Show HN: Beatbar - Media player that beats in the browser address bar
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Show HN: Beatbar - Media player that beats in the browser address bar
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Re: Show HN: Beatbar - Media player that beats in the browser address bar
#2Very cool! I think you're limited by the font - strangely enough. But this is very nice. Creative.
Re: Show HN: Beatbar - Media player that beats in the browser address bar
#3every once in a while one bumps into something fairly useless(no disrespect) but insanely creative wow-&-smile-inducing piece of code here on HN. thanks for this. more power to you.
Re: Show HN: Beatbar - Media player that beats in the browser address bar
#4You could use unicode for the controls. I modified the local code to use "‖" (and, due to a bug I guess, the chrome address bar became monospaced). If you need, check some reference on http://copypastecharacter.com/all-characters and http://graphemica.com/
Re: Show HN: Beatbar - Media player that beats in the browser address bar
#5If this doesn't work for anyone else, note that beatbar relies on soundcloud, and thus flash. I had flash blocked so was getting a javacript error because beatbar was undefined, enabled flash and it worked.
Re: Show HN: Beatbar - Media player that beats in the browser address bar
#6You could use unicode for the controls. I modified the local code to use "‖" (and, due to a bug I guess, the chrome address bar became monospaced). If you need, check some reference on http://copypastecharacter.com/all-characters and http://graphemica.com/
I settled with the standard character sets as I wasn't sure if the fancy unicode character would be available cross platform or not. I'll look for this possibility again. Thanks.
Re: Show HN: Beatbar - Media player that beats in the browser address bar
#7If this doesn't work for anyone else, note that beatbar relies on soundcloud, and thus flash. I had flash blocked so was getting a javacript error because beatbar was undefined, enabled flash and it worked.
It uses soundManager for cross browser audio handling. It first tries with flash and fallbacks to html5 if flash is not available. Firefox with flash disabled wouldn't support mp3, and thus won't be able to play it. I am using SoundCloud api only to fetch streams.
Re: Show HN: Beatbar - Media player that beats in the browser address bar
#8If this doesn't work for anyone else, note that beatbar relies on soundcloud, and thus flash. I had flash blocked so was getting a javacript error because beatbar was undefined, enabled flash and it worked.
It uses soundManager for cross browser audio handling. It first tries with flash and fallbacks to html5 if flash is not available. Firefox with flash disabled wouldn't support mp3, and thus won't be able to play it. I am using SoundCloud api only to fetch streams.
Hmm, that's odd, I'm using Chrome 19.01 and have no other plugins running asides FlashBlock. Once I disabled flash block everything ran fine. Does this version of Chrome not support the HTML5 fallback?
Here's the Js error:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'init' of undefined /beatbar/:75 (anonymous function) /beatbar/:75 f.event.dispatch jquery.min.js:3 f.event.add.h.handle.i
Re: Show HN: Beatbar - Media player that beats in the browser address bar
#9Awesome stuff Jai! Way to go!
Re: Show HN: Beatbar - Media player that beats in the browser address bar
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It uses soundManager for cross browser audio handling. It first tries with flash and fallbacks to html5 if flash is not available. Firefox with flash disabled wouldn't support mp3, and thus won't be able to play it. I am using SoundCloud api only to fetch streams.
Hmm, that's odd, I'm using Chrome 19.01 and have no other plugins running asides FlashBlock. Once I disabled flash block everything ran fine. Does this version of Chrome not support the HTML5 fallback? Here's the Js error: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'init' of undefined /beatbar/:75 (anonymous function) /beatbar/:75 f.event.dispatch jquery.min.js:3 f.event.add.h.handle.i
I think soundManager requires some special handling for flashblock cases. I didn't test with flashblock on. Thanks for reporting the issue.