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.

webdesignby

This plugin makes it simple to add custom music playlists including:
<ul>
<li>Preview from iTunes</li>
<li>Artwork</li>
<li>Artist Name</li>
<li>Song Title</li>
<li>Album or Collection</li>
<li>Links to iTunes</li>
</ul>
Unlimited Musicboxes and tracks. Drag and drop re-ordering of tracks and Musicboxes. You can set the widget to play automatically or require the user to press play first. The widget will play through all of the tracks.
PHP 5 >= PHP 5.3.0 or Required
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<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>Click the new Musicbox menu item in wp-admin</li>
<li>Create a new musicbox</li>
<li>Add tracks to the musicbox</li>
<li>Repeat as necessary</li>
<li>Add music box to pages using the Musicbox widget</li>
<li>Add music box to pages using the Musicbox shortcode </li>
</ol>
Shortcode ex. 
[musicbox musicbox_id=”1″ description=”1″ autoplay=”1″ tracks_perpage=”2″]

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Add custom playlist widgets to your website including preview clips from iTunes.

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