Tempo (AS3) – Small Efficient Media Player

Version 2.0.1, Updated October 06, 2008
  • Compatibility: Flash Player 9 and later (ActionScript 3.0)
  • File Size: About 25Kb
  • Change Log

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Description

Tempo is an online Flash-based music player, built to allow for a fully customizable interface. It is even capable of changing skins on the fly. Skinning is handled by making a simple SWF with movieclips with specific names. Tempo will look to see if the buttons exist, and if so, will assign actions to them. You can make a skin as simple as the Demo in minutes, or you can take the time to build one as unique as the Winamp skin. Tempo currently supports the following file types: flv, mp4, m4v, m4a, 3gp, mov, f4v, f4p, f4a, f4b, and mp3.

Competitors

This is a list of other known Flash media players currently out. While some media players may seem fancy or elaborate, Tempo's goal is to be small, efficient and configurable. Below is a list of comparable players with similar capabilities and file sizes:
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Playlists: | Skins: | Refresh Video Playlist | Refresh Main Playlist

Usage

Item Object

An item object is used for handling a single item. You pass an item object to add audio or video to the play list. When you try to retrieve audio or video from the play list, it is returned as an item object. Below is the format of an item object : 
{title: "My Song", length: "100", url: "mySong.mp3", extOverride: "m4a"}
If no title is passed, it will be set to "". If no length is passed, it will be set to -1. If extOverride isn't passed, Tempo will get that last three letters of the file name to guess the file format.

Support Video Formats

Below is a list of the supported video formats. This is basically a run down of the videos Flash can play.

Support Audio Formats

Below is a list of the supported audio formats, this is basically a run down of the sounds Flash can play.

Support Playlist Formats

You can pass the following playlist file types to Tempo. For each file type (if XML based) is a list of the corresponding tags as they relate to the Item Object described above.

Javascript API

Methods

 play()
Plays selected item in the playlist 
 playpause()
Toggles between play and pause 
 pause()
Pauses selected item in the playlist 
 stop()
Stops the selected item in the playlist 
 next()
Plays the next item in the playlist 
 prev()
Plays the previous item in the playlist 
 playItem(index:Number)
Plays specified item in the playlist 
 loadFile(item:Object, autoStart:Boolean = true)
Creates a playlist of a single item and load the item 
 loadSkin(url:String = "DefaultSkin.swf")
Loads a new skin 
 loadPlayList(url:String = "playlists/Tempo.m3u")
Loads a new playlist 
 addItem(item:Object, index:Number = undefined)
Adds an item to the playlist at the end, or at index specified 
 removetem(index:Number = undefined)
Removes an item from the playlist from the end, or at index specified 
 clearItems()
Clears the playlist 
 mute(b:Boolean)
Turns audio off or on

Properties

 setId : Number
		 getId : Number
A unique id for this specific player. Useful where more than one player is on the page (default "1") 
 setRepeat : Boolean
		 getRepeat : Boolean
Whether to loop the playlist (false) or a single item (true) (default false) 
 setShuffle : Boolean
		 getShuffle : Boolean
Whether to shuffle the playlist or not (default false) 
 setVolume : Number
		 getVolume : Number
A number from 0 to 1 determines volume (default 0.5) 
 setSeekPercent : Number
		 getSeekPercent : Number
Current play percentage through item 
 getItemData : Object
Returns current playlist item object 
 getItemIndex : Number
Returns current playlist item index 
 getLength : Number
Returns number of items in playlist 
 getLoadPercent : Number
Returns the load percentage 
 getTimeElapsed : Number
Returns current play time, in 00:00 format 
 getTimeRemaining : Number
Returns current remaining play time, in 00:00 format 
 getObjectID : String
Returns unique SWF object ID in the html

Events

 onPlay
Dispatched when item begins playing 
 onMetaData : Object
Dispatched when metadata for current item is retrieved.
Passes metadata as an object. 
 onPlayProgress : Object
Dispatches when play progress is updated.
[sourcecode language="as3"] {percent:currentPercent, elapsed:timeCurrent, remain:timeLeft, total:timeTotal}[/sourcecode]
percent : Current play percentage through item
elapsed : Current play time, in 00:00 format
remain : Current remaining play time, in 00:00 format
total : Total length of item, in 00:00 format
 onPlayComplete : Void
Dispatched when item has finished playing 
 onLoad : Object
Dispatched when a new item has begun to load.
[sourcecode language="as3"]{url:strURL, type:"audio", time:timeTotal}[/sourcecode]
url : URL of item loading
type : Either "audio" or "video"
time : Elapsed play time 
 onLoadProgress
Dispatches when load progress is updated.
[sourcecode language="as3"]{loaded:bytesLoaded, total:bytesTotal}[/sourcecode]
loaded : Current bytes loaded
total : Bytes to load 
 onVolume : Number
Dispatched when the volume has changed.
Passes the new volume setting. 
 onShuffle : Boolean
Dispatched when the shuffle setting has changed.
Pass the new shuffle setting. 
 onRepeat : Boolean
Dispatched when the repeat setting has changed.
Pass the new repeat setting.

Flashvars API

 autoStart : Boolean
Determines if the player will immediately play the first item (default true) 
 autoStartIndex : Number
The index of an item in the playlist to play if 'autoStart' is set to true (default 0) 
 bufferTime : Number
Seconds to pre-buffer before playing an item (default 1) 
 fileURL : String
The URL to an item to play, will create a playlist consisting on this single item 
 playerId : String
A unique id for this specific player. Useful where more than one player is on the page (default "1") 
 playlistURL : String
The URL of the playlist to load (default "playlists/Tempo.m3u") 
 repeat : Boolean
Whether to loop the playlist (false) or a single item (true) (default false) 
 shuffle : Boolean
Whether to shuffle the playlist or not (default false) 
 skinURL : String
The URL to the skin to load (default "DefaultSkin.swf") 
 volume : Number
A number from 0 to 1 determines volume (default 0.5)

Change Log

Tempo 2.0.1 for AS3 (October 06, 2008)

Tempo 1.1 for AS3 (September 19, 2008)

Tempo 1.0.3 for AS3 (June 26, 2008)

Tempo 1.0.2 for AS3 (unreleased)

Tempo 1.0.1 for AS3 (unreleased)

Tempo 1.0.0 for AS3 (unreleased)

Tempo 0.9.5 for AS3 (May 14, 2008)

Tempo 0.9.4 for AS3 (unreleased)

Tempo 0.9.3 for AS3 (unreleased)

Tempo 0.9.2 for AS3

Tempo 0.9.1 for AS3

Tempo 0.9.0 for AS3 (unreleased)

Tempo 0.8.0 for AS3 (unreleased)

Tempo 0.7.1 for AS3 (unreleased)

Tempo 0.7 for AS3 (unreleased)

Tempo 0.6 for AS3 (unreleased)

Tempo 0.5 for AS3 (unreleased)

Tempo by Gabriel Mariani