Mefi Music Standalone Player Script

December 3, 2007 7:56 AM

In response to this thread: A little GreaseMonkey script to pop-out all the flash players (that use playlists) into new tabs/windows. Enjoy!
posted by potch to MetaFilter Music at 7:56 AM (11 comments total)

I know this doesn't address the bigger flash bug problem, but certainly helps with browsing the comments on songs without cutting the audio. It works on any page where there are the larger XML-based players.
posted by potch at 8:05 AM on December 3, 2007

Hey potch, a little help. I went to the page, clicked on the "install this script" button and the page turned into a page of "code". Then I tried using MeMu and nothing different happened. I'm sure I'm missing something. Could you help me a little bit with this?
posted by micayetoca at 8:11 AM on December 3, 2007

micayetoca: Do you have GreaseMonkey installed, and is it enabled?
posted by potch at 8:25 AM on December 3, 2007

Ooooooooh, I see, sorry potch, I'll get GreaseMonkey.
posted by micayetoca at 8:27 AM on December 3, 2007

That's pretty cool, potch. Thanks for sharing!
posted by mosessis at 10:17 AM on December 3, 2007

Nice potch, thanks!
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 11:06 AM on December 3, 2007

Very cool potch. Thanks
posted by special-k at 12:22 PM on December 3, 2007

Doesn't seem to really do anything for me. I'm unclear on what it's actually supposed to do.
posted by tehloki at 12:55 PM on December 3, 2007

tehloki: Look under the right side (under Stream the RSS feed). You'll see a little flash player which can be popped out.
posted by special-k at 4:17 PM on December 3, 2007 [1 favorite]

I'm looking for an excuse to build more functionality into this script.

Current ideas:
-Temporary, session based playlist built into a poppable player
-'Enqueue' option on each song post supporting the above player
-AJAXalicious adding to your playlists (to cut down on page loads, and thus, music interruptions)

Any little music ponies people just can't live without?
posted by potch at 10:07 AM on December 4, 2007

Oh boy, I would love it if it was easier to add songs to playlists. The feature feels kind of clunky right now I'd love to be able to quickly add a few songs to a playlist and then just listen through (for example, a quick playlist of all the new songs on the front page).

Also, is there a place to see and search everyone's playlists? Or does one have to go to a song page, hope it's playlisted, and then click on those playlists?

Thanks for doing all this, potch.
posted by mosessis at 7:30 PM on December 4, 2007