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converting MP3 to SWF using Ruby - my company will pay

CD Baby

3/21/2005 5:19:00 PM

My company needs an ongoing simple script to convert MP3 files to SWF
(Flash) files

Someone has done exactly what we need, here:
http://www.swfx.org/swfmp3...
... but it's in Java, and I don't feel like installing Java on all of
our servers, just for this one simple use.

Though I know Ruby, I don't know SWF format, so if anyone else here
does, I would gladly pay for your time to write a simple tool that
could do this. We could even make it BSD license and put it up at
RubyForge so the world can use and improve it, too.

Please email me directly at cdbaby@gmail.com if interested.

Thanks!

--
Derek Sivers, CD Baby
2 Answers

Cristi Balan

3/21/2005 6:14:00 PM

0

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:18:33 +0900, CD Baby <cdbaby@gmail.com> wrote:
> My company needs an ongoing simple script to convert MP3 files to SWF
> (Flash) files
>
> Someone has done exactly what we need, here:
> http://www.swfx.org/swfmp3...
> ... but it's in Java, and I don't feel like installing Java on all of
> our servers, just for this one simple use.
>
> Though I know Ruby, I don't know SWF format, so if anyone else here
> does, I would gladly pay for your time to write a simple tool that
> could do this. We could even make it BSD license and put it up at
> RubyForge so the world can use and improve it, too.
>
> Please email me directly at cdbaby@gmail.com if interested.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Derek Sivers, CD Baby
>
>

Are you sure you want to convert your mp3's to swf? I think it would
be easier just to make a nice swf that can be fed the url to the mp3
as a parameter. I don't do actionscript, but i have seen this done
with other flash movies, avis and images so, i suppose it will work
for mp3 too...
Googling for "flash load mp3 files at runtime" brings this link on the
second position:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/productinfo/features/mx/03rich_media_su...

Sending parameters to flash files can be done the same way you send
get parameters to a serverside script:
foo.swf?mp3=bar/baz.mp3

If you need to change the mp3 file path at runtime, the mp3 variable
can be changed using javascript, but browser support might not be
perfect, tho i think at least moz, ie and opera can do it.

If on the other hand you want to provide the swf's as downloads,
ignore what i just said :) ... seems you really need to embed them in
the swf then.

HTH

--
Cristi BALAN

ps: where do i send the invoice? >:)

CD Baby

3/21/2005 9:00:00 PM

0

[WARNING: HAS GONE MOSTLY OFF-TOPIC FROM RUBY]

Well hotdamn! Look at that. (See - I don't know crap about Flash.)
And yes you're right I'd MUCH rather load the MP3 dynamically because
we're talking about over 800,000 songs. It would save me a terabyte
of storage to not have to convert & store. I thought that was the
only way.

Ok I'll go do a little ActionScript research on
http://safari.o... and come back here if I can find another
excuse to pay a Ruby programmer. :-) (Always looking for reasons...)

Thanks very much for the info.

- Derek



On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 03:14:19 +0900, Cristi BALAN <mental@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:18:33 +0900, CD Baby <cdbaby@gmail.com> wrote:
> > My company needs an ongoing simple script to convert MP3 files to SWF
> > (Flash) files
> >
> > Someone has done exactly what we need, here:
> > http://www.swfx.org/swfmp3...
> > ... but it's in Java, and I don't feel like installing Java on all of
> > our servers, just for this one simple use.
> >
> > Though I know Ruby, I don't know SWF format, so if anyone else here
> > does, I would gladly pay for your time to write a simple tool that
> > could do this. We could even make it BSD license and put it up at
> > RubyForge so the world can use and improve it, too.
> >
> > Please email me directly at cdbaby@gmail.com if interested.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --
> > Derek Sivers, CD Baby
> >
> >
>
> Are you sure you want to convert your mp3's to swf? I think it would
> be easier just to make a nice swf that can be fed the url to the mp3
> as a parameter. I don't do actionscript, but i have seen this done
> with other flash movies, avis and images so, i suppose it will work
> for mp3 too...
> Googling for "flash load mp3 files at runtime" brings this link on the
> second position:
> http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/productinfo/features/mx/03rich_media_su...
>
> Sending parameters to flash files can be done the same way you send
> get parameters to a serverside script:
> foo.swf?mp3=bar/baz.mp3
>
> If you need to change the mp3 file path at runtime, the mp3 variable
> can be changed using javascript, but browser support might not be
> perfect, tho i think at least moz, ie and opera can do it.
>
> If on the other hand you want to provide the swf's as downloads,
> ignore what i just said :) ... seems you really need to embed them in
> the swf then.
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Cristi BALAN
>
> ps: where do i send the invoice? >:)
>
>