure how to go about this, but I thought about keeping my regular navigation without AJAX and have it so when a user clicks a nav link, before it changes pages it stores the Flash player vars (current song and song position) somewhere, then loads them into Flash when the new page loads. Something with an iframe? Good alternative to a Flash player that will work for this type of application?
I have a generic function to build rows of controls (each row comprising of sliders, radio buttons, reset buttons, text display) etc, and some functionality to change underlying data based on these
As I didn't want to write specific code for each row, I had code written by which I can detect the row on which there has been a mouseevent, and though the row access each individual control
I am fairly new to actionscript 3, and coding in general, and I am trying to build a music application with a user account system, using which each different user can access their own music files.
I have found many tutorials online on how to create music players and playlists, user login systems, but nothing that combines these into one application.
I'm a relatively experienced Web developer, but this is my first foray into playing (streaming) music. All of the music players I've run across either load MP3s from an XML file (which exposes the MP3s' URLs) or have code embedded in them that loads URL-accessible audio files. Due to copyright issues, this is not acceptable for my client's content.So, I'm looking for one of two things...(1) A music player that already exists that either plays music embedded into the FLA itself -or- can read the files from a non-public area on the file system, or(2) Sample code that generally approximates what I'm describing, from which I'll try to construct my own player.
I bought a template for my fiance's music band and also I bought I music player for Demo songs. I integrated it successfully into the website but unfortunately when I try to close the music player the only the site is closing, the music is going to continiue playing in background.
This is the site: soundsix. hu/ test --- menu point DEMO
I have a Mp3 player that plays or mutes the sound depending on if you click it or not.Now where i need help is that the site is a PHP based website and the player is obviously flash.Is there some way to create a cookie or session variable that stores whether you have muted the sound or not from page to page?
Basically, what i want to do is have a home page with some images and things on it, and a menu. When the user clicks on a menu button, i want the images on the homepage to animate away, and be replaced with the chosen page (animated in). I understand how to animate things using Tweens in the timeline and also in As3 using the Tween Class, but for the animation i'd like to do it's so much easier to use the timeline (i don't think i'd be able to use as3 to do really complicated things yet).
I can figure out how to make the home page disappear, but i can't figure out how to then animate in the correct page. If anyone can point me in the direction of a good tutorial or just give me some hints i'd be sooo grateful!! I think i'm just struggling to get my head into it.
I have a movie clip called player where there is a code to pull a background music through an xml file. In the same movie clip, there is play and pause controls. Here's the code:
I put this movie clip in the first scene and the music continues when I change the scene. So far so good. But if I put the movie clip in the other scenes, to control the music on the scene, the music resumed and the first music never stops.
I have a bunch of scenes, and I have a continuous song that plays over them. I'll simplify below to better specify my intentions.
Game Menus
Scene 1: Music placed on timeline, plays throughout the next 3 scenes (menus) Scene 2: Music uninterrupted and continuos from Scene 1 (desired effect). Scene 3: Music uninterrupted and continuos from Scene 1 (desired effect).
Game
Scene 4: Completely new music for this scene. The music from the previous Scenes 1-3 (or Scene 1's music) still plays [until it is finished]. Scene 4's music is overlapped with it. This is not a desired effect. I'd like Scene 1 music to silence and Scene 4's music to play.
Things I've tried: 1. Thought maybe I'd make Scene 1's music "stream" but when I go to Scene 2 or 3, the music is off.
2. Thought maybe on Scene 4 I could do something to tell the music from Scene 1 to silence
What can be the cause of the YouTube player not working (playing, buffering, firing api events) if I don't continuously move the cursor over the player?
I'd like to know if someone of you guys has any experience in using Flash (and AS 3.0) to create user interface for Crestron system. I'm experiencing few problems with the management of feedback join
I see that the background music in my Flash site is located in a symbol called muz When I click the properties of this symbol, the sound file's location is listed as.flashsoundmuz.wav I couldn't find that sound sub-folder in the flash folder nor could I find the file. I tried doing a search to look for the muz.wav file in my computer but it could not be found. Does anyone know how I can find and save this file?
