Is it conceivable to have the playback on a song open in a separate player so that the song will continue to play even if I were to click to a different page. For example, if I go to the page of a song and play it, but then want to read the reviews or leave a review, the song would continue to play instead of being closed when I left that page.

Have you tried opening a new browser window or tab? I usually have one tab playing while I browse on another.

Right click on any link > open new tab.

Lo-tech, but it works for me. :)

It’s not my case because I prefer to use streaming rather than online playing, but (coincidentally) I’ve also been noticed of this “issue” by other people.

I know it’s a *lot* of work to make it work fine, though, so I’m not requesting the feature but seems like a valuable thing for occasional (and possibly non-techie) ccMixter visitors.

My opinion is to do what google does (google?). One link that opens the result in the same window, and another link, right next to it, that opens the same result in a separate window.

An external-window player could have a few more bells and whistles, given it has an entire screen. However, I’d probably stick with the in-window player, and open new tabs myself. Do it all the time.