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  roamin

  4 months ago

  Perfect, Dan, just what I was looking for. Minimal, effective. I see you already have a bookmarklet available! Kudos and thanks!
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  Jay Robinson

  4 months ago

  This is really cool! I'd really enjoy being able to style with CSS, though.
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  Dan Kantor

  4 months ago

  Jay - you should be able to style it. Have a look at http://tuneage.tumblr.com/
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  Jay Robinson

  4 months ago

  Doh! Sorry.
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  Todd Wickersty

  4 months ago

  Dan - This is fantastic. I've been discussing with others how to get this accomplished on our live music tumblelog and now we don't need to. I really like the placement of the player - very slick.
  
  You can check it out at http://orangesunshine.org and http://tumblr.toddwickersty.net.
  
  Thanks again!
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  Dan Kantor

  4 months ago

  Todd - awesome blog. Of course any blog that starts with Pearl Jam at Bonnaroo has to be awesome :)
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  Todd Wickersty

  4 months ago

  Thanks Dan. Glad you like it.
  
  In case you are looking for enhancements, I have a couple ideas that have
  probably been mentioned already:
  1. Random play mode - Give the user the option to play tracks in a random
  sequence
  2. Enable scrobbling for last.fm
  
  However, I am extremely happy with what you've done to date and don't care
  if you change it one bit. Thanks again!
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  Dan Kantor

  4 months ago

  Great ideas. Thank you for posting them here.
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  livejamie

  1 month ago

  I came here to make those two exact suggestions. Strange.
  
  The random should be fairly easy to implement, shouldn't it, Dan?
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  Dan Kantor

  1 month ago

  It's a little tricky because Tumblr only sends 20 songs at a time. Doing random on those 20 is easy. But to do random on the whole set of audio posts is hard.
  
  I'm a huge last.fm guy and scrobbling is very important to me. It is somewhat complex but is definitely on the to-do list.
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  Eric

  4 months ago

  Dan. Great work! I hope lots of people put this into their tumblelogs, I would go to their actual site a lot more and play music there.
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  Dan Kantor

  4 months ago

  Thanks Eric. I hope so too
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  britticisms

  4 months ago

  Amazing.
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  davidkarp

  4 months ago

  This is awesome, Dan!
  
  If the SCRIPT tag doesn't need to appear in the HEAD, it might be better for users to paste this in their Description field. That will work for non-custom themes, and survive any theme changes.
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  Dan Kantor

  4 months ago

  Thanks David.
  
  I put it in the Description field and it seemed to hold up the page render a bit. It will work, but I think most people would rather not have their page wait for it.
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  Joe Lazarus

  4 months ago

  Hell yeah! I love the footer placement vs. yet another sidebar widget. The colors even match pretty well with my site...
  
  http://joelaz.com
  
  Anyway you can hack this into the dashboard so we can listen to the people we follow as a playlist? Maybe a greasemonkey script or something? Ok, I'll shut up and go away now.
  
  Awesome job.
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  daryn

  4 months ago

  awesome job, looks great!
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  bijan

  4 months ago

  Fantastic Dan. Great job!
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  bijan

  4 months ago

  question/suggestion:
  
  can you tweak the code so it doesn't frame the page. I'd much rather have it set up so you have to scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the streampad player.
  
  thoughts?
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  Dan Kantor

  4 months ago

  Hi Bijan,
  
  That's not an easy one. I'll take a look at what it takes to do that and follow up.
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  kortina

  4 months ago

  Awesome--I was playing with building something like this, but now I don't have to!
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  kortina

  4 months ago

  2 things I would love to see: (1) popout player (2) javascript bookmarklet that launches the popout player on anyone's tumblog, regardless of whether or not they have your snippet installed.
  
  Listening to orangesunshine right now. Thanks for building this, Dan!
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  Dan Kantor

  4 months ago

  You hit the nail right on the head. Bookmarklet coming very soon. Popout player in the works.
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  kortina

  4 months ago

  Awesome, dude. Following you now on tumblr so I know when it happens.
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  Smaran

  4 months ago

  This is very cool. :)
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  ilkhom

  4 months ago

  Dan, it's cool and very useful. Thanks a lot. :)
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  hannes

  4 months ago

  Very cool. Thanks.
  
  But being able to open the player in a small "pop-up" window might also come in handy :)
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  Dan Kantor

  4 months ago

  I hear ya loud and clear
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  hannes

  4 months ago

  My bad... just read now in the comments that a popout player is apparently in the works :) Look forward to it...
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  fredwilson

  4 months ago

  sweet. i've added it to my blog. i love the footer placement!
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  mb

  4 months ago

  Simple. Perfect. Good work.
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  Andrew Meyer

  4 months ago

  Dan, this is top notch stuff. I was hoping that Tumblr would create something like this. Thanks for beating them to the punch. You just made Tumblelogs everywhere that much better. :)
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  mdoeff

  4 months ago

  This is great Dan. I've added it here: http://mdoeff.tumblr.com
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  aprilini

  4 months ago

  I really appreciate that there is a play count. Thank you so much sir!
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  Dan Kantor

  4 months ago

  Just released the bookmarklet version, you can grab it here - http://blog.dankantor.com/post/43296426/tumblr-...
  
  This will allow you to insert the player into an Tumblr blog that doesn't have it.
  
