Easy YouTube - Video Lightbox Stack for RapidWeaver

Version 2.0.1 14-May–2012

Changes in this release

• included PlayList support
• the interesting user channel IDs beginning with UC now supported (previously only real names were supported e.g bbcworldwide )
• tidy up of some css/code

Getting an update

Customers can get their download via our Self Service download link. Instructions are available at the SymfoniP Order Look Up Page - Help Article

The team at SymfoniP love media in all its various facets and we have covered just about all possible variations of Audio plugins for RapidWeaver for over three years ever since the first release of the Stacks Plugin from Yourhead. Something that has not really been tackled has been integrating streaming radio stations to your RapidWeaver powered web site until now.

RadioBox our latest Stack element aims to address this with a simple clean HTML5 (Flash were required) Player and integrated ‘channel’ list for your ShoutCast Radio streams.

If you are building or managing a site for your local or community radio station and they have already have a ShoutCast mp3 stream already setup then you can use this new Stack to manage - ‘channels’ via a dynamic Google Spreadsheet list, effectively a ShoutCast stream! - Artwork for each ‘channel’ - Native MP3 HTML5 Audio (kind to your iDevices) and automatic Flash Player playback

No coding experience is required to create the actual player itself and we have already provided a sample setup already built into the RadioBox Stack configuration . Sample channels and information on what you need to do to create the channel/stream list for the player is covered in our User Guide.

Features:

• No PHP required
• integrated mp3 shoutcast stream player and ‘channel’ list
• manage a channel list in a Google Doc (spreadsheet), changes made in the document update the channel list. You can also share the document with other editors or your clients.
• Automatic HTML5 /Flash Playback
• support images in the player (can be for each channel/stream )
• playback support in Firefox, IE9, IE8, Safari, Chrome, IOS

Requirements

• A ShoutCast radio stream
• A public (that is published to the web) Google doc matching the format we describe in our User Guide for the channel list
• channel artwork is optional but can be anywhere public on your website or even in public Dropbox folder

Limitations

• only one RadioBox stack in a page for now
• no mixing in the same page with other MusicBoxes or our other Audio players
• will not display individual song information from what is currently in the stream

Demo Page

check out our live demo page to see the RadioBox in action with three Radio Stations

Support exceptions

Out-with standard support in resolving defects on actual code. Given the varied setup and time consuming nature of Shoutcast itself, this is why we include a sample setup already ! , if you need personal assistance in discovering your Shoutcast mp3 stream or wish support in getting the player working with your Shoutcast service provider you can purchase a suppport pack directly from our Support Site.

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

MusicBox is the first in a series of powerful new stack elements that allow you to create a powerful mp3 (HTML5) audio playlist with intgerated player controls.

The first two editions off the SymfoniP production line allow you to create a dynamic playlist and control that remotely from a Google Spreadsheet Document, or from a text list maintained on DropBox .

You can then share, have other collaborators or your clients editing, adding to the MusicBox playlist dynamically without touching your RapidWeaver project again. We like to think of these as Audio Stacks with some extra CMS enabled sauce.

MusicBox is perfect for providing audio portfolio samples whether you are a

• musician
• voice artist
• want to share audio with other visitors to your site, a podcast list for example
• building a band web site

Key Features

• create an audio player with playlist without any coding know-how
• no more republishing of audio files (yes it can be a pain) in your RapidWeaver project , saving you time in publishing and editing
• playlist file generation is dynamic
• enable downloads of an audio track ( optional per track configuration , see relevant User Guide for the Gdoc or drop(box)list editions)
• Plays great on iPad in HTML5 mode and even supports Flash playback for those browsers that do not play nice with HTML5. This is all automatic in MusicBox!
• Color configuration for background and track text elements in a single MusicBox stack
• multiple MusicBoxes are supported in the same Stacks page as shown in our demo site

Requirements

• PHP 5.x server support
• Stacks Plugin Supported Versions 1.4.x or 2.x
• Audio tracks already encoded as mp3, 128Kbs fixed rate provides the best results , remember this is the web we are talking about
• playlist configuration file needs to be publicly accessible for MusicBox to access it
• of course a Google Spreadsheet … we talk about that setup in our User Guide too. A public DropBox text file, or even a public file that is maintained on your web server.

