Sorry for the cryptic title line…

Here's the story: I use a Slimbox for my main player, but I also have a
server in my office so that I can access my music from anywhere with a
Net connection. I've had occasional probs with both Softsqueeze and mp3
players (ie, iTunes) hiccuping and not working flawlessly in
coordination with the browser controls.

Today while doing some Web authoring, I noticed some code—evidently
it's pretty common—that uses Flash to embed an mp3 player in a Web
page. I experimented by generating a Web page with that code, then
using it to control my music. Voilà! It worked well, tho' Firefox was
working pretty hard.

I'm not a sophisticated coder, but I can't imagine that'd be too hard
for someone to build a skin with that sort of code so that a user could
essentially turn a player daemon off and on via the browser interface to
the server. WTH?—perhaps a bit of javascript could sense whether "Play"
is bolded and control the Flash embed automatically. I tried to do the
more simple approach by squirting a snippet into the Handheld
status.html page, but no luck.

What do you more-expert-than-I ppl think? I realize that the
cognoscienti of the Web spurn Flash, but this might be a [rare] useful
deployment of it—provided Flash acts merely as a wrapper and doesn't
degrade audio quality, of course.

Your thoughts?


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