Flash MP3 player how?
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- georgietexan
Ok so I know how to make the player for this site but how was the dropdown created? XML? CSS? and how does it pull the mp3 into the player? seen the done on alot of kurtnoble sites too. put can't figure out how to create the dropdown menu with player. any help would be great.
- unfittoprint0
XML.
each xml item has atributes regarding mp3 location, name, artist. after loaded into flash the XML object is parsed, and the info is made into an array of variables that can be retrieved by the player.
- georgietexan0
So how does the fade in fade out work? As you click on the dropdown it fades in then as you leave it fades out. CSS? or is it a button made in flash. Thanks for the feed back .
- nuggler0
yeah that's all Flash. Right click, or control click if you're not sure - and you'll see the flash menu.
- unfittoprint0
first things first.
You populate the menu info, path, description with the XML content.
Second.
Any fancy, eye candy transition is either a tween or an alpha loop function within the movie button. A function checks the number [length] of items in the XML object and then uses, for example, a For In loop together with the attachmovie function to construct the menu.
- georgietexan0
I have looked on the web for some how to stuff on how to create this style of mp3/xml player. would any of you have a link to something? I guess the menu is what confuse me the most I have made mp3 players like this one before never with an xml menu though. please post links if you know of any.
- georgietexan0
yeah did that google stuff not finding any that are very good and cover all the issues XML/dropdown menus/mp3s
that jukebox on flashzone I gave up on couldn't get it to work.
- ********0
Flashkit.com etc, etc.
- georgietexan0
yeah I hit flashkit up a few weeks ago I guess I'll look agian but I rember tring a few of those but none gave me really what I wanted the XML menu dropdown added to the jukebox. I have the jukebox works fine it's just you have to hit next, next , next, etc.. to get to the song you want a bit lame but the one I have works.
- prince0
who can give me .fla? thanks.
if u can, pls send it to:
- unknown0
create a fancy drop down animation, at the end of the animation add the XML action. If the XML part isnt your problem then your set. Creating the drop down is relatively easy. Flashkit has lots of examples of such.
- georgietexan0
yeah thats it I see thanks for all the help..
- jverbal0
unfittoprint nailed it pretty much right on the head, it reads an xml file and with the song title and link to the sound file
the fade in and out, is ammatter of remving and showing some movieclips from the stage and a little tweening for laughs
and yeah i made it :)
- jverbal
- unfittoprint0
;-)
- georgietexan0
thanks looks very nice.. great work.
- autonoma0
Here's another MP3 player.