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HTML5 MP3 Player - Plays local files and parses ID3 tags
- jwingy 16y agoDoesn't look like it supports unicode - no Chinese on my Chinese mp3s!
- HaloZero 16y agoIt won't let me open any mp3 files in my iTunes collection... Using Chrome Dev Channel + Mac OSX. Does Chrome not support this?
- nealb 16y agoWorked well in Chrome 10 on Windows 7 for the first few minutes then crashed. Adding files was a little bit slow but the audio playback and tagging worked well. Nicely done though, it's very cool!
- trotsky 16y agoWhat does the security model for opening the files look like? If you specify a directory chooser the app can span the directory tree and open/parse all files readable to the user? Any idea if it will walk symbolic links? I'm a bit surprised there isn't more of a user warning from the browser. Nice proof of concept though! Very impressive what can be done. Worked well in stable channel + openSUSE.
- jackolas 16y agoI assume you can't read out data without the user clicking on a browser styled "choose" button.
- nl 16y agoExactly. The permission is implicitly granted by the user when they select a file. (Obviously this is implementation specific, but I think all implementations behave this was)
- pat2man 16y agoOperating systems seem to care a lot about write access , less about read access. As much as browsers should care about this an OS should do some sandboxing.
- Vivtek 16y agoThat is just too cool.
- darkletterL 16y agoWorks perfectly fine on Chrome Dev + Win 7. Wish there was a way to organize songs and make playlists though.
- 51Cards 16y agoI'm quite curious about the file reading code. With a simple directory browse from the user couldn't you start to walk the file tree and read whatever you liked? Nothing I see to stop something like this then firing off Ajax calls to send up everything it finds. I think some digging through the code is in order.
- trotsky 16y agoIt seems quite clear that you could package up all files and send them to the server. I've read through the code in this example though and I don't see anything that could be doing that here. Since all of the code is being served off of github I think it'd be pretty hard to switch in some malicious code at times, but I would be pretty wary of granting access to a webkitdirectory chooser type from a less transparent site.
- BrainScraps 16y agoBrilliant!
- shii 16y agoNo success on my Cr-48 running latest ChromeOS. Nice work though, antimatter15, keep it up!
- MatthewRayfield 16y agoThis is pretty awesome. I was unaware of Chrome's directory opening abilities. That's a game changer for this kind of app.
- est 16y agothe core: <input type="file" webkitdirectory directory multiple mozdirectory onchange="getSongs(this.files)"> There is a security issue on windows, try type `shell:cache` in the directory browsing dialog.
- jorsh 16y agoWhile quaint, I was expecting something slightly more interesting like an actual MP3 decoder in Javascript? The use of Localstorage is kind of neat though and doesn't get enough attention.
- grigory 16y agoThis is so awesome. Having tried numerous audio players for OSX I just can't find something that I'm satisfied with. I guess I'll just start building my own now :)
- sp332 16y agoWell, it doesn't read ID3 tags, but if you just drag your music folder into Firefox, you can browse around and play MP3, Vorbis etc. files. It also works with videos.
- antimatter15 16y agoYeah, it does.
- Ruudjah 16y agoChrome 10: Succes (although I can only select a folder) Firefox 3.6: fail Chromium 10: loads, fails to play Opera: loads site with errors, clicking button doesn't do anything
- Sephr 16y ago> Chromium 10: loads, fails to play Make sure to use OGG Vorbis audio in Chromium. I'm guessing you tried to play MP3.
- aj700 16y agoNot talking about this specifically, but the model: If an app only deals with local data, does it need to be a web app?, except that thereby it becomes zero-install, zero-update, global and cross-platform. Could or is ChromeOS going to play local mp3s before? It's not much of an OS if it can only play mp3s on a server somewhere, with a browser plugin. Will Spotify and other streaming clients work on it? Is it cloud data only?