Comments on: The sad and silent death of Yahoo’s EasyListener

By: Edie2k2

Edie2k2 — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:25:59 +0000

Is anybody ever coming back???

By: Edie2k2

Edie2k2 — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:04:03 +0000

ITauthor: In the new code that I left you above--I found that it would not work with the url that you have in it--but it will work with this one: http://feeds.feedburner.com/itauthor William: The easylistener generator will not update the variables, it keeps defaulting to webjay in the generator box...

By: Edie2k2

Edie2k2 — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:43:05 +0000

There is an easier way.....What You Have At Present:
=http://www.itauthor.com/category/podcasts/feed&playthispage_url=http://musiclibre.org/playthispage/?url=&rounded_corner=1&skin_color_1=0,-100,-29,18&skin_color_2=0,-100,-27,20" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" width="170" height="200">

What I Figured Out: (It was GRUELING!) :=) :
=http://www.itauthor.com/category/podcasts/feed&rounded_corner=1&autoplay=1&skin_color_1=0,0,0,0&skin_color_2=0,0,0,0&bg_color_1=transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"

By: Edie2k2

Edie2k2 — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:39:28 +0000

Hi Everybody...I am in the true twilight zone. I tried the above and nothing. The dial still spins around and no playlist populates. :=(

Yay! I got it!!!! Thank you William for musiclibre!!!! You are my true hero!!!!!!

By: Edie2k2

Edie2k2 — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:37:00 +0000

In case anyone is following the thread still--I had a breakthrough after much toil, trial, and error. I applaud William White! I LOVE him for saving us!!!! itauthor: I have the code that will make your players work. I FINALLY figured it out! Contact me at: des_toni@yahoo.com for details.

Edie

By: Edie2k2

Edie2k2 — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:54:18 +0000

Hi Everybody...I am in the true twilight zone. I tried the above and nothing. The dial still spins around and no playlist populates. :=(

HELP!

Edie

By: itauthor

itauthor — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:14:00 +0000

Thanks to William White - one of the guys who created EasyListener at the Yahoo! Media Innovation Group - who helped resurrect EasyListener again. To get it working again I added playthispage_url =http://musiclibre.org/playthispage/?url= to the flashVars attribute within the embed element. So my embed element now looks like this (note: the flashVars value should be one long string, without spaces or line breaks):

By: William

William — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:14:00 +0000

Hey guys, Thanks to Alistair for alerting me there were more issues.... @edie2k2 - I've created a page: http://musiclibre.org/easylistener/ which you can use to select the colour configuration you'd like for EasyListener. Swap in the URL http://musiclibre.org/xspf_player instead of webjay.org/flash/xspf_player and it should work for you... Eg: http://musiclibre.org/easylistener/test.html

By: edie2k2

edie2k2 — Mon, 24 May 2010 05:18:37 +0000

How glad I was to see your reply. I kept checking periodically. Thank you for helping me to appreciate that I haven't lost my mind. I am saddened that such a priceless nugget has been allowed to die--again.
Is there anyone to your knowledge that has a similar player capability?

Edie

By: itauthor

itauthor — Sun, 23 May 2010 15:55:19 +0000

EasyListener seems to have died again. It's a pity Yahoo weren't prepared to support this. That's the trouble with big companies: they're so busy looking for the big money they don't look after the little nuggets of gold they already have.

By: edie2k2

edie2k2 — Sun, 02 May 2010 18:01:45 +0000

Hi..sorry it took me so long to get back. As of yesterday my players won't work..the little dial just spins around and the playlist is absent. I'm not sure if it's on my end or what. Previously I wanted to ask if there was a way to change the color of the player.

Thanks!

Edie

By: Alistair

Alistair — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:10:17 +0000

what's up?

By: Edie

Edie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:01:02 +0000

Are you here? If so I have a question.

By: kcortez

kcortez — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:51:31 +0000

Sweet, thanks for this. One thing, I can't get the skin colors to continue working - my code looks like this: this used to be a black background with greyish letters and now it seems like it's the default blue?

By: Sucrepop

Sucrepop — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:44:28 +0000

Thanks a lot for allows us to put back that wonderful piece of soft back on line. definitively one of the best player i've used

By: William White

William White — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:09:49 +0000

Hey guys,
I'm the original developer of EasyListener and appreciate your sentiments. It was indeed a sad occasion when Yahoo! finally pulled the plug on the webjay.org server this summer. I apologize for any inconvenience anyone may have encountered.
@Paul - the actual SWF needs to be hosted on Yahoo! servers so it has access to call the Yahoo! Play This Page service. (A crossdomain.xml file on the Yahoo! server only permits access from other Yahoo! servers)
I believe the webjay.org server has been shut down for good, but as you have seen, the player itself has always been served off Yahoo!'s edge hosting service.
These files will be here permanently. So you can create your own redirects like I've done here:
http://musiclibre.org/xspf_player/?playlist_url=http://www.aurgasm.us&rounded_corner=1
Or update your embed codes to use the yimg.com server URL, (like you've done on the itauthor.co website).
Thanks for the memories.
William

By: Alistair

Alistair — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:52:17 +0000

EasyListener has been repaired and has reappeared on my Web site.

The code I use in my side panel is:

The embedded player:

http://webjay.org/flash/xspf_player

now redirects to:

http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mig/playlistbadge/25.swf?referer=

which is where Yahoo moved the player.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:28:13 +0000

I also was horrified. Easylistener had all the features i needed.
I still have a downloaded version of the easylistener code.
Unfortunately when I run that downloaded version It gives the error code "will only run from a Yahoo server". Could someone fix that problem ?

Alternatively this player with multiple skins could do the job:

http://blog.lacymorrow.com/projects/xspf-jukebox/?t=WinampSmall
http://blog.lacymorrow.com/projects/xspf-jukebox/?t=mp3music

The XSPF format of the playlists is slightly different from the easylistener.
I found a lot of information here : http://xspf.org/applications/
but still could not find a good substitute for the easylistener

please help !

By: Alistair

Alistair — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:25:43 +0000

Yeh, it's very strange for a company to produce something that did what it did better than anything else currently out there, looked good, and was being used by lots of folks on lots of site - and then just pull the plug on it. This is one of the problem with huge companies: sometimes they don't look after their own assets. No doubt somebody will resurrect it under another guise eventually.

Like Ed said: if anyone hears of something that does the same thing as nicely as Easylistener used to, please let me know.

By: Ed Shakes

Ed Shakes — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:00:58 +0000

I am absoultely gutted about this. My players have just gone. I haven't found any replacement either. It was such a cool player. Shout me if you find anything that can replace it
Sad day
Ed

By: edie2k2

edie2k2 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:02:37 +0000

I have used Easylistener extensively myself and was horrified to wake up today and see that all of my players are gone--dead.

Tragic!!!

~e