I'm working on my website where I have a music player. The annoying part is that when I browse to another page the player stops and starts from begining...
What I want is to have a persistent music player. So how can I make the div that contains the music player to be static when browsing to another page?
The website: demo(dot)zdringhi-art(dot)com
Thanks!
WEB is stateless.
So if you move to another page there is no way for a div to remain the same.
Although what you can do is that... Hmm as follows.
Have a single page and have your div in there.
Then the other part of the page is loaded via ajax.
also when a link is clicked only parts of pages will be loaded.
Seems too much of coding , but is the only feasible option.
For eg take facebook
Gurav shah is correct, the web is stateless so if you are changing pages you only have a few options for this.
Frames, yes before anyone shouts this is what they were designed for. You could have the music player in one HTML frame and the rest of the page in another so when you move around you are only updating the main content frame.
Or do as gurav suggests and make your whole site one page and update the content with Ajax, so the music Div does not change.
Pass the current position of the player to the next page when you click a link.
to another page
Where getseconds() returns the current position of the music player and passes it to the next page then when that page is loaded you read in the variable from the URL and start the player from there.
Using frames is one solution but since you are using JQuery on your site you should check out .load (http://api.jquery.com/load/). It allows you to load the content of another page and put it somewhere in the current page. Something like this:
$(function () {
$("a").click(function (e) {
e.preventDefault(); // don't follow the link
$("#ja-container").load($(this).attr("href") + " #ja-container");
/* Load the new page using ajax request, take the content in #ja-container from that new page and put it in the current page's #ja-container */
});
});
This is not a complete solution: when someone clicks Concerts -> Agenda you should keep Agenda visible.
Personally, instead of forced background music I'd rather like to see a page with Youtube videos of the people playing the music.
Well, yes HTTP is stateless. what you can do is create a cookie, and update it with current location/time value of the player, constantly. This way, when you go to any other page you can read time/location from cookie.
otherwise, in a cookie less approach, sending AJAXed location/time data back-forth server-client will be too much network.
If I was doing this, I would have gone cookie way.
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I want to add a background music to my website, but i want that music to play continuously across all pages.
For e.g: i have music which is approx 10min, i am on Home page for 2 minutes music starts from 1 second, when i goto other page the music should start from 2 minutes 1 second.
i've searched across Google & StackOverflow but unfortunately didn't found any answer as per my requirement. :(
i just wanted to know that is it possible to do??? If yes then what kind of mechanism is used for that???
As far as I know, this is not quite easy to accomplish.
There are two practices you may follow, with the first being the most common (IMHO).
Sites that have a music background that doesn't start all over when you navigate, mostly use Ajax or similar methods to navigate, instead of allowing the page to normally refresh. This is mostly common with flash websites, but it is possible to do with Ajax refreshing just the inner content of your site.
The second way would involve somehow passing on a variable that remembers where the user was, but you cannot avoid the loading gaps, and the whole result would be very uncommon and not really pleasant.
There's a few ways you can do this off the top of my head. The easiest would probably be some JavaScript that would load the content of the next page into the current page:
<div id="content">[Your changing page content goes in here]</div>
A link:
Some Page
Some JS:
function loadNext(page){
//using jquery
// assigning to a var like this lets you do things like abort the call
var jqxhr = $.ajax({type:"get",url:page,dataType:"text"});
jqxhr.success(function(result){ $("#content").html(result); });
}
Another, probably simpler way is to load your page content into an iframe and then just have them navigate within that, that'd be a lot safer too as it won't break if people have JS disabled.
<iframe src="homepage.html"></iframe> //You'll need to size this to whatever the content needs obviously, like 'style="width:100%;height:100%"'
Both of these solutions require that your content be able to be separately loaded from the wrapper of the page, so that things like headers and footers don't duplicate infinitely as you navigate around.
I'm setting up a radio/stream player on a website. The player could be an iframe with/or an object (type="application/x-shockwave-flash") or an <audio> element, inside the document in a sidebar, repeated all along the website. When the stream is playing and you browse thru any link to another site of the website the stream is obviously interrupted because of the loading of the site.
I want the player to keep playing even if I browse to another part of the site thru a link (ex. click on HOME) just like SoundCloud and Hypem do. I know these site are doing it by refreshing the rest of the site with ajax and leaving the player untouched.
My question is, is there another way to make this iframe/object/audio element to keep playing?
Once you have switched to the next page, everything on the original page is destroyed and stops running. There is no direct way around this fact. As you have said, the other sites work by not actually switching pages.
A common way to keep the audio going is to use a popup window for your player. This way, the audio player page is still around. You can even communicate with it from the other pages. (Check out JunoDownload.com for an example.) This is not typically a good method, as many popup blockers simply block all popups. Most popup blockers only block popups initiated outside of a user action though, so if you had a "play" button that launched the popup window, most users would still get it. Another reason this is a bad idea though is because it is a bit of a jarring user experience.
Another way is to simply set your link targets to _blank, opening them in a new tab or window. Just be careful to only do this from links from your player page.
