[Zope] Dynamic Metafile for All Players (Using MP3)

[Marc Lindahl]

Did you take a look at my Audio product 
(http://www.zope.org/Members/bowerymarc)?

I looked at your site but don't see any code so I don't see what your 
approach is.  Why don't you put some text files up there with the code, 
or a wiki or something?  My approach was to use a pair of generic tags 
(e.g. EMBED), which then uses whatever default audio 'viewer' you have 
set up.  Seems to work the best in my tests.

I think someone may have made an 'external file' version of Audio, but 
I wouldn't recommend it (zope is an http server, the protocol isn't 
designed for streaming) - the only thing that really makes sense is if 
you have a streaming server and set up a link to it (which I have in my 
product) in which case your stored audio would probably be a snippet.

Right now Audio only decodes id3v1 tags, but I'm hoping to update it in 
a few weeks (unless someone else wants to do it!)

M

On Wednesday, December 24, 2003, at 09:25  AM, KJZZ Webmaster wrote:

> I just put into production a process for dealing with MP3 audio in Zope
> which (while it does not read the id3 tag) does support the most common
> media players in the most common browsers.
>
> If anyone is interested and would like to download the prototype of the
> code for zope, you can download the .zexp file here:
>
>   http://jtsitedesigns.freezope.org/mediafolders/
>
> (They do not allow audio on the freezope servers, nor do they have the 
> ExtFile
>
> product installed, so this is not functional. But it will get you in 
> the
> ballpark).
>
> I would like to post this on the Zope.org site as a Zope product, or 
> distribute
> this as a .Zexp file, but I am new to creating products from scratch in
> Zope and am a bit unsure as to the best way to go.  If anyone is 
> interested
> in helping to develop this, please let me know.
>
> Additionally, if you would like to see how this works on a live site, 
> see:
>
>   http://kjzz.org/news/arizona/archives/200401/legislatureends
>
> Any feedback you might have for how this process works with a number of
> browsers and players is more than welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John T.
>
>
>
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