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  Three Free & Easy Web Audio Players
Subject:   Suggestion - iPhone support
Date:   2008-08-22 20:29:50
From:   msor
David - I have been following your work and research on embedded audio players, and have appreciated your efforts.


Very nice that you chose to use Quicktime rather than flash. I would suggest extending this to support the iPhone, since it would be a fairly small leap I think. I was thinking of doing something similar. iPhone supports bookmarklets. Its quicktime plugin also supports playlists via the qtnext embed parameter, as I noted here for another project: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=453859


Would be very cool to have a bookmarklet that exposes an embedded quicktime control (maybe even with poster image related to content?) that when clicked on in iphone opens up a playlist enabled quicktime player. One plus in iPhone 2.0 firmware is that the forward and back controls are now enabled for qtnext-based playlists.


Even better, putting checkboxes next to each audio file so that one could choose which mp3 on the page should be included in the generated playlist.


Just a few ideas to take this even further. All of this would work on both iPhone and any modern browser.


Please sign me up as a tester or javascript helper if I can assist.


- Matt.

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  • David Battino photo Suggestion - iPhone support
    2008-08-22 23:01:44  David Battino | O'Reilly Blogger [View]

    Thanks, Matt. As suggested by the "punchbowl" link, so much of my time has been spent trying to make this work on different browsers. Knowing I could rely on the iPhone to have QuickTime would open up some exciting possibilities.