Player Chaining - automatically start playing next mp3 file [#362725]

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.

Comments

Comment #1

jdelaune CreditAttribution: jdelaune commented 22 January 2009 at 19:05

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» Postponed

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.

Comment #2

Wound CreditAttribution: Wound commented 28 January 2009 at 00:14

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.

Comment #3

jdelaune CreditAttribution: jdelaune commented 28 January 2009 at 22:53

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.

Comment #4

jastylr CreditAttribution: jastylr commented 25 July 2011 at 04:53

This issue is old but I was wondering if the ability to chain multiple songs into a single player has been revisited. I would like to use MP3 Player to play sort of a soundtrack for instance, one song after another. It would be nice to be able to upload multiple FileField audio files to a node and then have a single MP3 Player play them in succession with the ability to skip to the previous or next song.

If this already exists in the latest version of the player, then I did not see anything mentioning this.

Thanks

Comment #5

VM CreditAttribution: VM commented 1 August 2011 at 22:27

It still does not exist which should explain why there was nothing mentioned and this feature request wasn't marked as fixed.

Based on the comments in #1 and #3, The drupal module has to work within the confines of the wordpress player code/js. Id guess that until such time as someone creates a player with code/js specifically for Drupal.