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Taking a sprinkling of the same magic used in our other MusicBox stacks we now present MusicBox Store edition.

After the great reception of MusicBox we had been asked if we could make a playlist but, also allow for links back to your own Amazon or iTunes listed album pages. We took the opportunity to make a few changes along the way to make this all possible in this new Stack element that integrates a playlist, audio player and additional link buttons. However, the killer feature is that this is all controlled and managed from a simple Google Doc (spreadsheet) so you can make changes on the fly without a republish!

Perfect for displaying track samples whether you are a in a band, voice-artist or musician looking to showcase and promote and sell your audio.

No coding experience is required all you need to follow are these three easy steps that we cover in more detail with our User Guide.

• setup a simple list in a Google Docs to your media, artwork and store links
• Publish your Google document
• Add the MusicBox Store Stack element to your page with your document key

Features:

• No PHP required
• integrated mp3 player and playlist
• create a list in a Google Doc (spreadsheet), changes made in the document update the player track list. You can also share the document with other editors or your clients.
• support images in the player (can be for each track if you like)
• Add links to your Amazon, iTunes purchase page
• additional support for links to CartLoom digital products, a very nice shopping cart made by YabDab
• looks and plays great in Firefox, Safari, iPad and iPhone

Requirements

• A public (published) Google doc matching the format we describe in our User Guide
• MP3 tracks need to be public on the web, if it cannot be opened in a standalone browser window then the player will work correctly.

Limitations

• only one musicbox store-playlist stack in a page for now
• no mixing in the same page with other MusicBoxes

Our popular HTML5 Video Stack for RapidWeaver has undergone a few changes for Stacks2 in addition to some updates to the Flash Player. This update is free to our existing customers from the 2.0.6 release that’s right from last year (Feb 2011)

Version 2.0.7 10-Apr–2012
- Changes in this release
- Update of Flowplayer 3.2.9
- Small Change of lightbox overlay color when in use with html5 default controls (removed custom css requirement/hack)
- Aligned version numbers for symVideo5 packages
- Stacks 2 grouping
- change to preload option(as browsers seem to handle this better now) default to none or if selected “auto”

Updating
If you do not want to wait for the automatic Sparkle (Stacks Library update) Customers can get their download via our Self Service download link. Instructions are available at the SymfoniP Order Look Up Page – Help Article

If you want to learn more about symVideo5 HTML5/Flash Video Stack then feel free to drop by

We are pleased to announce that the symSound family of Audio Stacks after many many months of being in Flash mode :)  have been rewritten and now support : 

* iPad and iPhone playback, this is huge as the previous release was Flash based.
* MP3, AAC media types now playable across all browser formats

HTML 5 native Audio Playback is available for : Mobile Safari (iPhone, iPad). The other browsers that do not support this format will get automatic Flash playback.

If you have never used our Audio stacks before? We take an add once approach and all the magic is performed behind the scenes to generate the audio players. All you have to do is add links to audio files ( that audio can be in assets/resources or on your server), yes you can even have an audio player in the Sidebar with our Stacks too.

View Demo:
We have a short intro video showing you the 4 Stacks (Spin, Linear, FatDeck and the new PlayButton audio players) in action as well as individual demo page links all from the symSound Product Page

Our user guide covers all the various stack inspector options that are available to you in more detail

Special Bundle Offer:
All 4 Audio Stacks retail for €5.99 however until Dec 24th 2010 5pm UK time . You can pickup all 4 of these Audio Stacks for €15 (excl taxes that may be applicable to buyers in the EU) after that the bundle price will be increased.

Enjoy and Happy Holidays everyone.

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Following on from my previous post on using Miro Video Converter to convert your vidoe files in a snap. There is a new update now available with export settings for iPad and the new WebM format.

Taking a sample movie I had in Screenflow, that was 290MB lossless (1280x720 resolution and 1min 43 in duration). This resulted in an iPad formatted mp4 that was 14MB in size and a WebM movie that was 3MB , yes that’s right 3MB.

I should point out that the quality of the WebM; movie was good maybe not as sharp as the H.264 but at 3Mb who’s complaining. However the audio track was a little bit thin and ‘tinny’ probably due to the 64k encoding preset rate for the Vorbis audio track. Miro is updated regularly so I expect to see an improvement in the audio bit rate for WebM .

To get your movies encoded easily for HTML5 Video without going near the command line , easily and cheaply, Miro Video Converter is worth a look.

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