phil ringnalda

Fun toy of the day: Blogamp is a Winamp plugin that ftps your playlist to your server as a javascript file, which is then read and displayed by a second .js file. It’s really pretty simple to install, unless you run into troubles with your paths and what’s in which directory, but not so simple to customize. Hack number one: to get it to display the artist on one line, and the title on the next (so it doesn’t just break wherever in a long title), edit display_playlist.js and add “musics[i].title = musics[i].title.replace(/-/,'<br>’);” as shown below:

if ( musics[i] )
{
musics[i].title = musics[i].title.replace(/-/,'<br>’);
//DisplaySong( musics[i], i, “font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;font-size:8pt;”, “font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;” );
DisplaySong( musics[i], i, style1, style2, hide_hr );
}

Up next: adding links. I managed to hack in one link in one Shannon Campbell song, by editing the mp3 properties and adding the link to the author data, but that’s not a very satisfactory solution. I’d rather put the links in display_playlist.js, and look them up while displaying, but I’m still trying to decide between the much easier to manage scheme of having a single link per artist, or having a separate link for each song (more useful, but a lot more trouble to implement and maintain).