In case you blinked, ccMixter has finally caught up with every other media site and now has an embedded MP3 player and playlists.

Embedded MP3 Player

Next to most uploads you now see a little Speaker button with (sometimes with a Play next to it). If you have Flash (tm) 8 or higher installed as a plug in with your browser the track will play “in your browser.” If you don’t have the right version of Flash (tm) then the file stream with whatever you’ve got setup as your default MP3/M3U player (usually QuickTime, iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc.)

Note: to get the full benefit of this feature you can download the latest version of Flash (tm) from here.

Because the song is playing in your browser, if you navigate to another page the song will stop playing. This is the way it’s supposed to work.

Special shout out to dj peregrine who wrote the Flash (tm) player for us — just don’t blame him for the user interface, that was all done on top of he gave us.

SPECIAL NOTE: Flash (tm)’s MP3 player only knows how to play sample rates divisible by 11 so all the tracks encoded at 48k (e.g. most of fourstones) will not play and so there will be no speaker button. If you have a 48k upload you should use ‘Manage Files’ to upload a 44k version of the MP3 and our system will find that one and play it on request.

Playlists

The big new feature on the site is playlists. There are two types of playists “dynamic” and the “other kind.”

For both kinds of playlists you can open them in a separate window (if you have Flash (tm) 8 or above) and start playing so you can continue to browse the site (or the web) and the playlist will continue to play.

HINT: If a song is playing in the background that you suddenly fall in love with it, click on the name of the song and the song’s page will open in your main browser window while continuing to play. You can then review/rate song right there.

Dynamic

Any one (even folks not registered at the site) can create dynamic playlists. In that form you can specify upload types, users (based on a lookup in our database), tags (again, looked up automatically), license, score, etc. and a playist is dynamically created and presented to you.

Registered users can then save that playlist which will become part of your profile. You can rename it, tag it, adjust the dynamic criteria and share it with others.

The contents of your Dynamic playlist will change depending on new uploads to the site. So for example, if you have a playist that is based on the ‘hip_hop’ tag, when some one uploads a new track with that tag, the new song will pop to the top of your playlist.

Other Kind

Registered users will see a ‘Add to playlist’ button on every upload on the site and a ‘Add to…’ button on every song on song in every playlist. Using these buttons you can add/remove tracks to and from your personal playlists.

The contents of this kind of playlist will only change when you edit it (like WebJay (tm) and more traditional playlists).

Future

These features are coming in the future so don’t bother asking for them (although cheerleading is always encouraged):

- Play counts - we are keeping close tabs on every play of every song from every playlist. At some point we will start tabulating these and including these numbers into the ‘favorites’ calculations.

- Search by tag - make sure to tag your playlist because at some point we’ll have a way to browse playlists by tags

- Stream too - we will add a ‘stream’ link next to the ‘Play in Window’ so you can (if you choose) play the playlist in your favorite media player.

- Picks Page - at some point we will update the ‘Picks’ page with play buttons and playlists.

- Sample brower - at some point we will update the sample browser with play buttons

- Remix Radio - at some point Remix Radio will generate dynamic playlists too.

Hope that covers it, if you have any questions (or you know, find bugs) let us know.

Peace,
VS

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I can’t seem to ever get the playlist page loaded up. I’ve downloaded and installed the latest version of Flash for both Firefox and IE6. But still doesn’t load. Do I need IE7?

Thanks!

EDIT: Nevermind, now I got it. I had to add one song first, now I can see the playlists and default one. :P

EDIT #2: Could we also see about getting a feature where we leave like a little review or something about the song, why we chose it to add to our playlist?

Quote: EDIT #2: Could we also see about getting a feature where we leave like a little review or something about the song, why we chose it to add to our playlist?

yup, or I could correllate it with your actual review of the track (?). For now you can heap it into the playlists ‘description’ field.

Right now I busy chasing down bugs in the new code, like why I didn’t get notified you had replied ;)

VS

Wow, what a nice surprise! I only played a little bit with it now, but this is a great addition to the site! Two thumbs up!

BTW: is there any chance that the Flash version requirement could be lowered to V7? I’d love to surf ccMixter on my Wii, but it only supports Flash 7. :-(

For some reason Ophelia’s Song (DNA Remix) won’t play in my playlist. It just skips it right to the next one. Any ideas to fix it? I’ve tried removing it, and adding it again, but same results…

would be kind of cool to be able to add comments to individual playlists. not sure if thats an option, but it would be cool.