• Steam recently changed the default privacy settings for all users. This may impact tracking. Ensure your profile has the correct settings by following the guide on our forums.

LocalPlayer, stream your music library over the web

Status
Not open for further replies.
A_Nub said:
Ohh btw, Chat I think its your code because I can run 2D physics in safari fine at 30fps with 40+ bodies. Which is a lot more taxing than simple image rendering.
Click to expand...

His last big update says he used "open source code" for that, if I'm reading correctly. And it works fine for me in Safari.

A_Nub said:
An alt attribute is 30 lines of code?
Click to expand...

And how is an alt attribute going to determine if the file exists? It's gonna call on code which doesn't exist. ;)
 
Yeah it works great in Safari, it just works better in Chrome :P You guys haven't seen it with 50 albums yet, you can see the slow down there.
I'm looking for a way to increase speed by only tracking 12 or so covers at once, instead of them all all the time. Should give good speed increases.

I do use an image cache atm for some of the on the fly resizing it does since it resizes the coverflow album covers to 200 (I don't let the browser do it since they turn out really grainy and the coverflow runs shit) but I still won't do the reflection in PHP :p
 
A_Nub said:
Thats my man, however I would do one difference to make it IE compatible, I would make the reflections using the php image lib, then just simple JS and z-index ;). However the canvas tag is quite fun, I made some demos using it not too long ago. Any who, canvas works on the iPhone, so no complaints here ;).
Click to expand...

I doubt the reflection is very expensive on CPU to render. Sure it'd improve performance a bit by using PHP with an image cache but that makes the script less portable.
 
Getting close to version 1, recoding the bulk of the JS to not rely so heavily on jQuery, a little teaser screenshot to keep interest up D:

shiny.jpg
 
Yeah background is really easily changable. Scrobbling was done a long time ago, I just need to buy a website and get version 1 out before I can include it in a release (lastfm terms :(). The same goes for tweeting your plays, I need to have a release out first.
 
It's looking much better than I ever expected it to look like and might consider using it once it is released :p I need to build up my library first
 
that last screenshot looks bloody amazing, great work man.
May have use for this after setting up a home server perhaps :D
 
You should just make this into an actual audio player, non of this remote bullshit.

Theres no audio players out there that are as good as this
 
I don't think it'll ever be a desktop player. The main idea of this wasn't to be a good music player but to be able to sit down and listen to your music anywhere (almost anywhere until the basic version is included, this version needs an up to date browser). By doing it on the web I get the benifit of a nice layout rendering engine and cross platform support.
Besides like I said before, you can use Google Chrome/Prism for FF to make any web app into a peudo-desktop app, I've tried it with LocalPlayer and it works great.

And yeah at this point it's only loosely based on foobar, more inspired by foobar :p

Hate bumping this thread for so long without a release, I really want to get one within a month so not too long left (even bought the domain today).
 
Chathurga said:
I don't think it'll ever be a desktop player. The main idea of this wasn't to be a good music player but to be able to sit down and listen to your music anywhere (almost anywhere until the basic version is included, this version needs an up to date browser). By doing it on the web I get the benifit of a nice layout rendering engine and cross platform support.
Besides like I said before, you can use Google Chrome/Prism for FF to make any web app into a peudo-desktop app, I've tried it with LocalPlayer and it works great.

And yeah at this point it's only loosely based on foobar, more inspired by foobar :p

Hate bumping this thread for so long without a release, I really want to get one within a month so not too long left (even bought the domain today).
Click to expand...

but yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

No, I get it dude. Its just too amazing to see it not be something more universal. Like, what if the internet crashes... forever? You know, that old story...

BTW, your AppServ link is broked on the first post

Also, ffs, fix the damn American Bug. It still doesnt want to work properly even on my rig
 
Instead of bumping this thread with little updates I decided to use my twitter account, it'd be easier if anyone who's interested followed me on twitter.
Only one post so far, the basically final Default UI for version 1 ;D

http://twitter.com/Chathurga
 
Heres what ive run in to while attempting to play any song

When I pres play, this appears under the last.fm box

lp1.png


when trying to press play again, this appears in the same spot only with a broken image

lp2.png


iono

Also, a suggestion? I dont even know if this is possible considering the language used but. When highlighting a song to play, youd have to move over to the play button in order to play the song right? Well, since you cant double click or use the context menu, what about a play button appearing, or even a play button always next to a title for a quick playing option. I know, this is kind of a lazy thing to suggest but... you know how people are, thought itd be nice to have. Although considering it isnt exactly a audio player in true essence, just thought id mention it
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top