Testing the new del.icio.us playtagger - easy streamed audio
23-November-2005
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Jack, I'm Mellow, by Catfish Keith
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- del.icio.us playtagger
- page of 'podcasted' interviews
This is just a test of del.icio.us playtagger - the new shared javascript from del.icio.us which enhances mp3 links with a lightweight flash object to play the audio, streamed, in the browser, in your page. The enhancement also places a tag-me link to post the mp3 to delicious.
This could be a great way for ordinary endusers to get the best of both podcasting and in-page playing: posting mp3 files is the open, standards-based way to share audio, allowing real RSS podcasting, permalink-sharing, user-timed listening etc. But some authors like the in-page feature that an embedded flash object provides, and seem unaware of the advantages of simply posting mp3's from the user's point of view. For an example of audio which will play in the page via Flash, but otherwise cannot be used, see this page of 'podcasted' interviews
If this little delicious shared javascript trickery works, it should mean that just attaching an audio file to a knotes blog post makes it playable in the page and usable as a file if the user wants to save it, link to it, or subscribe to podcasts.
I'm attaching a little audio file: please forgive the copyright-busting; if you enjoy it, do by all means look Catfish Keith up and buy some CDs :o)
If this works, you should be able to do streamed listening to the audio attachment (see above for the link - it should have a little arrow nexk to it, like a forward button). I may have to change some templates to get the script include into the head; for this example I'm first trying the script include in the body of this message. I looked over the 3289 bytes of the include and it does not look to me as if it needs to be in the page header.
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