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Huge Improvements to the Flash Music Player – Autoresume, Volume, Shuffle, and more

Posted on Tuesday 12 May 2009

I upgraded the XSPF player to a hugely improved version I found here:
http://www.boutell.com/xspf/
Now, as you surf the site, the music will auto-resume to where you left off. Also, if you stop the music, it remains stopped as you surf other pages or come back to my site later.
The enhanced XSPF player also allowed me to set the default volume from the start (50%), allows you to seek through songs, and allows you to shuffle and repeat tracks.
Thank you, Fabrico Zuardi (original creator), Lacy Morrow (shuffle version), and Boutell.com (auto-resume version)!

Edit:
Looking at the ActionScript, I realize I was wrong, after a minute auto-resume times out and the site will go back to playing from the beginning. This was a feature programmed so that auto-resume only jumps between pages. I’m debating turning off the one-minute time-out. What do you think? Is auto-play acceptable if the volume is turned down? When you come back to a site days later, do you want it to resume playing music where you left off?


1 Comment for 'Huge Improvements to the Flash Music Player – Autoresume, Volume, Shuffle, and more'

  1.  
    chris
    June 10, 2009 | 6:40 pm
     

    It’s not working in Safari for me. I can get it to work in Firefox, Netscape… yet not in Safari 3.2.1 on all the macs around me. Any suggestions.. on how to make it autoresume in Safari?

    I’m basically looping one file with autoresume across a website.

    Thanks
    chris

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