Demo

Check out our live demo page with both the drop(box)List and Gdoc MusicBox editions both active on the same page.

Bundle Pricing

Buy both editions and save 3 Euros.

Today we have released a small update to WordPress Page Extractor now at Version 1.0.2 

Wordpress Posts Extractor

Version 1.0.2 23-Apr–2012

Changes in this release

• rewrite of extraction code
• new url to purge the cache files on an extractor stack page http://mysite.com/?killcache=

Getting an update

If you do not want to wait for the 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

FlowBox RapidWeaver Stack

Version 3.1.0 19-Apr–2012

• YouTube in IOS fixes

Getting an update

Customers can get their download via our Self Service download link. Instructions are available at the SymfoniP Order Look Up Page - Help Article

How our new Rapidweaver Stacks grow up fast :) and today we have a small update to WordPress Page Extractor.

Wordpress Post/Page Extractor

Version 1.0.1

Changes in this release

• option to hide initial title in page/post from WordPress extraction

Getting an update

If you do not want to wait for the 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

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

If you are like me and you wanted to have the content from your WordPress posts and pages inside RapidWeaver but were put off by a messy integration job with Themes. Then , you will find this new Stack released from SymfoniP very useful

WordPress Page Extractor

WordPress Extractor

What does it do?

Simply, this new stack element will retrieve the raw HTML code generated inside your WordPress Post or Page (it is all the same to us ) and then have this displayed in your preferred RapidWeaver web site. A powerful connector for WordPress CMS to RapidWeaver without the usual pain involved in ‘hacking ’ a beautiful RapidWeaver Theme to fit.

You have a link to an image or a video file or you even added an iframe link to YouTube or Vimeo this data is all preserved when it is dynamically transferred to your Stacks Page.

All post editing is made in the WordPress post giving you or your clients remote editing functionality , saving you time re-publishing your RapidWeaver project whenever there are changes to be made.

You can also mix and match additional stack elements in your RapidWeaver Stacks page if you so wish to have something that will remain static :)

Additional Bonus Features

In other words you do not need extra ‘Stacks’ to do this !

• Large Fluid (Responsive images) when adding the ‘large image type’ from the WordPress media library
• Responsive YouTube, Vimeo, Blip.tv Video iframes
• caching of WordPress post data to ensure your pages are not making any redundant requests

Demo Page

• Our WordPress Test Site that we started with - http://wp.symfonip.com
• Now the RapidWeaver Page with WP Page Extractor http://symfonip.com/sympreview/stacks/wpextract.php

What it does not do!

• Will not use(inherit) plugins or widgets, WordPress shortcodes in your WordPress page . All effects are managed within your RapidWeaver Stacks page
• Retrieve Blog Posts a separate Stack element will be available soon to address Blogging post elements. Although WP-Blog plugin already does a great job in that area.

Requirements

• WordPress 3.3.x (3.4 beta is also supported) Self Hosted wordpress installations only not WordPress.com blogs)
• PHP 5.x
• Access to the WordPress Dashboard (at a minimum ‘Editor’ level, if it is your WordPress installation then we do not advise using the ‘admin’ username and passwords, we talk about this setup in our User Guide)
• Stacks Plugin (from YourHead.com 1.4.x or higher

Special Offer

Till Wednesday 18th April midnight UK time, use the following discount code at checkout wordpress and get 3 Euros off this powerful new Stack element

Do you use Camera + app on your iPhone ?
Wanted an easy way to publish your images to RapidWeaver that you take on the road dynamically with Camera + ?

We love the awesome iPhone application Camera+  developed by taptaptap, so it got us thinking ‘would it not be cool to have a gallery slider that would take the latest images from your Camera + profile when you have taken them with your iPhone?’  Well , today I am pleased to announce the first (in a series) of stack add-ons for Rapidweaver that does just that simply.

Setup is super fast, just like taking pictures with Camera+

• Add your Twitter username
• Preview
• Publish