[Playlist] XSPF Player dynamic playlist question

[Lucas Gonze]

On 7/6/07, Ross Mohn <rpmohn at waxandwane.org> wrote:
> 1) Has anyone already solved this problem?

Use Peter Forret's Webjay Wizard to generate the URI, which was
designed exactly for handling multiple layers of URI nesting.  Despite
the name it doesn't have to have Webjay involved.

See http://web.forret.com/tools/webjay.asp

-Lucas


> Hi, I'm playing around with putting a version of the XSPF Player
> (http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/) on my Digital Archive Streamer
> website (http://waxandwane.org/das/). My problem is that my playlists
> are generated dynamically, such as:
> http://waxandwane.org/das/stream.xspf?playlist=Berea&filter=waterfall
>
> Now, when I put that as the playlist_url= parameter it doesn't work
> because the '&' character is stolen by xspf_player.swf. So, I try to put
> quotation marks around it with playlist_url='' but xspf_player.swf trys
> to include the quotation marks as part of the actual url and fails,
> falling back to the default playlist. (I've tried many other
> permutations, but nothing has worked.)
>
> My 2 questions are:
>
> 2) The Actionscript code looks pretty straightforward, but would someone
> please give me a brief head start on how to compile the .as files? I
> quickly tried using mtasc (on GNU/Linux), but it immediatly gave an
> error on 'line 13 stop()'. Also, what's the difference between the .swf
> file and the .fla file?
>
> Thanks! -Ross
>
>
>
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