Flash MP3 Player "Most Played" list?

Question

Hello, all,

I hope this is the right forum for this. I have built a
Flash-based MP3 player for a client that gets song information from
an XML file. It works fine. No problems there.

However, now that my client's work has expanded, he would
like to have an automatically updating "most played" list displayed
on the main page of his site. I have done a bunch of reading and
research the last couple of days, and I am guessing (since I am
pretty new to Flash) that it is possible to write the ActionScript
so that it can track the number of plays and send the data to
somewhere to be displayed on an HTML page inside a CSS div. Am I
right about that? (Question 1)

(Question 2): Assuming that it 
is possible to extract the data of the ten most played songs
from this Flash MP3 player, how, exactly, would I go about it?

(Question 3): Assuming that it is possible to get the data
from the Flash player, where, exactly would the data be sent? Can
it be sent directly to the CSS div? A JavaScript? Another XML file?
If any or all of these are possible, how do I do it?

I really appreciate any help you can give me. I can give more
information if needed (not sure, right now, what anyone would
need). I've been looking for a solution to this problem for four
days, and I really need some help.

Thanks so much!
Charity

Anonymous · Answer

you will need the help of any server side programming script to do what you are looking for. It could be php, asp .net ( I think javascript can do it too). The reason for that is because flash can only recieve data but can not write data without a help of another program.

so this is the idea:
you will need to keep a hit counter for every song that in your xml. you can add an attribute "hitsCounter" to each xml node that get increased each time the song play. the procedure will be
1. song X got play
2. flash send a unique variable to a server side script that indicate which play got played ( could be songID or song name). you will send this variable from flash with sendAndLoad command
3. in the server side page you read this variable and increase th e hitsCounter of X song.

This is how you keep track of your counters. now, everytime your HTML page load you'll need to access the xml with server side script read all the counters and display a list of the most popular songs where the highest "hitsCounter" will be first of the list.

I hope this helps

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