From: CD Baby <cdbaby@...>
Date: 2005-03-22T06:00:11+09:00
Subject: Re: converting MP3 to SWF using Ruby - my company will pay

[WARNING: HAS GONE MOSTLY OFF-TOPIC FROM RUBY]

Well hotdamn!    Look at that.  (See - I don't know crap about Flash.)
 And yes you're right I'd MUCH rather load the MP3 dynamically because
we're talking about over 800,000 songs.   It would save me a terabyte
of storage to not have to convert & store.  I thought that was the
only way.

Ok I'll go do a little ActionScript research on
http://safari.oreilly.com and come back here if I can find another
excuse to pay a Ruby programmer.  :-)  (Always looking for reasons...)

Thanks very much for the info.

- Derek



On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 03:14:19 +0900, Cristi BALAN <mental@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:18:33 +0900, CD Baby <cdbaby@gmail.com> wrote:
> > My company needs an ongoing simple script to convert MP3 files to SWF
> > (Flash) files
> >
> > Someone has done exactly what we need, here:
> > http://www.swfx.org/swfmp3/index.jsp
> > ... but it's in Java, and I don't feel like installing Java on all of
> > our servers, just for this one simple use.
> >
> > Though I know Ruby, I don't know SWF format, so if anyone else here
> > does, I would gladly pay for your time to write a simple tool that
> > could do this.   We could even make it BSD license and put it up at
> > RubyForge so the world can use and improve it, too.
> >
> > Please email me directly at cdbaby@gmail.com if interested.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --
> > Derek Sivers, CD Baby
> >
> >
> 
> Are you sure you want to convert your mp3's to swf? I think it would
> be easier just to make a nice swf that can be fed the url to the mp3
> as a parameter. I don't do actionscript, but i have seen this done
> with other flash movies, avis and images so, i suppose it will work
> for mp3 too...
> Googling for "flash load mp3 files at runtime" brings this link on the
> second position:
> http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/productinfo/features/mx/03rich_media_support.html
> 
> Sending parameters to flash files can be done the same way you send
> get parameters to a serverside script:
> foo.swf?mp3=bar/baz.mp3
> 
> If you need to change the mp3 file path at runtime, the mp3 variable
> can be changed using javascript, but browser support might not be
> perfect, tho i think at least moz, ie and opera can do it.
> 
> If on the other hand you want to provide the swf's as downloads,
> ignore what i just said :) ... seems you really need to embed them in
> the swf then.
> 
> HTH
> 
> --
> Cristi BALAN
> 
> ps: where do i send the invoice? >:)
> 
>