Flash player "now playing list" without interrupting current song

Question

I am designing a website that plays music. I need a flash player that has or can handle a now playing list. The problem I am facing is that I cannot update the playlist without refreshing the player which means it will interrupt the song that is currently playing. I have trying with JW player in particular so far and have not been successful. All i am able to do is pass a playlist as an xml file but not able to update it without refreshing the playlist. Is there any other player that would better suit my needs? Is there a way i can do this with jw player itself

Answer 1

DEMO: http://jsbin.com/ehonu/20

Ok. here we go..!

First of, here there is a Must Read from the JW official site! and here the events doc

Anyway, my way is by using COOKIES & JW Player: ActionScript API Calls

the idea behind, is that since jw player can use Listeners and theese can Listen also the Curent Position of the song in this moment, we track it into coockie when Page UNLOAD

then it can also SEND EVENTS so when page refresh and dom is loaded we send back the position to the player! ;-)

for the Refreshing Playlist without refresh Page you can of course use the Send Event like this:

setTimeout("refreshPlaylist('myfile.xml')",2000);

function refreshPlaylist(theFile) { 
currentItem = -1; 
previousItem = -1; 
//this Reload the playlist
player.sendEvent('LOAD', theFile); 
};​

For better Understand Look Into the code of demo example!

Let me know!