10 Easy To Implement Flash Based Mp3 Players For Your Website

Dicky — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:10:27 +0000

Flash Mp3 players are cool because they let web developers and bloggers embed music players and build customized JukeBox on the websites.

With these online music players, you can add a list of songs easily and embed the given Javascript code to your website. Most of these music players are customizable and you can have your won skin that suit the web design.

Today, we are going to look into 10 flash Mp3 players that you can easily implement to your website.

1. Audio Player

Audio Player is an open source flash mp3 player which is released under the Open Source MIT License. This is originally a plugin for Wordpress but the developer had built a standalone version which can be used by any website as well. Wordpress user will get a lot of customization options.

2. Flabell Flash Mp3 Player

This is a fully customizable music player for your website. The playlists are being loaded externally using XML file and you can add multiple artists and albums to your playlists.

3. Flabell Simple Flash Mp3 Player

This is a minimalistic Mp3 player for your website. Simple Flash Mp3 Player is another free product from Flabell. This simple music player has a play/stop button, draggable volume bar and a sound visualizer.

4. Yahoo! Media Player

Yahoo! Media Player creates an embedded player for each audio link. Simply add the Javascript code given and it will automatically looks for audio files and add a play button beside the link.

5. Mp3 Player

It is an audio player for Mp3 files which is intended for the diffusion on websites. Mp3 Player is open source, free and easily customizable. It comes with 5 different types and allows users to choose the song from a playlist.

6. Free Flash Mp3 Player

Flash MP3 Player is a free application that allows you to play music on your website easy and fast. You won’t need any programming skills to install or use it. Just embed it into your website and player will automatically scan a specified folder and form a playlist.

7. NiftyPlayer

NiftyPlayer is a small and simple Flash Mp3 Player. If the users enable Javascript, they can even control the player without touching the Flash interface!

8. Dewplayer

Dewplayer is very light and easy to use. It downloads and plays the mp3 file when the play button is pressed. It has 3 different modes: Mini, Classic and Multi. The Multi version allows users to play previous and next songs via the buttons.

9. Free MP3 Music Player for Website

This Flash Mp3 Player contains 6 different versions, which includes single track, multiple tracks, with/without menu, mini version and single flash player with loop. Songs are saved into a XML format playlist.

10. AudioPlay

AudioPlay is a one button Freeware MP3 player based on Flash technology. Users can customize play/stop button images, background color, loop settings and autostart options.

5 Extremely Simple Ways To Add Page Curl To Your Website

Dicky — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:44:23 +0000

A lot of websites/blogs using page peel/page curl to add additional message such as advertisements at the corner. There are a lot of scripts that can achieve this function but unfortunately these scripts are not free.

Recently, 1 of my client requests me to implement page curl on his Wordpress theme. So, I search through the internet and found some free and extremely simple ways to implement it.

1) Simple Page Peel Effect with jQuery and CSS by Soh Tanaka

In this example, Soh Tanaka show us how to achieve the page peel effect using purely jQuery and CSS.

2) The Sexy Curls jQuery Plugin

This is another open source jQuery plugin to achieve page peel/page curl effect by Elliott Kember. To use this plugin, you are required to install both jQuery and jQuery UI.

3) jQuery Page Peel 1.2 by Smpl Multimedia

The jQuery Page Peel by Smpl Multimedia is a minimalist jQuery plugin that achieve page peel effect. Also, there are a lot of options for you.

4) How to create a page peel advertisement in Wordpress

You had seen so many free jQuery scripts to create page peel effect, but what happen if you want to integrate it with your blog? You may follow the tutorial from PCandWeb if you are using Wordpress.

5) Wordpress Page Peel plugin

If you are using Wordpress and want a cool Web 2.0 style flash page peel effect, then you should consider Page Peel plugin for Wordpress by Avramovic. It comes with a admin configuration panel.

Conclusion

The first 3 methods using jQuery while the last 2 methods use flash to achieve page peel effect. Using Flash to achieve page peel will have better animation, while using jQuery will have smaller file size and load time.

So, it is depended on yourself to choose which method to use.

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