Comments on: 100% in-page navigation for music sites

By: tolga

tolga — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:26:24 +0000

hi there,

try soundklan.com also, it is %100 in-page radio.. i was the front-end developer of that site :)

By: zaurion

zaurion — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:36:25 +0000

Hi, Im doing a website (html) using dream weaver cs3 and I need to add a song to the site that can keep playing while browsing through the site. Were can I get Ajax? Were can I get more information on how can I install it using dream weaver?

By: Lucas Gonze

Lucas Gonze — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:56:59 +0000

Sure. I know what you mean. But I’m not convinced that that’s more annoying than having a confirmation pop up every time closing the window is what you intend.

By: bs

bs — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:53:34 +0000

I just know that I’ve accidentally closed the window that my player is in more than once and it was annoying. Maybe it’s just me.

By: Lucas Gonze

Lucas Gonze — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:46:30 +0000

About the ability to link to the song, these sites should always have that. You can do it with ajax.

Not sure what I think of warning the user that they’re going to stop the music. I think it’s more important for their to be an affordance that there’s music playing, like a big pause button, so they know before closing the window that the music will go away. An interruption would create work that could be avoided.

By: bs

bs — Sun, 10 May 2009 01:54:57 +0000

If you can’t send a page to someone and say “hey, listen to this song” that’s not helpful. It also doesn’t solve the problem of the music stopping when you close your browser tab. Even a warning (blogtalkradio does this) telling you “hey, you’re listening to something, are you sure you want to do that?” would help. But generally no one does that.

By: Anthony V

Anthony V — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:26:13 +0000

Whoa, that IS such a Beatport ripoff, can’t believe people do this.

For the record, on the Hype Machine, the URLs in the location bar are functional when you use the ajax-ified version of the site. It’s only active anyway, when you are logged in.

By: gurdonark

gurdonark — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:32:22 +0000

These sorts of choices about one page/more pages/flash player/media player are a bit like the story of tantalus. all this great feast of user interface experience is out there, but it still hovers just out of reach.

By: Lucas Gonze

Lucas Gonze — Fri, 01 May 2009 06:59:35 +0000

Len, what’s cool to me here is that the best of these sites are not as opaque as a Flash site. You can still right click + save as, for example.

By: Lucas Gonze

Lucas Gonze — Fri, 01 May 2009 06:57:48 +0000

EH, it’s possible to do bookmarking if the site uses something like the Really Simple History library. Sites that are heavily flash based rarely do that, though.