  Please leave comments here or there. It should work exactly the same but you know how these things work!
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  Iboong

  4 months ago

  Cool! I restyled it a bit, ok? ;)
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  Iboong

  4 months ago

  Dan. it conflicts with a FancyZoom script (which I also use).
  FancyZoom homepage: http://www.cabel.name/2008/02/fancyzoom-10.html
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  Dan Kantor

  4 months ago

  Thanks for the heads-up. I'll take a look.
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  Dan Kantor

  4 months ago

  I changed some things around. If you can let me know if it still conflicts, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!
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  Iboong

  4 months ago

  Now its OK! Thank You a lot!
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  Dan Kantor

  4 months ago

  Very glad to hear. Checked it out - I like that Sebastien Tellier song a lot.
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  Iboong

  4 months ago

  Just restyled a bit. Is it OK?
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  Dan Kantor

  4 months ago

  yeah looks good. The only thing I'll say is that by not linking to the original source, you may miss updates. Your choice of course!
  
  I'm going to add a way to change the default message soon. If that helps...
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  Iboong

  4 months ago

  Yes. Change log in this post would be great!
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  charmlessman

  4 months ago

  Hi, thanks for this, it is awesome.
  
  I reblogged your post and translated it to spanish so more people know how to use this. All credit goes to you of course, Thanks again!
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  Dan Kantor

  4 months ago

  Awesome! Thank you.
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  Jermbob

  4 months ago

  Love it! Thanks Dan!
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  Iboong

  4 months ago

  Hmm. I found a little bug: Clicking "powered by STREAMPAD" is the same as clicking "Click to play all audio posts".
  
  My OS: Ubuntu Linux 8.04 hardy Heron
  My browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ru; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071719 Firefox/3.0.1
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  Dan Kantor

  4 months ago

  I see that as well. Thanks for the find. Looks like I need to stop the click event.
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  Dan Kantor

  4 months ago

  Just uploaded a fix. Let me know if it still is broken. Thanks.
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  Iboong

  4 months ago

  Now its perfect! Thanks for quick feedback!
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  ghettoblaster_love

  4 months ago

  this is great! what a perfect way to implement your blog's soundtrack!
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  kashira

  4 months ago

  hi thanks
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  ana

  4 months ago

  thanks! awesome tumblr upgrade.
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  Dhrumil

  4 months ago

  This is sweet
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  djlovep

  4 months ago

  wow, this is awesome. thanks so much.
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  raydancer

  4 months ago

  This is pretty cool. Any chance that Streampad could be finessed into playing my muxtape on my tumblr page? (the whole of social media has just gone cross-eyed)
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  Dan Kantor

  4 months ago

  Great idea. I'll have a look at Muxtape and see if there is something that can be done. I know they don't have an API but the pages are XHTML so there is always that.
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  Dan Kantor

  4 months ago

  Added a post to document ways in which you could hack the player here - http://blog.dankantor.com/post/44220166/tumblr-...
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  Aaron Jamison

  4 months ago

  This is epic, thanks!
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  David Noël

  4 months ago

  Thanks Dan, that's awesome. Really like it. The counter is cool too...
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  John

  4 months ago

  Nice ap. Thanks.
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  LilyFu

  4 months ago

  This is amazing - Thanks!
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  krishanu

  3 months ago

  Thanks Dan! :)
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  zenpop

  3 months ago

  This is really awesome. Thank you.
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  Audrey Koh

  3 months ago

  This is very good MP3 player, Dan! Good job! I know I'mm enjoy this! :D
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  Zuffox

  3 months ago

  Amazing. Anything that can accommodate my laziness is always welcomed. Playing Tuneage songs track by track wasn't really a viable concept.
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  TaiwanBrown

  3 months ago

  great hack!!!!!!!!!
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  livejamie

  3 months ago

  Is there a way I can have it appear when a user clicks on a link?
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  Dan Kantor

  3 months ago

  At this point there is no way to do this. Will see what I can do though...
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  livejamie

  3 months ago

  I'd appreciate it. Something at the footer that I can put "Click here to play all audio posts" and then it opens up the bar.
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  Dan Kantor

  3 months ago

  Ah, I didn't realize that's what you meant. Sorry. You can do that today. You need to dynamically create a script tag in javascript. I'll email you instructions how to do this since Disqus will strip out the code here.
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  livejamie

  3 months ago

  Thanks Dan!
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  ryangraves

  3 months ago

  Dan- how can I get this to work on a wordpress blog? Will this code only work on Tumblr?
  Thanks.
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  Dan Kantor

  3 months ago

  This will currently only work on Tumblr. I am working on some other platforms though.
  
  You can set up a tumblr blog, post audio to it, then pull those posts into your Wordpress blog if you want today.
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  ryangraves

  3 months ago

  Dan - is that how Fred Wilson does it currently? I really like the
  footer at the bottom of the page on his blog.
  
  Thanks for the help!
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  Dan Kantor

  3 months ago

  Yeah, that's how he does it. Have a look at this page for instructions to set it up - http://blog.dankantor.com/post/44220166/tumblr-...
  
  Basically, you include the javascript and point it to your tumblr blog like - .js?api=[your blog url]
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  luka

  3 months ago

  Perfect. Thanks!
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  karmicunderpath

  2 months ago

  For some reason it works on other peoples Tumblrs but not on mine :(
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  Dan Kantor

  2 months ago

  Can you post your blog url? thanks
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  karmicunderpath

  2 months ago

  sure! http://karmicunderpath.tumblr.com I dont have it enabled at the moment as it doesn't work. I cant even get Mumblr to work, (Muxtape-tumblr mashup thing). :(
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  Tumbledore

  2 months ago

  Have the recent changes to Tumblr "broken" this awesome tool? The songs still play, but the playcount is off and the text now reads "#/undefined" before each track (at least on mine).
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  Dan Kantor

  2 months ago

  Thanks for pointing this out. I will look into it.