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My XSPF
According to what I've read here on TribeNet, the SXPF module works perfectly...
yet when I define a functional URL to a playlist, it does not function. To my surprise, once I leave the URL field blank....i.e. I enter no URL at all, a playlist for "HIDEOUT" appears and functions quite properly. There must be reasoning behind this. Perhaps a fear-of-copyright-allogations reasoning.
HIDEOUT is nothing new to me and I appreciate the 470+ title queue ...but I really really would like to have my preferred songs on my personal plurn playlist appear AND FUNCTION.
Who can explain or elaborate ?
According to what I've read here on TribeNet, the SXPF module works perfectly...
yet when I define a functional URL to a playlist, it does not function. To my surprise, once I leave the URL field blank....i.e. I enter no URL at all, a playlist for "HIDEOUT" appears and functions quite properly. There must be reasoning behind this. Perhaps a fear-of-copyright-allogations reasoning.
HIDEOUT is nothing new to me and I appreciate the 470+ title queue ...but I really really would like to have my preferred songs on my personal plurn playlist appear AND FUNCTION.
Who can explain or elaborate ?
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Re: XSPF
Sun, July 15, 2007 - 7:51 PMIs it 'XSPF' or 'SXPF' you are trying to define? Seriously, I don't know the answer to this question but that does seem like a common typo to be aware of... -
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Re: XSPF
Mon, July 16, 2007 - 12:57 AM"My XSPF
Share your music via an xspf playlist."
I got it right 2 times outa 3. Have you ever heard of an SXPF playlist module on Tribe Net ?
I haven't. If you can answer my initial question, please do. I'll learn to correct typos all on my own, thanks. -
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Re: XSPF
Mon, July 16, 2007 - 7:45 AMIs this to play music on your profile or something ... or a live feed ? -
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Re: XSPF
Mon, July 16, 2007 - 8:05 AMclick on my profile to see what an XSPF player looks like.
I have two self-made playlists WHICH WON'T WORK on tribe-net (which is the reason for this topic btw).....they can be seen, linked to or whatever at
The URL for this playlist is:
www.plurn.com/play/45529
Play this through Yahoo Music Engine:
xml.plurn.com/xml/45529.xspf
Play this through a Media Player (wm):
plurn.com/m3u/45529
well, just that one for example.
My guess is that tribe-net has the XSPF moudle set to load a default playlist which contains COPYLEFT songs only.
more on XSPF at www.xspf.org/xspf-v0.html -
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Re: XSPF
Wed, July 18, 2007 - 1:37 AMOkay, I searched for a clue or an answer to my quesion and this is what I found ;
Tribe Net's XSPF module was not working....oh, over a year ago. That was fixed rather quickly.
As users reported the XSPF module would not play their playlists, mmbers of Support passed the info along until one fellow discovered the issue is falsh related and Tribe Net has no influence over it. A reference or file name has to be in the root folder where the actual songs are stored in order for the Tribe Net module to be able to load the playlist. A flash thingy. Not Tribe Net's fault or issue.
As this remedy was communicated to XSPF happy users, the issues were rapidly reported and "resolved".
All is well in Bohica Land ? Not.
As I clicked on said users to check out how and if their XSPF playlists are rely functioning, I see the exact same issue I am having with mine.......
"Loading Playlist......" and this doesn't change. THE PLAYLIST IS NOT LOADING. That is, in a nutshell, the issue at hand. Now, given that these other knowledgeable users have installed said reference or file in the playlist hoting directory or folder, why, all of a sudden....did their XSPF Modules cease to function ? I continued searching Tribe Net for clues and an answer to this new questions ...only to find that these XSPF experieinced users who had once upon a time given the "A-Okay, all is well" greenlite to support.....had issued new trouble tickets.....with the very same issue.....THE PLAYLIST IS NOT LOADING "anymore".
That was in April, 2007. The last one I looked at didn't receive a response from Support. So, either this is where we now stand on the issue of non-functionable XSPF Modules on Tribe Net ......
or
the truth is out there somewhere !
A any rate, with the current stup, if you add the XSPF Module and you DO NOT define an XSPF Playlist URL, a default XSPF Playlist will load and function. This default list has in excess of 400 songs !
The default Playlist is a functioning workaround and I salute Tribe Net Support fellows for providing this......yet,
we would really like to have our own Playlists loading and playing.
Support ?
Is there anybody out there ?
Arf arf arf !!! -
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Re: XSPF
Thu, July 19, 2007 - 10:53 PMI'm sorry Curt, this functionality was never fully developed and tested, and as you can see, it's not working all that great. I know that Chris has made some posts to this tribe about what does/doesn't work, but other than that I'm not sure we can fix it. Again, I'm sorry that it's a source of confusion. We'd pull it out, but there are some brave souls who have managed to get it working, and I'd hate to take it away from them. -
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Re: XSPF
Fri, July 20, 2007 - 1:57 AMThanks, Jenni.
It's a superneat function so I'd really hate to see it pulled. If you'll look at my profile, you'll see the XSPF module actually is working...but as I describe above, it's grabbing a deafult playlist and not accepting any of the ones I created.
Okay, it functions. We can see that.
Who knows more ?
Thanks again, Jenni.
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Re: XSPF
Tue, July 24, 2007 - 8:56 AMCurt,
The site plurn.com doesn't have a crossdomain.xml file. Flash needs to know that it's ok to grab resources from a remote domain. See
kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do
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Re: XSPF
Tue, July 24, 2007 - 9:04 AMThanks Chris, thanks Ian.
I get the picture. It's a good thing we have a number of hosting possibilities. I'll look into a few as I find the time. Surely one will have the crossdomain.xml file or the possibility to add it to the root DIR. Hosting to one's own server is yet another possibility I hadn't looked into yet. It's not rocket science so I'm confident we can get our heads around it.
Many thanks again and cheers / chins up !
curt
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Re: XSPF
Mon, July 23, 2007 - 6:44 PMyo curt
im going thru the same issue.. i found this discussion looking up the xspf code we both need. im doing it for a skatepark website (academysk8park.com) and was trying to impliment a flash-based music player, which i found on sourceforge. (the Fabricio Zuardi design player)... there's some kind of code you have to enter when you imbed the player which is unusual, but here are a few lines:
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="170"
data="" title="yourdomain.com/xspf_player.swf">yourdomain.com/xspf_player.swf
<param name="movie"
value="yourdomain.com/xspf_player.swf />
</object>
evidently you must identify the location of the playlist when you imbed the code... so, good luck and if you found out anything helpful, email me at townofnewhaven@gmail.com (im still playing around trying to get this to work).
