embed html code for "now playing" feature

[doomshine]

hi!

i've just succesfully launched my own shoutcast radio station after years of suffering and failed efforts..

since i can't embed neither winamp players nor realone players on my website, i had to embed a windows media player instead. it works well, but I does not allow me to see what's playing on my radio.

Is there a way of embedding an html code with the current "now playing" information??

thanks a lot!

oh..I forgot to tell that I have a simple blog, and it doesn't allow javascript, neither flash codes. only html

i tried some plugins, even the nowplayingtoweb, but the site that offers the service is down..i installed the plugin anyway and the only thing i got was a nice "now playing" on the top of my mozilla browser windows

[NJK]

please use the SEACH function next time
this question gets asked some 25 times each week

www.streamsolutions.co.uk/embedded

[doomshine]

Originally posted by spaceplay
please use the SEACH function next time
this question gets asked some 25 times each week

www.streamsolutions.co.uk/embedded

hmmm..still i can't find the answer I'm looking for...are you just too tired or not willing to answer back?

it's not nice when you ask for help and you get a "stupid, use the search function, retarded"

thanx for nothing

[Sawg]

You cannot embed a "Now Playing" script with HTML only. You need to have a server that supports something like PHP.

Winamp cannot be embedded into a Webpage.

[djSpinnerCee]

Here's another stick in the fire:

If you have an embedded WMP and a code with the current track, you cannot update the track info without interrupting the embedded player. So any code you find that intends to show track info on the same page as an embedded WMP must be in an iFrame.

A lot of HTML "trix" to learn just for some eye candy... but I guess everyone wants to be like GooTube and kidSpace.

[gameplaya15143]

Originally posted by djSpinnerCee
GooTube and kidSpace.

rofls

Like djSpinnerCee said, use an iframe to show what song is playing.

in your nowplaying.html file, set the refresh back to itself every minute or so. That way the song will update (the shorter the refresh, the more accurate). This can be done with icecast2 very easily. For shoutcast, I'm not so sure.. you might want to look for one of the image generator scripts to do it. www.blueforge.org has one I think (I have not tested it)

[Thebig429]

yea theres will work, i use it look at my signature.

[doomshine]

great thebig429!!!

woa! how did you do that!!

i've tried the nowplaying to web but the only thing i get is a message on my browser showing the song I'm playing

I know I'm being a pain in the a** but i'm kind of desperate here

I could find the images on blueforge, but not a single link...
do i have to download a plugin or something to make it work?



thanx guys

[djSpinnerCee]

The only choice you have is a script that returns an image -- the script would be the src= target of an <img....> tag that appears on the messageboard/blog.

The script will have to be hosted by you somewhere that supports PHP and its socket (fsockopen(), fopen(url) etc...) functions (a lot of PHP hosting does not).

This image will only be current when the board page the tag appears on is loaded or refreshed by the visitor.

Think about what you'll have to go through just to tag a message board. It's probably not really worth the work.

[Goodtimez]

Amptracker has a "Now Playing" widget that displays the current song and Album art if found. Check it out.

It will only work on pages that support javascript, which as you said your blog does not have, but you may be able to use this on your website.

[Thebig429]

Yea amptracker is excellent too!
Blue forge forums for help http://www.blueforge.org/forum/

[wrokradiodj]

Is there anyway to put the AMPTracker thing as a sig in any forums, like this one, like putting it in an iframe? If not are there any now playing sig's for SAM Broadcaster?

[Thebig429]

You can do it through blue forge with Sam.
1 Register http://www.blueforge.net/playing/register.php?hl=en
2 Sign in http://www.blueforge.net/playing/login.php?hl=en
3Click on your IDs in control panel then Sign up a new ID
4 after that click on shout cast enter the server info, your long ID numbers & letters is your token.
5 Next go back to Your IDs then hit code . check winamp then
Shoutcast Now Playing Chart: Image Version. Check off style then hit continue to get the code.

[wrokradiodj]

I already knew that, I want to know if you can put the AMPTracker thing into an iframe and then put it in your sig. If not I'll just do what the big 429 said.

[Nick@ss]

you can call an html page with php on in a windows media player if that helps.

eg.. http://www.streamsolutions.co.uk/scripts/Links/ss.asx

this can be found here,,
http://www.streamsolutions.co.uk/index.php?page=scripts

it may be close to what you are looking for

[djSpinnerCee]

The reason "why" you want to be able to produce an image, plain text (with inline PHP) or javascript is because you want to be able to use what your webhost or forum that you want to post to allows -- an HTML image "code" is accepted just about anywhere, but at a price -- PHP scripts that produce images load the host server more than any other method.

Anything that can be placed in any HTML webpage can also be placed in an iFrame (that includes script, embed, and img codes), because it's just a mini HTML page (displayed within aonther HTML page), so all the rules about a webpage apply to it -- the issue is that an iframe (its HTML codes) can't be placed on every page -- ie: you can't use iFrame, script, or embed codes here, in an RSS feed, or on mySpace, so you have to know.

It's not easy -- there are many options, but they're all not gonna work for everyone. There are even options that have never been expressed or explored here, that can work if you take the time to explore them.

Everyone wants codes, codes, codes, and scripts -- it's just not that simple.

[Rysin109]

It would be easy to make a template with my program (see my sig) and add an HTML iFrame. To make a "Now Playing" template, create an html file with the following HTML Code

code:
 

<html>



<head>

<title>Now Playing HTML Template</title>

</head>



<body bgcolor="#000000">



<font face="verdana" color = "#FFFFFF">

<b>Now Playing:</b> [[[currentmedia]]]

</body>



</html>

(basically you can edit anything in this HTML file, "[[[currentmedia]]]" will be replaced with the song when Statistics takes the template in and processes it)

Inside Statistics v4, click "Browse" in options under "Display Templates" and find your HTML file... Do not select this template in the selection combo once you have loaded it, just browse it and load it then click cancel on the options.

Now you need to share the HTML file on the HTTP Server which is built into Statistics. To do this, save your address (Tools>Saved Addresses>New"). Type your stream details and check the box which says "Serve the statistics..." Now you'll be asked for a "token". A token is like a directory which will point to the file (case sensitive), so if you type "nowplaying" and choose "Now Playing HTML Template" (unless you changed the title tag in the HTML file), add an iframe to your site which points to http://YourIP:8500/nowplaying ('nowplaying' was the token) - it will show your now playing stats.