Please add a web-based audio player

Hi Daniel-

Thanks for the compliments, and the idea.

I often just use totem-mozilla to play mp3's in the browser with Musica.

I can't abide flash, but I'd be interested in something HTML5-ish that
supports playlists. Would you know how to write something like this?

:-Dustin

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 4:10 PM, daniel <email address hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
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> I absolutely love musica! I have all my music on a small ARM-based linux NAS (NSLU2) and am using musica via an ssh tunnel. While this works great, a nice enhancement would be to (optionally) being able to play the music directly, e.g. via a flash-based music player or even the new HTML5 <audio> element, preferably something that supports playlists.
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> Flash player options would be e.g. the Creative Commons or MPL 1.1
> licensed http://flash-mp3-player.net/
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> Hope you like the idea,
>
> Daniel
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> ** Affects: musica
>     Importance: Undecided
>         Status: New
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> Please add a web-based audio player
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/555347
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:-Dustin

This looks nice:

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/06/audio-player-html5/

Okay, I hacked on this a while tonight, and all-in-all, it's much easier said than done :-/

Here's what I've learned:
 * Firefox does not support embedded mp3 inside of <audio> elements (licensing issue), though .ogg works fine.

I played with mpg321, and I can get it to convert mp3's to ogg's (about 7 seconds for a 3 minute song). But this clearly isn't ideal for the amount of data that would need to be cached/stored, as well.

hmm, no mp3 on firefox doesnt sound good... but chrome supports mp3s in the audio tag. Dont know how well it works though (http://osdir.com/ml/chromium-bugs/2010-01/msg01648.html)

How about using a Java applet for embedded audio playback. Heres a very nice winamp clone (LGPL) that plays mp3 and ogg.
http://www.javazoom.net/applets/jlguiapplet/jlguiapplet.html

Im not giving up yet :-)

Thanks for looking into embedded audio player support,

Daniel

... for the sake of completeness. Here are two very nice html5 audio players:

http://simulacre.org/mootools-html5-audio-player/#

http://www.jezra.net/projects/pageplayer

I'm not giving up either ;-)

Okay, so I think the "requirements" for me would be:

Primary (must haves):
 1) Is (reasonably simple) GPL code (ideally, not Java, but javascript okay)
 2) Works in Firefox
 3) Works with mp3's

Secondary (should haves):
 4) Works in Chromium/Chrome
 5) Works with ogg's

Tertiary (would be nice to have):
 6) Works with IE/Safari

I'm happy to release a musica that has a bundled web-based audio player as soon as we can satisfy 1-3, and we can work on 4-6 eventually.

Sound reasonable?

sounds good :-)

I just stumbled upon jPlayer, a MIT / GPL licensed audio player that:
- uses HTML 5 <audio> (ogg, mp3, ...) if the browser supports it
- falls back to "invisible" flash if html5 <audio> is not supported for the given file format

Basically, jPlayer covers all of your items 1-6, and nicely abstracts from individual html5 audio format capabilities

Heres a website with some demos:
http://www.happyworm.com/jquery/jplayer/latest/demos.htm

Heres a demo of its html5 audio browser capability checks:
http://www.happyworm.com/jquery/jplayer/HTML5.Audio.Support/

what do you think?

oh, and it has support for playlists (e.g. for the album view) too :-)

This bug was fixed in the package musica - 2.0-0ubuntu1

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musica (2.0-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  Add jPlayer (GPLv3) as an embedded javascript/flash mp3 player
  * debian/control, debian/install, debian/rules, index.php,
    jplayer.php, jplayer/js/Jplayer.as, jplayer/js/jquery.jplayer.min.js,
    jplayer/skin/jplayer.blue.monday.css: LP: #555347
  * debian/copyright: updated license info
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:02:47 -0600

awesome!