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Tempo (AS3) – Small Efficient Media Player

Download Now (2.0.1)

What’s New

• Now extends TempoLite – Previously Tempo and TempoLite shared the same core classes but not through extending. With the overhaul, Tempo now extends directly from TempoLite, simplifying integration.
• Removed PureMVC and restructured – I was searching for a way to get TempoLite even smaller than it already was. In the end, I nixed PureMVC and realized I didn’t miss it (at least for this project). With TempoLite losing PureMVC, I had to take that change to Tempo. With that and a LOT of restructuring I managed to cut file size by about 7Kb!
• Dropped compiled size by 7Kb (32Kb -> 25Kb)
• Fixed video scaling issue on initial play – This was an issue I noticed after converting to TempoLite 2.0.0, where the video would play unscaled, then repeat scaled.

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:

• AFComponents Embeddable FLV Player : 120kb
• Wimpy RAVE 2.0.7 : 109kb (Not Free)
• Wimpy MP3 6.0.15 : 64kb (Not Free)
• YouTube Player : 76kb
• JW Media Player 4.1 : 40kb
• Flowplayer 2.2.4 : 120kb
• TSVideo 1.0 : 115kb (Not free)
• MC Classic Media Player : 120kb
• MC Altair 0.8 : 33kb (Single file, no playlist)
• Tempo : 25kb

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.

• flv
• mp4
• m4v
• 3gp
• mov
• f4v
• f4p
• f4b

Support Audio Formats

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

• m4a
• f4a
• mp3

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.

• ASX
  • <title> = Title
  • <ref> or <base> = URL
  • <duration> = Length
  • Example
• XSPF
  • <title> = Title
  • <location> = URL
  • <duration> = Length
  • Example
• M3U
  • Example
• PLS