YouTube Audio Player Updates
The YouTube Audio Player has gotten three much-needed updates.
- Autoplay
- Loop
- Playlist Support
The first two, Autoplay and loop – which is self-explanatory, are checkboxes that allow you to enable them. (You’ll need to click Make to update the embeddable code).
The third, Playlist Support is fairly self-explanatory. This allows you to embed not just a single video, but an entire playlist using the audio player. There are two ways to use this feature. Either enter the URL of a playlist URL, or the URL of a video in a playlist and check the “Entire Playlist” option.
Of course, with these updates comes an update (hopefully the last) to the bookmarklet, which can be added to your browser bar by dragging this link: Generate Audio Player.
Enjoy!
It’s Facebook’s Turn to Scratch OUR Back
Quite possibly one of the largest and most influential things pulling users to Facebook has always been the application platform. It’s simple, it’s intuitive, and developers are doing everything they can to make money off the platform, including advertisements and resorting to sleazy scams like Offerpal and SuperRewards, all the while paying Facebook more and more money for advertising that, most of the time appears on other application’s sidebar.
Why has it taken us Developers this long to realize it? Facebook is making a profit off of our applications and giving us absolutely nothing in return. Not only are developers paying Facebook to get more users, but we’re giving them free advertising space and revenue. It’s obviously time that Facebook started scratching the developer’s back by giving them some of the revenue off the advertisements that appear on their own application pages! This would offer application developers a clean, non-scammy, non-shoddy revenue stream with advertisements that would always fit with the Facebook platform policy, without even disrupting the feel of the application.
Facebook is constantly complaining about the scammy and shoddy methods developers implement to try to make their application more viral to manage some form of income, but if Facebook just paid developers a percentage for the advertisements being placed on those same developer’s applications, than the entire Facebook experience would be cleaner and much more appealing to the end user.
Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before?
The King of all Music Apps
Five years ago, I didn’t care a single little bit about music in any way shape or form. Now, I have over 4 gibibytes or so of it, and I can’t seem to find an application to manage it decently.
I recently tried MediaMonkey, but what i thought would auto-update all of my music, just assigned it to the album of a completely unrelated artist and screwed up a good bit of my library! Ughh!
So, I’m still trying to find a Music Management Application that can do the following:
- Update MP3 ID3 Tags (with:)
- Update Album Artwork (High Resolution)
- Update Album and Track names and Artists, Year, Genre (basics)
- Add/Update Lyrics (Unsynchronized & Synchronized if Possible)
- Move into custom directories the user specifies.
It needs to do this for both English/Japanese tracks. iTunes and Windows Media Player both do most of these functions fairly well, but their library isn’t nearly big enough.
If I had an app that could do all that perfectly, and almost automatically, that would be great. Pulling the data from wherever it needed to, FreeDB, Gracenote, Amazon, anything it could possibly get its hands on.
Does anybody know of an app that does all/most of this, or am I eventually going to have to write my own?
C++, I learned it
Practically overnight, too. Of course, that thanks to my knowledge of Java and PHP, as well as tutorials by About.com. Basically, C++ is like this: