Flash Audio Player Tutorial or How to Create Flash mp3 Players
If you need to create a flash audio
mp3 player or radio and you don’t know how, then all you need is neat
software and this tutorial. Stop browsing the web searching for flash-based
audio player, because the solution is below.
Flarium Ltd. has developed
two flash-based sound players which can solve the problem of embedding
audio files on your web site.
Fun SoundPlayer Maker and
FlashWAmp have all the features needed for creating and publishing web
music player. What are the main features of tools for creating flash
sound players?
They must create players which
are:
- easy to make and embed on a web
site
- full-functional
- stylish looking
- easy to modify even after
publishing
- supporting various streaming formats
including radio streaming.
Let’s look through these features with
reference to Fun SoundPlayer Maker and FlashWAmp.
They’re really easy to
make.
Flash audio player can be created
in 3 steps:
1) The first step is to choose the skin
for player.
Select one of the templates in Fun
SoundPlayer Maker or one of the Winamp skins for
FlashWAmp.
Select on of the templates in Fun
SoundPlayer Maker
Select one of the Winamp skins in
FlashWAmp
2) The second step is to customize player
and create a playlist.
Fun SoundPlayer Maker allows
changing the color scheme of player and adjusting player’s size.
Adjust your sound player’s settings
(Fun SoundPlayer Maker)
FlashWAmp allows choosing
different player’s view (normal and small with or without playlist) and changing
playlist’s height.
To compose a playlist, just browse  the necessary
files and open them or add URL of stream online radio.
3) The last step is
publishing.
Both Fun SoundPlayer Maker and
FlashWAmp offers you to choose three variants of publishing you web sound
player: save as SWF only, save as SWF and template HTML-page, and save as SWF
and copy template HTML code to clipboard. The latter is handy to embed flash
audio player on your web-site immediately. All you have to do is simply to open
the HTML -page on which the player will be placed with any html code editor and
paste the player’s html code from clipboard. Then you should upload saved SWF
file, playlist file (playlist.xml) and all sound files you added to your
playlist to you server (the list of necessary files is given by programs when
publishing is complete).
Choose one of the three variants to
publish your web sound player
That’s all you have to do to enjoy cool
flash sound player on your web-site. No programming skills or flash
experience is needed. So, flash music players created with Fun
SoundPlayer Maker and FlashWAmp are really easy to embed.
Another benefit of the programs is that you need no additional equipment like
streaming servers. And your visitors need no external programs to playback
audio, because flash content can be experienced by over 98% of internet users
without downloading or installing the plug-in.
Flash mp3 player must be
full-functional. What does that mean? It should have standard control
buttons and seeking bar so that users may skip, control all the
playback functions and find their favorite bit. Flash audio players
created with Fun SoundPlayer Maker have play/pause, stop, next and
previous buttons, volume control and seeking bar (controls may vary depending on
what template you use). FlashWAmp players have all control buttons
of Winamp skins, volume control and seeking bar.
Also, flash sound player should
look stylish. Nice-looking audio player will become not only a functional part
of your site but a decorative element as well. Fun SoundPlayer Maker
offers you a wide range of player’s templates which can meet your every need.
You can choose button configuration which allow to turn on/off one
embedded audio file, or use a full-functional player with multiple tracks
support and control buttons.
Choose button to turn music on/off or
a full-functional player
Taking into account that the color scheme
of each template can be changed, you can be sure that player will fit your
site’s design perfectly.
Change player’s color scheme to your
liking (Fun SoundPlayer Maker)
And what about FlashWAmp – it’s a
tool for converting any Winamp skins into a flash sound player. Thus, you
can use any of thousands free Winamp skins as your player’s
skin.
Do you want to create a new sound player
and add it to your web site every time you want to change a playlist of player’s
color? No? So, it’s important for you that flash audio player can easily
be modified even after publishing. Sound players published with Fun
SoundPlayer Maker and FlashWAmp can be modified within a few minutes.
To modify player easily, remember that SWF file contains information about
player’s design and playlist file (playlist.xml) determines what to play. So, if
you need to change one of the parameters (playlist only or design only), you
don’t have to modify each file. If you want to change your player design
without changing its playlist – make new design with any playlist (even of 1
song), create SWF file and replace SWF in your web folder, where all uploaded
files are. Don’t replace playlist – and you will get different-looking player
with the same playlist. Make new SWF file with the same name as previous SWF
file has, and you won’t even have to change HTML code. The only thing you must
take into account is player’s type – for example, if your previous player had
multiple tracks support, choose new player with the same option so that it may
function normally. And if you want to change playlist only – edit
playlist in any text editor (e.g. Notepad) and upload audio files added to
playlist to the web folder containing all player files. If you can’t manage
changing playlist with text editor, create any player with necessary playlist
and replace playlist.xml only without changing HTML code.
And the last but not least – flash sound
player must support various streaming formats.
Fun SoundPlayer Maker and
FlashWAmp can stream both mp3 and online radio due to MPEG
audio streaming support. Fun SoundPlayer Maker also allows
recording voice  and its
further use as a playlist file.
Well, do you want to create and embed
flash mp3 player or flash radio player? A button or full-functional
player? Flash audio player which looks exactly as you wish or
Winamp-styled player? Whatever you want with Fun SoundPlayer Maker and
FlashWAmp. Create your perfect flash sound player with no
experience and in no time.
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