vince.cimo

Speak Sound Library allows tight management and presentation of a music library. Users can import mp3’s into the system with an individual uploader or by recursively scanning a folder uploaded via ftp. Once scanned, the ID3 information is extracted out of the mp3 files and used to create a SQL entry. The resulting ‘posts’ are then organized and filterable by artist, genre, album, etc. Users can also attach additional meta-data, such as a youtube link to each song. This song data can be presented on the front-end using our plugin’s short code methods, which returns PHP objects, or using an ajax hook, which returns formatted JSON data. An example implementation (still beta), can be seen at http://www.speakstudioscoop.com/music.
<h3>Wiring up a Frontend Player</h3>
This plugin is merely a backend management system and can be extended using any type of front-end player. You can either use PHP hooks to prepare html, or use a jQuery ajax method, which returns sound data formatted in JSON.
This method will return a JSON string of all of the sounds in your library:
var data = { 
 action: ‘get_songs’ 
 };
<pre><code> jQuery.post(ajaxurl, data, function (response) { console.log(response);
 });
</code></pre>
You can also filter by genre, album or artist (mutually exclusive), like this:
var data = { 
 action: ‘get_songs’, 
 albumFilter: ‘Dark Side of the Moon’, 
 artistFilter: ‘Pink Floyd’, 
 genreFilter: ‘Rock’ 
 };
<pre><code> jQuery.post(ajaxurl, data, function (response) { console.log(response);
 });
</code></pre>
Using PHP, you can retrieve sounds the same as you would any other post, just add ‘post_type’ => ‘sounds’ to your get_posts() query.
Enjoy 🙂

Speak Sound Library

Plugin for managing a library of sounds with simple frontend hooks.

gilthonwe

This plugin allows you to use the shortcode <code>ios_app_review</code> to embed iOS app reviews and ratings directly into your blog.
What does it do? 
The first time a page with the shortcode is loaded, the plugin will try to download the reviews from Apple’s servers. Then it will store them in a file and nicely display them on your page. 
Every time someone opens the page, instead of downloading the reviews again, the plugin will read them from the cache file. If the cache file is too old, the plugin will try to download new reviews from Apple’s servers.
Check out some examples of what it produces here: http://www.gilthonwe.com (My iOS Apps section)

AppStore Reviews Viewer

Adds a shortcode that displays reviews and ratings of an app from the iOS AppStore’s country you chose.

Speak Sound Library vs AppStore Reviews Viewer