How to create a playlist?

[herois_varterral]

Here's my problem:

For an assignment, I was given the task to make a music library with working playlists. I've done everything except the playlist themselves.

How do I make a playlists that loops but doesn't autoplay?

Please reply immediately!

[pziecina · Accepted solution]

m3u requires a media player to work, and is not a standard web audio format, (mp3 or org is).

All an m3u file is is a simple text file format, that specifies the files to be played using the mp3 or org file format, using a supporting media player, for more info see -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U

You could create a custom player using html 5, see -

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1025941/AUD-HTML-Audio-Playlist

[herois_varterral]

I barely know what I'm doing here. I've been searching for tutorials and I've found that m3u one.

[pziecina]

The html5 custom player is the one you should be following.

Dreamweaver does expect the user to know how to work with html, css and to some degree of competance javascript. What you are atempting is a more complexed use of the html5 audio support, and as such will require a custom solution, such as that provided by the tutorial i linked to.

There is a new addition to html5, that does allow streaming as part of the specification, but unfortunatly it is not very well supported yet.

[herois_varterral]

Yes I've figured out that much. But, thank you so much. The tutorial you sent was helpful

[pziecina]

Try inserting the following into your html -

< audio src="yourplaylist.m3u" type="audio/mpeg" > < / audio >

Change the src to point to your file.

The problem with the above is that it will stop playing once the user leaves the page, and does not offer any control over the playlist, (making it a simple audio player).

Maybe something as simple as that is all that is being asked of you.

[herois_varterral]

Trust me, it isn't. Your last reply was really helpful though.

[pziecina]

I take it you tried that,

[Nancy OShea]

Wimpy Player will do what you need.  It's easy to deploy.

Wimpy Player - HTML5 audio player