afAMP : Another Flash MP3 Player

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• Author & contact: Pierre-Yves Gosset (http://pyg.keonox.com)
• License: GNU/GPL , you must leave the html comment line within player integration.
• Credits: wow, lots of people, here is a short list:
  • Tutorials URLs
    • http://www.sonify.org/home/feature/remixology/ : Hayden Porter's articles about adaptative buffering helped me a lot
    • http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.asp?p=174374&seqNum=1
    • http://www.kennybellew.com/tutorial/index.html
    • http://flashkit.org/ for ideas and help
  • Sounds and audio files (this sounds are copyrighted by their own authors).
    • http://www.e-carel.org/ for the 32kbps audio files
    • http://www.publicdomain4u.com/ for Mississippi_John_Hurt--Frankie song (56kbps)
    • http://healingpiano.com/music.html for the Chuck Brown's Amberwaves song (128kbps)

Goals

To replace our Real audio files on our websites (more than 1 000), we need an audio player with the following functionnalities:

• Ease of plugin installation (contrary to RealPlayer)
• No ads into plugin (contrary to RealPlayer)
• No firewall issues (contrary to RealPlayer)
• "Really" cross-browser compatible integration (contrary to RealPlayer)
• Ligthweight (7KB) and cpu resources optimized (contrary to RealPlayer)
• Play multiple mp3 sound files...
• ... of different size/length...
• ... on the same webpage (or different if using frames)
• Sound information (position, buffer, time remaining,...)
• Sound manipulation (play/stop/pause, live repositioning, volume control...)
• Bandwith detection and adaptative buffering to be (almost) sure that the audio file wouldn't stop during playing
• Sound files may be passed by Javascript, so there's no need to edit the .fla source file or the Flash player snippet code.
• Ease the interface modification (buttons, colors, elements)
• Language independent

Caveat

This is my first ActionScript code, so there's probably lots of errors into code structure and logic. So please be lenient.

Everyone needs a specific player, and mine won't respond exactly to your needs, feel free to modify them to reach your goals, but as I'm (really) not a flash expert, don't ask me how to do this, there's a lot of flash tutorials around the web (see links above). In other words, there's no support for the player, but if you found some bugs, you may contact me by http://pyg.keonox.com/

Downloads

Player  

This is the standard version. Best fit into 220x30 pixels.

• version: 1.4
• Downloads (right click) : (ready to use) - (source Flash file)

DemoPlayer  

DemoPlayer is more here for demonstration purpose (it's not really cute ;)). It display a lot of quite useless informations, and use quite some cpu. But it's a good start to see the code possibilities.

• Demo
• version: 1.4
• Downloads (right click) : .swf (ready to use) - .fla (source Flash file)
• See main source ActionScript code

Changelog & ToDo List

Changelog

• 1.4 (29/11/2004)
  • Added autolaunch option
• 1.3 (27/11/2004)
  • Added <param> tag support
  • Improved Bandwith detection
  • Added fscommand support
  • Give a project name ;) : afAMP
  • Bugfixes
• 1.2 (25/11/2004)
  • Redigned player interface
  • Added loop functionnality
  • Improved adaptative buffering ability
  • Bugfixes
• 1.1 (25/10/2004)
  • Redigned player interface
  • Improved adaptative buffering ability
• 1.0 (15/10/2004)
  • first draft   

Todo  

• More testing :-/
• Add examples for playlist ability with fscommand
• Add an option to load a sound using a param tag, waiting for user to press Play button instead of playing it immediatly (done in 1.4)
• Change buttons design using aplha layer and transparency to give a better display on player resizing or when changing background colors
• Adaptative buffering: compute my_security protection depending on computed badwith
• Adaptative buffering: use Dynamic Shared Objects to store computed bandwith and avoid permanent bandwith detection
• Player is still under hard development to add more functionnalities, see this page (only in french) :
  • sound title display (not using ID tag)
  • sound artist display (not using ID tag)
  • go to predefined website url (to download mp3 or load artist website)
  • load playlist from an XML file ;)

Index

Usage

Customisation