Comments on One Man Clapping: Hacking the Yahoo! Media Player

As a public service I hacked up a function that al...

2011-11-15T10:29:10.782-07:00

As a public service I hacked up a function that allows you to programatically play tracks by title. This is useful when trying to make images play, which the player doesn't seem to support.

img src="...jpg" style="cursor:pointer" onClick="play('Song Title')">

function play(id){
for(var i=0;i<10;i++){ // Rewind to beginning of playlist. I use a for counter just to avoid a possible infinite loop.
// If you have more than 10 tracks on page then increase this
YAHOO.MediaPlayer.previous();
var media=YAHOO.MediaPlayer.getMetaData();
if(media.title=="First Song Title") break; // Not totally necessary but if you know the title of the first song then this is clean
}
for(var i=0;i<10;i++){ // This advances the player until the track title matches the title you passed in. Then it plays the song.

var media=YAHOO.MediaPlayer.getMetaData();
if(media.title==id){
YAHOO.MediaPlayer.play();
break;
}
YAHOO.MediaPlayer.controller.EventManager.onNextRequest.fire();
}
}

These are valuable hacks. If you posted a note to...

2009-04-14T09:36:00.001-06:00

These are valuable hacks. If you posted a note to the mailing list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yhoomediaplayer it would help other people to reuse your experience.

About skinnability, the intent from the beginning was to empower developers to use CSS rather than Flash. Also you can replace the standard image sprite master with your own.

These are valuable hacks. If you posted a note to...

2009-04-14T09:36:00.000-06:00