I'm starting a blog with a hosted wordpress instance and i would like to be able to stream music using a flash player on some posts.The problem is that every player i find uses a simple param to get the file url which makes it very easy for someone to find that url and just download the file.I know that it's probably impossible to prevent this all together, but i at least don't want it to be obvious.
I am a vision impaired developer who needs to enlarge the text in the user interface of CS4 Flash Professional. Is there a way to increase the font size for the text in the user interface of the application, menus and panels for example? I have not been able to find any setting in the preferences for doing this.
I have a flash player with an external javascript interface: reloadData() I'm calling that function via Javascript when editing information on the page - basically to keep data on the page and in the player in synch. The reloadData() function works fine when the player is hosted locally. When we move it to the CDN (Amazon Cloudfront), the player loads successfully, but the external javascript interface no longer works - console.log(player) reveals the following:
<object type=,"application/x-shockwave-flash" data="[our_cloudfront_url].swf" width="920" height="404" id="player" style="visibility:visible;"> Uncaught TypeError: Object #<an HTMLObjectElement> has no method 'reloadData'
I know there are a lot of things that behave differently when working with items on a CDN, but we're using a CNAME to point to the cloudfront distribution (buildid.ourdomain.net => distributionid.cloudfront.net)
[URL]. One thing though is that when a track is played it doesn't advance to the next one in the playlist. I read everything there is (probably not) on the onSoundComplete 'stuff' but couldn't figure it out to make it work!
I'm creating a website for a local band and in this site is an animated banner with a music player incorporated on it. The banner has been made in Flash using AS2.I'm having a bit of a problem at the moment figuring out a way to get my 'Next' and 'Previous' buttons working, so that once they are clicked the user can toggle through different songs, and be able to play and stop each song as they require.
i need a flash player (to embed in a html file) that can play external files mp3 through xml and just a simple play and pause buttons... i've been searching in google but it just shows up players with a big playlists and too much buttons for my work
Anyone have any idea about how works the player ReverbNation? When I'm browsing the website, the player don't stop. It's still playing the song without pause o cut. And nor have frame/iframes.
I currently have an HTML website but add some music.The specific type of music player I want looks a lot like this:[URL]It seems that it is flash based.how I can find the proper code and steps in adding this to my current HTML based website? Is it even possible since my site is not a flash site?I adore this music player but I'm not sure how it would work and where I can find the proper information on either downloading it or coding it into my website.
Im trying to create a flash music player much like the one at [URL].. but I cant seem to get it to load the swf files that are the songs and im stumped as to why. Ill post my player .fla and .txt file playlist along with my test swf song if anyone
Basically what I'm looking to do is build a music player in flash and embed it into an HTML page. Now the trick is, I need the player to stay present when a user clicks thru different areas of the site. (I.E. different html pages) However I do not want the flash to reload each time they go to a different page. Is there a way to have the Flash sit on top of HTML pages and not refresh when a user goes to a different page, or an alternative would be for when the next page loads, the music player knows where it left off and starts from its ending point on the page before. Building the site in iFrames or any frames will not be an option. The solution I was looking at was to set the page up like the music player was a transparent promotion ad like you see on so many pages these days and see if I could just keep it present when clicking from page to page. This doesnt seem to work.
I am working on a full browser flash site and just realized the coding was as3. I really need this to work with AS2 and I am a noob at flash. I have figured it out mostly except I keep getting one error. "The class or interface 'flash.events.Event' could not be loaded." Here is the script:
I have an mp3 player embedded in an include file on my site with swfObject. How do I set it up that it will continue to play the current song when clicking through to another page? I know there is some js involved but I havent been able to find the best info on how to accomplish this. My as3 here:
I am trying to figure out if it's possible to embed an external flash music player (in this case sound cloud) to play some of my own tracks in my flash site. I don't want to create my own player as the sound cloud player is really nice and also has stats.
