[thelist] web Jukebox

[Chris Johnston]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:08:11 -0600, Stephen Rider
<evolt_org at striderweb.com> wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> Does anyone have info on good ways to do a web jukebox?
> 
> I could have sworn that someone had brought this up recently, but I
> couldn't find it in the archives....
> 
> A client wants a jukebox where users can select one of several songs
> and play it.  It should be graphically flexible (e.g. I can make it
> look like any number of things...)
> 
> The sound files are about three minutes long.  Advice on compression
> would be good too.  I'll probably in some form be using Quicktime Pro
> to process the files.
> 

One word for this kind of thing: Flash

There are several off the shelf jukebox apps written in flash already
in existance that you can either download or purchase. Most of these
use mp3 as the file format.

-- 
chris johnston

www.fuzzylizard.com

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