Comments on: TrackSeek

By: oxchronxo

oxchronxo — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:57:34 +0000

I haven’t looked into it in awhile. I’m thinking maybe flash must buffer the entire song before it can expose the length, which is what I’m using to calculate offsets and snap points in the seek bar. I’ll try to make some time to look into this. Maybe since I wrote the code the underlying player has changed and possibly exposes that property earlier. Make sense ?

By: oxchronxo

oxchronxo — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:54:33 +0000

Thanks for catching the Fup. I guess it’s been that way for awhile, maybe a month or more. Turns out it was a rouge wordpress plugin called “Page Restrict” which doesn’t seem to work with newer wordpress.

By: Aaron Fooshee

Aaron Fooshee — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:06:36 +0000

I can’t read the comments. I see there are 27 comments and portions of them show up in the sidebar but one every page no comments are visible and below the comment number is “No Comments Yet”.

I’m having an issue with the slider taking too long to generate anything usable. A person must wait about 10 seconds without clicking on it before the slider and timer is accurate and functional. Is this common? Perhaps it is similar to Adib’s problem (but not sure, can only see first couple dozen words of his comment). Thanks for any insight. I think your scripts are going in the right direction.

By: Aaron Fooshee

Aaron Fooshee — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:44:16 +0000

Just what i was looking for. Thanks.

P.S. Your script declarations above are missing a &rt; after “text/javascript”

By: oxchronxo

oxchronxo — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:30:13 +0000

I am in the process of splitting up my sites personal/work so I have removed the working example for now. I will put it back up once the dust settles.

To answer a few questions about people having problems…

First of all this was an overnight hack and I’ve only touched the code once since then. This was really a prototype to show that it could be done with pretty limited work. So if there are edge cases that don’t work, so be it. Works for me and that was my goal. The code is open so anyone can take it and fix problems they find.

The guts behind the player is a flash player and I have no idea how that works but I am pretty sure that it depends on how the file is served. If the file is streamed then seeking should work as soon as the song starts and if the file is not streamed then the entire thing would need buffered. Maybe someone who knows more about the player itself can speak more specifically to that point.

By: Luiz

Luiz — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:32:21 +0000

Hi, it seems it doesn’t work.

By: Herb Paulding

Herb Paulding — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:16:09 +0000

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By: Adib

Adib — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:59:27 +0000

Thanks bro. It works.

But I noticed that if the mp3 is long or is quite heavy with a few MBs, then the bar wouldn’t be of any use. Perhaps maybe after its fully buffered. What is quite sad is that the mp3s that are long are the ones that need the track seeker most. I hope you’ll be able to work around this issue fast and easily.

By: nori

nori — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:03:51 +0000

hey eric,
thanks for the great hacks of the ymp.
i was wondering if you had found a way to have the player continue playback of the same track while you change the pages on your website?

i have long dj mixes and it would be great to be able to view my other pages without the music stopping.

thought id check.

thanks again.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:18:17 +0000

Andrew,

I’m speculating here because I don’t know exactly how the player works under the hood as I didn’t write it. Unless the files you are playing are being streamed or the player is utilizing progressive downloading(which it does not appear to be) then yes the entire file would need downloaded.

Does the file start playing before the seek bar is available ? I will check this out as well.