FlexAmp
FlexAmp is an online mp3 Player that adds a social aspect to the music playback experience. As the user listens to the songs, the applications grabs images and videos tagged with the information set in the mp3 file. Currently FlexAmp integrates the following services:
- Box.net to store user’s songs
- Flickr images
- YouTube videos
- Amazon for artist-info, related-products and user-reviews
For those in a hurry, here are some quick screenshots of the application.
- Main interface
- Music visualization via Flex Charting Components
- Getting deeper into related media
- Getting more info via Amazon
- Browsing user’s history.
I am still trying to evolve FlexAmp so keep tuned as I roll out new features.
I was wondering if you were planning on sharing the source for this. Its a great idea and I’d like to see how you constructed it. I could donate some money if that would help.
Kevin,
). I am in the process of cleaning up the application. I will start putting elements of the app on my blog, kind of as mini-tutorials.
Thanks for the comment (and the offer
I have bigger plans for Flexamp so stay tuned.
Hi,
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Hi there,
I’m just trying to view your flex amp application but I’ve come up with an error in IE
TypeError: Error #1090: XML parser failure: element is malformed.
at arpit.services::BoxService/::parseBoxXML()
at arpit.services::BoxService/::onDirectoryData()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.net::URLLoader/flash.net:URLLoader::onComplete()
Maggie, thank you for bringing it to my attention. The error could be because of an unusual character in a songname or albumname. In any event I am hard at work on FlexAmp v2 so do make sure that you check that out.
Great player but i get this error:
Error: Unknown Property: ‘MediumImage’.
at mx.collections::ListCollectionView/http://www.adobe.com/2006/actionscript/flash/proxy::getProperty()
at arpit.services.amazon::AmazonService/::onAlbumArtLoaded()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at mx.rpc.http.mxml::HTTPService/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::dispatchRpcEvent()
at mx.rpc::AbstractInvoker/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::resultHandler()
at mx.rpc::Responder/result()
at mx.rpc::AsyncRequest/acknowledge()
at ::DirectHTTPMessageResponder/completeHandler()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.net::URLLoader/flash.net:URLLoader::onComplete()
FlexAmp seems very promising, I think. However there is one feature I directly felt was missing: being able to change the volume.
Other than that it’s really nice, maybe except for the page height. Also, you can’t see the full “Right-click on folders to manage files” text.
I enjoy your articles and the layout of your site. I will visit your blog again.
Hello.. Great job.. Really if possible you publish part of the source would be nice.. Flex is very new and mostly no one knows how to program it and not many people beleive in it yet.
If you live in Canada … i am ready to offer you a job to work on Music integration projects in Flash / Flex..
Great how you integrated charts with the Media component.
Just tried the demo and never got past the loading stage. I’m using firefox2.
Dont use the demo login…that seems busted. I am still working on V2 but got pulled on another project for a while. V2 out soon…..:)
nice post
I was also wondering if you were planning to show the source code. I am recently interested in plotting graph representation of a wav form when the music is played. Could you please tell us how did you do?
If you live in Canada … i am ready to offer you a job to work on Music integration projects in Flash / Flex..
i’ll wondering if u’ll share source code of this application with me, could u ?
hmm..actually last.fm is better for gettin’ artist-info)) or if mp3’s are official they always have ID3 info with album covers,lyrics etc.
and I agree with abhishek))
hello i would like to know if u can email me info about the fan. I am in tss training in the Michigan office. and I have to talk about it and how to navigate while inside. Although there is one problem, u have no information posted. Please reply.
Stumbled upon this and thought it was a pretty neat idea. However it doesn’t seem to work anymore. Is it still functional?
Doesnt anymore unfortunately. I havent looked at the code in over a year.
well it doesnt work for me either arpit. dont you think of an upgrade or so. I couldnt even log in demo mode. I reaaly was wondering what it looked like.