Posts Tagged ‘Playr’
Updated version of Playr
Published by Ronny on January 29th, 2010 in Open-source, download. 2 commentsIt took a while… A long while… Like… A year.
But I finally updated Playr and made actual plans for V3. Thanks again for all of your great support and feedback during the past year! It really means a lot to me!
It was really great to see how Playr popped up on different blogs; Sometimes mentioned as part of a project/experiment, sometimes mentioned in lists of handy AS3 classes. That really made me happy and it inspired me to add even more features, and make it even more useful. But those are to yet to be built
For now I just fixed a few bugs and I added a pretty important feature which wasn’t there yet: the debug property. Set debug to true and Playr will trace any errors that occur without breaking your app, without you having to listen to these errorEvents.
I also changed the shuffle internals (I still wonder what I was thinking when I wrote a ’setShuffle’ instead of simple getters/setters…) and as far as I know: Nothing seems broken after updating old projects using Playr to the new Playr version (but I’ve been wrong before…).
And the last thing I want to mention: I changed the way Playr handles stream errors. The old version would just skip the track, and try again later. However I think the new implementation is better: The ‘broken’ track just gets removed from the playlist before proceeding to the next track.
So there you go: It’s online, it’s free, it’s open-source, it’s for you to use and save time!
(And it’s created by me, so you’ll probably find bugs sooner or later: Do tell me about them and I’ll look into fixing them
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Happy playing!
Playr Site: Playr.noCreativity.com
Download Playr: Click
Playr Documentation: Playr.noCreativity.com/docs
Playr 2.0 is here!
Published by Ronny on December 18th, 2008 in Actionscript, Flash, Open-source, download. 2 commentsIt almost took me an eternity, but at last it’s there: Playr 2.0 is ready.
Playr is a Flash Actionscript 3 class built to take the heavy lifting off your hands when building any kind of music player appliction in Flash, Flex or AIR. I put a lot of work and time in this project, and I think the result is amazing: Playr is hands down the easiest way to do so!
I’m very happy to finally release this. A lot of people helped me test it and gave me feedback.
That helped me a lot, and changed a lot of features. Special thanks to all of you!
I’ve put up a dedicated site for Playr where all of the information, code examples, downloads are gathered.
Head over there to read more about it!
More info:
Playr site: Click
Download Playr 2.0: Click
Playr 2.0 documentation: Click
Some more bitmapdata and soundSpectrum progress
Published by Ronny on November 30th, 2008 in Actionscript. No commentsToday I found some time to mess around with bitmapdata and computeSpectrum again. I’ve been playing with this earlier, but didn’t quite get where I wanted to be. A few weeks ago I came up with a better way of rendering the soundTunnel. That resulted in some crazy cool shit, which I finished off today.
I won’t go into technical details here (yet). I just wanted you guys to see the result.
Demo
Click here ![]()
And just to make sure it is actually reacting to the sound, try the following links too
Controls
- F: Go full screen
- S: Freeze visualization
- Click: Change color (happens automatically too)
PlayrDiscovr update!
Published by Ronny on August 19th, 2008 in Open-source, PHP, Projects, download. 2 commentsIk heb enkele dagen geleden mijn eerste versie van de geautomatiseerde playlist.xml gemaakt, en online gezet. Gisteren heeft Ward Werbrouck (die wat meer verstand van PHP dan ik heeft) dit geoptimaliseerd en opgekuist.
Deze versie is volledig object oriented geschreven, en is vanaf nu PHP5-only.
Deze nieuwe versie kun je hier downloaden.
Thx Ward!
PlayrDiscovr: De playlist.xml bouwer!
Published by Ronny on August 15th, 2008 in Open-source, PHP, Projects, download. 3 commentsEnkele dagen geleden heb ik een oproep gedaan om tips en suggesties te krijgen in verband met de nieuwe Playr class. Jarne heeft een geautomatiseerde playlist.xml generator voorgesteld.
Ik heb hier al vaker aan gedacht, maar altijd de hoop opgegeven als ik moest denken aan de ID3 tags… Ik ben geen PHP guru, waardoor ik nooit echt heb beginnen zoeken.
Nu heb ik mij vandaag toch opeens afgevraagd of er nog geen ID3 support in PHP zit…
Daar heb ik in feite geen antwoord op gevonden, maar ik heb wel gevonden wat ik zocht: Een open-source project waarmee de ID3 tags van MP3 bestanden (en meer) kunnen gelezen en gebruikt worden, namelijk getID3.
Sinds dit het moeilijkste van het hele automatiseren was kon ik meteen aan de slag. Ik ben echt positief verrast over hoe simpel getID3 in te zetten is, en hoeveel informatie daarmee op te halen was.
Om een lang verhaal kort te maken heb ik dus nu een geautomatiseerde versie van de playlist.xml gebouwd.
Het leuke is dat je nu zelf de lengte van de track niet meer moet uitrekenen (wat op zich het meest storende van het hele playlist.xml gebeuren was). En natuurlijk: Nooit meer playlists updaten!
PlayrDiscovr
Gebruik
Gewoon PlayrDiscovr unzippen, en de inhoud van de map uploaden naar je server.
De MP3 bestanden komen in de ‘music’ folder te staan.
In Flash moet je nog even de URL naar je playlist aanpassen van ‘playlist.xml’ naar ‘playlist.php’, en je bent klaar. Nooit meer playlists updaten!
PlayrDiscovr haalt alle info over de tracks op vanuit de ID3v2 tag. Als deze dus in orde is, is zijn je playlists automatisch aangepast, vanaf dat je een liedje op de server hebt upgeload.
Veel plezier!



