So the other day, I was playing around with an entirely different UI paradigm for my music site, and got pretty far along, and then I hit a snag.
I searched and scoured the slop-riddled Web and didn’t find answers to my questions.
After a while, that duck.ai link started tugging at my willpower...
In the first post in this series, I explained why I used PHP to generate the playlist of my new hand-crafted music site from a large-ish XML file, instead of doing it locally like I used to (damn you Chrome and Firefox for dropping XSLT support!)
Thing is, depending on the speed of your device and your internet connection, it takes a few short seconds for PHP to do it’s thing on the server, before sending the result in one go to your browser.
And this slight delay has been nagging at me since day one.
So, thanks to @limebar@mastodon.social and @scy@chaos.social who implemented this feature for TIBR and TIBtv, I discovered how to send metadata to the system media player when you play my music on my site (using the Media Session API).
What this means is that you can now see the title, artist and artwork in your system player when you play a song on sknob.fr/music.
It could have ended there, but that’s when things got out of hand...