Recently, Popcorn.js began to support custom players. When Henrik Moltke started a conversation going to get Soundcloud working with Popcorn, beautiful things started to happen. Soundcloud and Popcorn developers collaborated to create a Soundcloud player as well as some great plugins. Watch out for upcoming work from Henrik, Mark Boas and more as Mozilla’s Hyper Audio project continues: they’ve been cooking up some great works and demos. The union of Popcorn.js, Soundcloud, Radiolab, combined with Henrik, Mark and many others has produced a great Radiolab Player demo. For my own part in the process, working with everyone has been terrific.
Popcorn 0.5 has also come out today, and includes some of the results of this effort. A custom player for use with Soundcloud has landed, which can be used with Popcorn simply, like so:
var popcorn = Popcorn( Popcorn.soundcloud( "contentId", "http://soundcloud.com/fitn/cotton-in-the-ears" } ));
Using the Soundcloud player with Popcorn like this will place Soundcloud’s player inside the HTML Element on the web page with the corresponding id “contentId”. The Soundcloud player will then play the track found at “http://soundcloud.com/fitn/cotton-in-the-ears”. This can then all be controlled through Popcorn, complete with timed track events. Be sure to check it and more out in the new release.
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