Flash players are fantastic, great idea yes.. file by file MP3s are working perfect!
problems, they are not working with standard m3u. (mp3)
Does anyone KNOW if there could be a way (without server side scripting à la PHP/ASP), with just client side scripting (javascript) to create on the fly a working XSPF playlist ?
www.jeroenwijering.com : that player is especially great for playlists too.. but not m3u (like every flash players anyway).
With all the excellent available variable and parameters in HFS, with a little scripting on strings (names), with regular files & folders naming (my files are always XX - name.mp3 (here), and folders artist name - year - album name ... should be possible to create ok *.xspf. Now, could a flash player recognize on the fly a specialy created *.XSPF -as javascript can't write on HD..- (just need to place on the fly artist names, album name, track name.. rest is logical and always similar) ?
PS:
Be careful with your <EMBED> tags in IE7 : IE7 no longer tolerate at all incomplete <OBJECT> tags... even less non standard <EMBED> alone = ignored definitively. To play on IE7 and Firefox &Co, you must have a PERFECT <OBJECT> with all the necessary well defined flash qualifying params inside.. and an <EMBED> tag embedded inside at the end. I had to rewrite properly for it my loosy (but working perfect in IE6..) <OBJECT> 'pre-built' tag for
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_MP3_Player ... IE7 much more picky than IE6... but also 100%compliant to W3C full norm.. but even more picky.
BTW..
The <EMBED> MS player formulas doesn't work either here with the (on paper) great idea %encoded-folder%~files.lst.m3u : when in a protected folder, MS Player seems to be unable to understand correctly the login/pass for the mp3 inside the playlist: blocked here. Only Winamp able here to correctly play perfectly, with the url as such, the automatically generated *.M3u playlist... but winamp is working great.. manually (and externally only so). VLC and/or Ms Player full external players are also not able to use also the *.m3u in protected folders; only Winamp. But of course Winamp can't be embedded, not a real solution too ; have you realy succeeded to play the Ms plugin correctly (with protected folders) ?