A Music Player To Be Proud Of
I've been growing increasingly frustrated with the built in Posterous music player. There's nothing wrong with how it plays the music, but the lack of control over how it displays the Artist and Title rubs me up the wrong way.
Look at the way it dealt with the Arlo Guthrie track the other day. That mp3 file has standard ID3 tags which every other player seems able to read, but the Posterous player resorts to using the file name and substituting an underscore for any spaces. It's just ugly!
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Driven to a frenzy of exasperation (exaggerate? Me?), I spent some time today searching out the code for the music player I used when I blogged on WordPress. The thing is that using it is not as convenient as the inbuilt Posterous system. To make it work you have to get your hands dirty with some HTML code.
I'm actually quite happy mucking around with HTML, but I like convenience too, especially when my objective is simply to put up a post which includes some music. My solution was to turn to AutoHotKey, with which I made a small program to automate the task as much as possible. Here's the result - I hope you like it (assuming it works!)
I like this version of Green Day's Basket Case (it seemed rather appropriate). You can find out a bit more about Janie Porche at her website.
