Rex Ping introduces MP3 player for realXtend
It always lifts spirits to listen to good music while building your virtual world. It is easy to play web based MP3-files using XSPF track lists.
Screenshot of the player in action.
Before we continue, let me introduce Rex Ping. He is the new realXtend based virtual superhero and from now on he will guide you through all the mini tutorials. He is on trial for now at CTN. Here are some pictures of him:
Rex has more muscle power than brains, but hey, virtual stuff can get heavy for a virtual guy.
Rex: “Hey, nice to meet you all. Jani, just go on and write the instructions. I have things to do, but I’ll come back for the screenshot…”.
Oh well, maybe I will get someone with more brains next time. But back to the MP3:
To get your music to play, do this:
- upload your music to web (I can webhost your small demos, ask jpirkola@gmail.com)
- make a xspf playlist and upload it to web (example xspf)
- get web musicplayer from http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net, upload swf file to web
- upload a new texture to realXtend server (get a blank server here) and apply it to a new prim
- edit texture properties, set it to refresh once per second
- set the mediaURL to point to musicplayer swf and set the other parameters as in the example below
You can take a look and take the files from http://www.cybertechnews.org/musicplayer/
The played music will be heard evenly, so it is not spatialized. It also plays in full volume and there is no way to affect that, except editing the mp3-files… The player can be embedded to a web page, and it is ideally used with webscreen.
See more about playing media in realXtend:
Browse the web together in realXtend
Show your slides in realXtend: The easy way
Watch YouTube videos from realXtend
Wouldn’t it make more sense to have it spatialized, when attached to a object? That way you could give objects their own soundtrack,noise,sounds.
It is possible to attach sounds to objects, and that way they get spatialized. I believe it is not possible to play mp3 playlists that way. When I have time, I will take a good look on how that works and write about it too. The use of the mp3 player as presented here was to be more like a general music service for the whole region.