Music player within a website

[Raymond62]

I am building a website but have some problem adding a music player into the pages. It must be some sort of a jukebox player, with a playlist (the files must not be downloadable!!). Can anyone advice me which and how to this (I am no HTML nerd).

Raymond

[SeanHannifin]

On my website, I use an older version of the JW Flash Media Player (http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player). (The old version I use only plays MP3s, but it looks like its not available anymore. The newest version can now also play a bunch of other types of media.)

It has the installation instructions on the site... you basically upload the required flash files to your site and you use an XML file for the playlist. Then you embed the Flash file into an HTML document (it gives you the code to HTML code to use to embed it, but of course you might want to experiment with it and tweak it to fit your needs).

While it does not allow users to directly download your music, you would have to upload the MP3s somewhere on your server in the first place, and it's always possible that some clever user could find them. With many Flash jukeboxes, users don't actually stream the music anyway, they download the MP3s to their "temporary Internet files" and it plays through their browsers, through the Flash jukebox (so they're technically downloading your file, but only temporarily). True streaming is more work for the server (my server providers don't even allow it at all). Still, without direct links to your music files, most common users probably aren't going to figure out how to download them permanently.

There are probably some tricky ways to not allow anyone at all to access MP3s directly on your site, but such methods are beyond my skill.

Hope this helps. :)

[DarwinKopp]

Hi Raymond,

Here's a couple tools for creating embedded media players:

http://www.download.com/Stream-Master/3000-2068_4-10354277.html?tag=lst-7&cdlPid=10354278

http://www.download.com/CoffeeCup-Web-JukeBox/3000-2139_4-10498459.html?tag=lst-9&cdlPid=10503134

You may also tailor a search at download.com for more.

As to your concern to not "allow" download of your media files, tools like Audacity render your concern impossible to enforce. If a tune can be played, it can be captured to a file.

Regards,
Darwin

[indianamusic]

I chose to not have my music played through my web site to keep the bandwith use down. Instead, I send visitors to my website to a place called Broadjam - where I have my music stored - ready for listening. They cannot download (I know tricks can be done) - but I can set it up for a person to download with my permission and it works well.

They can also buy a track if they wish - though I have one album of mine already on iTunes and other digital download places.

Check on "listening at my web site to see how it works.
It costs $50 a year - no limit to bandwith usage.

http://www.momanmedia.com/


Charles

[Jaybee]

Raymond,

I use the Coffee Cup jukebox player. It is quite reasonable in price and very easy to configure. Right now I only have one song in my playlist but there are personal reasons for that. You can hear it here (http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/www.jayohbee67.com).

Coffee Cup has a lot of good tools and a good book to help you get started.

http://www.coffeecup.com/

[Raymond62]

Hi Jerry,

link is not working. Yesterday I found CoffeeCup. Looks promising.

Raymond

[Hajo]

Hello,

have a look at products from Myriad.

e.g. http://www.myriad-online.com/en/products/melodyplayer.htm

together with Harmony Assistant they play the notes like in the orchestration course. Highly recommended and costs little money. I use this tool also for transforming scores to musicxml, midi, etc.

Have a look at the demos:

http://www.myriad-online.com/cgi-bin/pagewrap.pl?lang=EN&page=*/demos/demos-folder.htm

And have fun

Hajo

[Jaybee]

Hi Jerry,

link is not working. Yesterday I found CoffeeCup. Looks promising.

Raymond

Raymond,

Sorry about that. Try this one (http://www.jayohbee67.com) and see if it works.

Jerry

[Raymond62]

Raymond,

Sorry about that. Try this one (http://www.jayohbee67.com) and see if it works.

Jerry

It worked. Nice piece of music, though. And do you have the score of Beethoven's Moonlight (Mondschein) sonata as the background?

Raymond

[Steve_Karl]

This one works well, does play lists ( xml ) has many nice skins ...
http://www.wimpyplayer.com/products/wimpy_mp3.html

Here's how it looks on my temp ( underdevelopment and not yet launched ) site.
http://www.sightsea.com/music/index_w3b.html

[Jaybee]

It worked. Nice piece of music, though. And do you have the score of Beethoven's Moonlight (Mondschein) sonata as the background?

Raymond

Sharp eye, there, old friend. :)

I've just been too lazy to continuing the development on the site. Maybe this winter. Too many irons in the fire right now.

[Raymond62]

To all of you,

today I made my choice. I implemented that CoffeeCup Jukebox. It comes with a lot of players (the look and feel) and it is easy enough to implement. This definitely-not-html-flash-nerd did it wrong in the first place, but with some experimenting it is now working.

Thank you all,

Raymond

[Jaybee]

Glad you got it working, Raymond. Don't forget to link us when you're ready to open the site for public viewing. )(~

[Raymond62]

Glad you got it working, Raymond. Don't forget to link us when you're ready to open the site for public viewing. )(~

By the end of the month I will publish the website and of course I have links to Garritan.

Raymond