Finally, some sites will continually post playback status to the server. On the next page, if a song was playing on the previous page, a new player will be started at the point in which the last page stopped. This is a bit annoying though, as the music stops for a period of time while that player loads.
So I have been looking into this for a few weeks and have come up with nothing!
I work on the website for my families music store, and have been asked to add a "Links" page to the website. My goal would be to have the categories of our vendors (i.e. Violin, Guitar, Piano, etc.) on the left of the page and when the category is selected the links come up on the right. That part I have. The tricky part here is: When a link to a vendor (i.e. Fender, G&L, Yahmaha) is clicked instead of taking them directly to the site, I want it to take them all to the same page, but embeded on that page is the site.
I have done a lot of research on this and have come up with nothing. I could just go through and make a new page for each of the vendors, with the embedding on each individual page, but that is extremely time consuming with the amount of vendors.
Is something like this at all possible? I've been playing with embedding itself and have that down. It just comes down to, which link did they click, and loading that specific page.
If there is any more information you may need to help or point me in the right direction please let me know! Same with any code that may be helpful!
I've come up dead on all my research on this.
EDIT: I guess my ultimate goal is that it will look something like this: http://answers.yahoo.com/ so that the vendors website is open on bottom, but our stores banner and links are still at the top. Out website can be found here: http://www.brassbellmusic.com/default.aspx
I've created a JSFiddle to demo this functionality using jQuery.
We iterate through the list of brand links in the ul:
$('#brandListing a')
Capturing a click event on each:
.click(function(ev){
jQuery passes an event object to the anonymous function (ev). When the link is clicked, we first must prevent the default action, which is to follow the link. Then we update the src attribute of the iframe (the "embedded page") with the value of the href that was clicked:
ev.preventDefault();
$('#embeddedBrandWebsite').attr('src', ev.target.href);
You'll need to add the jQuery library to your page to use my code sample, but it's possible to replicate the functionality without it.
EDIT
The sample above is for a single page implementation, where links and the embed are on the same page. To achieve the requested "transfer of information," I recommend passing the target href as a GET parameter (brassbellmusic.com/brandEmbed.aspx?path=http%3A//www.gibson.com/). On the single "embed" page, you can then extract this either on the server side to set the iframe's src, or using javascript. With javascript, you might use:
function getURLParameter(name) {
return decodeURI(
(RegExp(name + '=' + '(.+?)(&|$)').exec(location.search)||[,null])[1]
);
}
Source
And then after your document is ready, set the iframe src using getURLParameter('path').
I have a website that has a music player in one of the corners. Because I didn't want the music to stop everytime the user changes part of the website, I used an iFrame for the content. So when someone clicks the menu buttons, all that changes is the source of the iFrame.
Now the only problem is if someone tries to open one of the sub-pages in a new tab/window. All they get is black text on a white background, with the content that was supposed to be in the iFrame.
Is there any way to prevent this?
Oh, and the page this is about is www.sinjabe.com if that helps.
Thanks
The most logical solution (to me...) would be to detach the music player from the page; have the music player open in a different window / tab. You can have the music player in a pop-up window when the visitor of your site requests it / clicks on it.
Other solutions like detecting if the content has a parent frame, will lead to multiple music players if someone opens a page in a new tab / window.
You can alter your sub-pages to detect if they are loaded in an iframe like this:
(window.location != window.parent.location) ? true : false;
and then load or redirect to the full template as needed.
Put this on your sub pages:
<script type="text/javascript">
if (window.location == window.parent.location)
this.window.location = 'main_site.html';
</script>
-- Give credit for this one #George Cummins for writting such a short conditional statment :)
This will redirect any direct incomming trafic on your subpages to your main page. I must warn you though, that iframes for displaying such content are highly SEO unefficient, and URL useless in terms of history mapping (back button will not work) and link sharing, because the main URL doesn't change while you click on menu buttons.
I have a music player swf embedded on an html page. Is there any way to have the music continuously play, even when the different html pages are loaded? When a link is clicked, the page is refreshed, also restarting the swf(music).
If the site was AJAX driven, this wouldn't be a problem, but all my pages are static. I suppose I could put the entire body in an iframe, but there has to be a better option. I am certainly open to the idea of using ajax here, but I do not have much ajax experience. Any ideas?
Ajax is really not that hard to learn, use it.
If you reload another page or the same page with a normal link, you will lose your current status in your embedded player. So you either have to use a non-standard link-mechanism, separate your player from the page or save your current status on change of the page. Your options basically are:
Use Ajax and never actually load a new page, but only new content (<- best solution, imho)
Use the standard link mechanism, but do it in an iframe, the player runs in a parent page (I agree with you, that wouldn't be nice)
Load the player in a new Window, put it in the background or something. This might be better than the iframe-solution, but you might get some difficulties with popup-blockers. Remember to close your popup when the user leaves your page.
Save the status of the player in a cookie whenever a link is clicked. On pageload check for the cookie and continue playing at the saved position. This will result in small breaks during playback and you need to be able to interact with the music player.