News
[2011.12.28] JPlayer Playlister 0.5
v0.5 adds the long overdue option to easily enable/disable autoplay or override default via a URL argument. Additionally, the sorting options have been improved and a bug where the one-click filter loses sorting preference has been addressed. An option/argument was also added to allow non-essential information to be easily hidden. Lastly, JPlayer 2.1 was used for this release; it also works as a drop-in solution for Playlister 0.4.
[2011.10.13] JPlayer Playlister 0.4
This release has been in development for over 6 months, but is finally here. Based on JPlayer 2.0, it adds a fairly advanced filtering system and addresses many bugs.
[2011.03.07] JPlayer Playlister 0.3
v0.3 uses recursion to dig indefinitely into your file structure after you point it at a target directory.
This is an improvement over 0.2 in that it only allowed you to delve one subfolder deep. v0.3 also fixes a few bugs, offers a few more (friendly-looking)
links, and allows the playlist to be sorted by mtime (file modified), name (by folder), or randomized.
[2010.11.03] JPlayer Playlister 0.2
This incremental release is very similar to 0.1, but has the added functionality of playing songs from a specified folder and immediate subfolders.
[2010.09.24] JPlayer Playlister 0.1
The first release is just made a minimized version of this page and the necessary code to implement your own JPlayer Playlist Generator. The original source can be downloaded here. [Ed while this is still available, it is recommended that you use the current version available below]
What Does it Mean?
This is a playlist celebrating a MP3 CD my brother made for me while I was in Kuwait.
I still have the CD in my car -- sunvisor CD case -- and break it out occasionally.
I jumped in my car the other day after my wife had used it for one reason or another
and was happy to find that she had popped the CD in, and had been pumping a Tribe tune.
A reminiscent facebook post later, a few people indicated that they wanted in on the jam session. I hadn't implemented
an HTML5 audio player yet, so thought this was a perfect opportunity. Once I got going, I realized that I wanted the playlist
to be automatically generated. I did a quick search and found nothing for JPlayer; so I made one. I might
try to clean up the code a little and make this the implementation demo for a code snippit which may save someone else some time
You can download individual songs by right-clicking 'mp3' and choosing 'save target as' or something like that.
If you want the whole CD, you can download that
here (700mb). Or you can stay on this page and listen for as long as you'd like.
_Props_
I implemented this player...but couldn't have done it without lots of help:
Christian Chapman » Brother, and assembler of tunes. We gain from your diverse catalog.
JPlayer » Awesome HTML5 (flash fallback) Audio/Video player with playlist capability which I used to...play these files.
getID3 » PHP Class allowing the easy access to ID3 information for various audio files.
_Final Thoughts_
Certainly, downloading copywritten content you don't own is illegal. So, officially, don't download any of this stuff unless you own it
and are simply making digital backups of your legally purchased content. While you may not be allowed to do this,
making such an action illegal is ridiculous and what else should we do but break ridiculous laws that infringe on common sense and
our ability to protect what we have purchased.
If you insist on downloading, be sure to support the artists if you like them by seeing a show or telling friends about them or something.
Consider listening to these artists akin to advertisments...erm, without the unlrelated product endorsements. It must be late. I really just went into legal
stuff.
-nc