About this plugin
Speak Sound Library allows tight management and presentation of a music library. Users can import mp3’s into the system with an individual uploader or by recursively scanning a folder uploaded via ftp. Once scanned, the ID3 information is extracted out of the mp3 files and used to create a SQL entry.
The resulting ‘posts’ are then organized and filterable by artist, genre, album, etc. Users can also attach additional meta-data, such as a youtube link to each song. This song data can be presented on the front-end using our plugin’s short code methods, which returns PHP objects, or using an ajax hook, which returns formatted JSON data.
com/music.
Wiring up a Frontend Player
This plugin is merely a backend management system and can be extended using any type of front-end player. You can either use PHP hooks to prepare html, or use a jQuery ajax method, which returns sound data formatted in JSON.
This method will return a JSON string of all of the sounds in your library:
var data = {
action: ‘get_songs’
};
log(response); });
You can also filter by genre, album or artist (mutually exclusive), like this:
var data = {
action: ‘get_songs’,
albumFilter: ‘Dark Side of the Moon’,
artistFilter: ‘Pink Floyd’,
genreFilter: ‘Rock’
};
log(response); });
Using PHP, you can retrieve sounds the same as you would any other post, just add ‘post_type’ => ‘sounds’ to your get_posts() query.
Enjoy 🙂