Fossil fuel

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its simple, but i like it. the music player is the coolest i think.

http://www.askthefool.com

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I love it ask! Has a nice layout, menu is just awesome, and the content is fun to read (I.E. your weblog). Do you still offer those foolish profiles?

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Its simple and neat ask, good job.

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Yeah, www.nobox.org

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Whats this website ask?

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A while ago, I used to have like my own profile that had guestbook and things. Friends of mine wanted it, cause they hated the ads on other services so I made mine public.

Its just a server for AIM profiles, and AIM Blogs. Check it out, there free.

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Pretty cool, good job!

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btw, i registered as h88. :slight_smile:

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Nice site ask.

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omg i dig your site so much! such a good job! you say its not Eye Candy but it is, this is like the perfect site! good job!

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how do u make a flash site like that when u click a button on your navi it comes on the same page how do u do that

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I used dynamic text boxes. Nothing fancy, just a php form that writes to txt files and that is loaded by the flash using the loadVariables() function.

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hey ask,

How did you stream the music without degrading quality?..
also, how did you do that progress bar (for caching) and current position?.. please teach… thanks…

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Ask, you should set the body color of your page to white cause it defualits to light blue on my computer. Other then that, it looks great. I also would like to know how you did your music progress bar, thats neat. =)

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electrongeek - I’ll look into it. It shouldn’t be doing that.

But, the music player:
Well currently there are 30 or so tracks on it. The way the player works is that it creates a random playlist, use pretty straight forward while loops


total_songs = 31;
songlist = new Array();
n = 1;
while (total_songs>=n) {
	ok = true;
	rnumber = random(total_songs)+1;
	for (r=1; total_songs>=r; r++) {
		if (rnumber == songlist[r]) {
			ok = false;
		}
	}
	if (ok) {
		songlist[n] = rnumber;
		n++;
	}
}

Creating the swf’s by hand would have been a *****, so I created a CPP app that generated the swfs from everything in a folder. Its actaully simpler creating that then it sounds. Around 600 lines of code. But you don’t need to do that, I just did that for conviences sake.

The progress bar is nothing complicated either:


_root.playing._xscale = (100/_parent.target._totalframes)*_parent.target._currentframe;
_root.loaded._xscale = (100/_parent.target._totalframes)*_parent.target._framesloaded;

And then for the fast forward and rewind, by clicking. (Its a movie clip)


onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
	if (hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse)) {
		a = (_root.target._totalframes/180 );
		_root.target.gotoAndPlay(int(a*(_xmouse)));
	}
}

It may seems a bit confusing, message me on AIM at Ask2k3 if you have an questions

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Thanks Ask, I’ll definitely use experiment with this and thanks for the generous codes. Some people would keep it to themselves. =)

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Maybe I should try for SOTW. I think I will

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Ashutosh-

I love your music player! Two questions:

  1. How did you get the music to play almost right away with no wait while loading? " I have streamed in Flash before and I still don’t get this to happen.

2.How did you get such excellent sound out of your .swf while streaming it?

I created a player for my friend to help him get his demo music out at:
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I really want to do what you did here.

Thanks in advance for your help, you are an inspiration!

Rob

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Excellent job.
No words.

p.s. Sound is a littlebit to heavy for 56k, but that isn’t so big problem. Did you try to use some soundloops (30-90 Kb)?

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The whole point of the music play, was not to have to use sound loops. There are about 37-38 tracks on the system.

I stream the music at 128-192 kbs, depending on whatever bit rate I ripped the CD at, thus the nice sound quality.