Can I use AJAX to keep a musicplayer on a site?

[recordlovelife]

Hello all, thanks in advance -

I want to put a music player on a site, I will make it in flash.
The site is in a LAMP environment. I want to have the music player in the main navigation section. My issue, I do not want to have the music player be reloaded everytime you click a new link. And I don't want to use frames in the site, and i don't want to use flash anything other than the actual music player (no flash made website)

I was thinking i could use AJAX to load the new content on everypage and leave the header (navigation and music player) alone. I this a good use of AJAX? Can someone explain how about I would go about doing this? Is there a simpler way s/o can share with me.

Thanks for all the advice
Frank

[Ferris]

hi

if you know the playlist and you just want to play songs one by one, you needn't use AJAX. You can simply save songs' address in an array, when the media player's status changed(from 'play' to 'stop'), it will fire an event, then you can reload the new address into media player using javascript.


if you don't know the play list,you need to use AJAX to get new song's address, and then, reload the new address into player using js.

but the player in different browser has different code to write. which player do you use? Windows Media Player?

hope it helps.

[recordlovelife]

hi

if you know the playlist and you just want to play songs one by one, you needn't use AJAX. You can simply save songs' address in an array, when the media player's status changed(from 'play' to 'stop'), it will fire an event, then you can reload the new address into media player using javascript.


if you don't know the play list,you need to use AJAX to get new song's address, and then, reload the new address into player using js.

but the player in different browser has different code to write. which player do you use? Windows Media Player?

hope it helps.

My problem isn't making a music player. It how to keep my music player playing when someone clicks a new link on the page. This is cause the player to reload (interupting the player).

[acoder]

In that case, yes, you can use AJAX to keep the music player running.

See this example.

[Ferris]

My problem isn't making a music player. It how to keep my music player playing when someone clicks a new link on the page. This is cause the player to reload (interupting the player).

Hi

I'm sorry to make you puzzle. I knew your problem is not making a music player. What I told you before was 2 different ways to solve your problem in 2 different situations.

situation 1: you know the play list.

you needn't use ajax.you can just use array to store your list and use javascript to control your player.

situation 2: you don't know the play list.

you need use ajax.see the example given by acoder.


hope it helps.