Music Page Uses SoundManager & Smartlook

Tonight I’ve been hard at work on a new music page. The new site utilizes two really cool javascript libraries which are brand spankin’ new.

One is called SoundManger (which has just released a much anticipated version 2), and the other is called Smartlook (from the guys over at ISSUU).

SoundManager is a javascript library which makes playing sounds on a web page really easy. I used it on my new site to turn a simple list of mp3 files into a cool-looking audio playlist.

Smartlook is a javascript library which works in conjunction with an ISSUU account. ISSUU is a great site for publishing your documents (.pdf,.doc,.xls,.ppt,etc.) online. It features a really clean flash player and uses top-notch document conversion tools. Smartlook is their newest service. After generating a key based on your ISSUU account id (you can do this by logging into ISSUU and going here) and including the smartlook.js library in you website, all of your .pdfs, .docs, .ppts, and other supported documents that your website links to become links to the issuu flash document viewer for that document.

Basically, the code allows you to skip the step of having to upload your documents to ISSUU before you embed them in your page. Smartlook automatically uploads your documents to ISSUU using you account, and redirects all of your links to documents automatically. It’s pretty sweet. Check out how I used it to display pdfs of musical scores I published here.

Tags: api, issuu, javascript, Music, smartlook, soundmanager, website

This entry was posted on Friday, January 9th, 2009 under these categories: Music, Personal, Web Development.
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