How does the Song Of The Week feature work?

December 04, 2003 | Comments Closed

Summary: How did you develop the Song of the Week Flash Bar? I find it similar to the TMBG Radio.

Well, it’s a bit complicated and it was quite awhile ago that I worked with it, so I can’t give you all the dirty details.

Put simply, The Song Of The Week player is a Flash-based application that takes mp3s that live on the server and streams them via the Flash player. It uses an XML file to pull the text in for the name of the song and the artist and ties that to the corresponding mp3.

What I do is edit the XML file so that it shows the song title and artist name and points that to the correct mp3 file. Then I upload that updated XML file and the new mp3 to my server and the player is then updated with a new song.

I never have to edit the Flash file as it’s set up to simply pull in the data it needs from the XML file. Nice and easy.

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