Hi all,

At long last, version 2 of the Yahoo! Media Player has been released
to the official player location at mediaplayer.yahoo.com/js

Now, adding the following code to your site will give you the new and
improved version of the player:

<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/js"></script>

All the features described when we first announced version 2 are now
available to all users of the player. Here's a recap of the new features:

* Smaller code footprint
* Faster load time
* Easier way to specify metadata for tracks
* A way to continue the playback experience, when navigating to
other pages
* Asynchronous retrieval of playlist contents
* Support for additional media formats, including WMA, WAV, M4A
(more on the way)
* Support for multiple playlist formats, including XSPF, M3U, ASX
* Display of playlists as "nested" inside the main page's playlist
* Improved ease of customization, including a choice between using
custom CSS colors or full image skinning
* The option by the page author to prevent playback from
automatically advancing to the next track
* The "Buy" button will no longer appear unless either the page
author specifies an Amazon affiliate ID
* Playback support for Rhapsody track links (links that look like
this will be detected by the player and a play button will be inserted
just like any other mp3 link:
http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.21495415

To those of you who helped test version 2 out on your sites, thank
you. I also want to give a big thanks to the team who built version 2
of the player: Amit, William, Suman, Mike D, Lino, Douglas and Lucas.

We'll be adding more documentation about v2 to the public wikia over
time. In the meantime, please post any questions, concerns, comments
to this group and we'll do our best to respond.

Thanks
--Dave

--- In yhoomediaplayer@yahoogroups.com, "djwarmer" <warmer@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Within the next couple of weeks, we're planning on moving version 2 of
> the Yahoo! Media Player to the main player URL at
> mediaplayer.yahoo.com/js. I wanted to send this follow up post to
> encourage you to test out the new player so we can iron out any bugs
> you might find before updating everyone to v2. If you're seeing any
> bugs, or have questions about any changes, post a note to this group
> and we'll look into it.
>
> To test it out, add this to your test page:
>
> <script type="text/javascript"
> src="http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/latest"></script>
>
> In addition to all the great new stuff in version 2 that Mike
> mentioned, there's another new feature in this version that we spent a
> bit of time working on over the past couple months. We've been
> working closely with our pals at Rhapsody to allow Y! Media Player
> users the ability to play Rhapsody tracks through our player. Just
> add Rhapsody track links to your site and our player will do the rest.
>
> When you use these links, your users will get to listen to full length
> tracks without having to sign in or download anything. Users get 25
> free streams from Rhapsody every 30 days and samples if they run out
> of free full length tracks. I let my friend Mick have a sneak
> preview, and his latest blog entry is a good example of this new
> functionality in action:
>
http://redfishingboat.com/2008/07/steely-dan-steely-damn-is-more-like-it/
>
> To grab Rhapsody track URLs, just go to Rhapsody.com, find the track
> you want and copy the link location. Then paste those links into your
> page. Here's an example of what the Rhapsody track links look like:
> http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.21495415
>
> Again, we're in test mode, so please let us know if you come across
> any bugs.
>
> That's it for now. Sorry it's been somewhat quiet in this group
> lately, but as you can see, we were busy adding a lot of cool (we
> think) new stuff to version 2. More to come!
>
> Thanks
> --Dave
>
>
> --- In yhoomediaplayer@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Davis" <miked@> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> >
> >
> > We have been working very hard for the last couple of months on
> > rewriting the Yahoo! Media Player from the ground up. And now, the
> > fruits of our labor are finally ready to be unveiled. Version 2.0
> > (build 2.0.14, to be precise) is now available on the "test" URL:
> > http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/latest. We invite you to try it out, and
> > help us find any bugs that may still be lurking in there, so that
we can
> > polish it up and release it on the main URL
> > http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/js in the next few weeks.
> >
> >
> >
> > Here are some of the key improvements we have made over version 1.x:
> >
> >
> >
> > * Smaller code footprint
> >
> > * Faster load time
> >
> > * Easier way to specify metadata for tracks
> >
> > * A way to continue the playback experience, when
navigating to
> > other pages
> >
> > * Asynchronous retrieval of playlist contents
> >
> > * Support for additional media formats, including WMA,
WAV, M4A
> > (more on the way)
> >
> > * Support for multiple playlist formats, including XSPF, M3U,
> > ASX
> >
> > * Display of playlists as "nested" inside the main page's
> > playlist
> >
> > * Improved ease of customization, including a choice between
> > using custom CSS colors or full image skinning
> >
> > * The option by the page author to prevent playback from
> > automatically advancing to the next track
> >
> > * The "Buy" button will no longer appear unless either the
page
> > author specifies an Amazon affiliate ID
> >
> >
> >
> > We will be adding documentation on how to get the most out of
these new
> > features over the next week or two, on the public wikia site:
> > http://yahoomediaplayer.wikia.com/wiki/Yahoo_Media_Player_Wiki.
> >
> >
> >
> > There are more features in the works. We hope you will enjoy these.
> >
> > Please give us your feedback by posting to this group!
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > -Mike Davis
> >
> > Yahoo! Media Player Engineering Lead
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>