Tab Player

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  1. Pro simurai simurai

    Made a quick mockup of audio controls that browsers could add to their tabs. Because something that I find a bit frustrating with audio in browser is this:

    Imagine you listen to a web radio, like in this example We Are Hunted. Now somebody tweets a link to a video, you click it, but before you can watch the video you have to hunt down the audio that is playing in one of the tabs and try to find the pause button so you don't get it mixed with the video.

    A solution could be that browser tabs would expose a button when audio is detected. So you could quickly pause them while staying active on your current one. It might also would make sense to have a standard API/spec that websites could use. Like a "skip to next song" which would be very handy to have quick access to.

    Another thing (or maybe even instead of this) that would be great to have: An API that works with the audio keys on the keyboard, like you all are probably already using for iTunes, Spotify or so.

    PS. I guess there are lots of implementation details to consider. So it might not be that simple, but just had to get it out anyways.

    Update: For Grooveshark, there is a status bar app that works with keyboard shortcuts.

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    about 1 year ago

  2. Pro Rich Smith Rich Smith

    Cool idea :) Not sure how do-able it would be though, but i guess there's always a way...

    about 1 year ago

  3. Pro Matthew Sanders Matthew Sanders

    Fun exploration.

    about 1 year ago

  4. Marco Marco

    i feel the frustration, good mock :)

    about 1 year ago

  5. Pro Carlos Gavina Carlos Gavina

    That would be perfect for musify, wonder if that will happen one day. The favicon giving a status of the player isn't enough..

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    about 1 year ago

  6. Pro Marian Friedmann ⚓ Marian Friedmann ⚓

    You are still on Leopard?

    about 1 year ago

  7. Pro Zach Forrester Zach Forrester

    Great idea, great execution.

    about 1 year ago

  8. Micah Spieler Micah Spieler

    Really great idea.

    about 1 year ago

  9. Andrew (Pez) Pengelly Andrew (Pez) Pengelly

    OMG want!

    about 1 year ago

  10. Pro Matthew Farag Matthew Farag

    Alternatively (or additionally) all audio would automatically pause when the frontmost tab's audio starts playing.

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    about 1 year ago

  11. Igor Ivankovic Igor Ivankovic

    yes, I'm having trouble with that issue also :D

    about 1 year ago

  12. Pro simurai simurai

    @Matthew Farag Yes, thought the same. But sometimes audio could be just a short alert or other audio effects, in that case it shouldn't stop the current playing music. Maybe it could only switch when both use a common spec/API that are meant for longer audio like music/videos/podcasts and not just any audio.

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    about 1 year ago

  13. Pro simurai simurai

    @Marian Friedmann ⚓ Hehe.. how can you tell? Yes, still on Snow Leopard. My MacBook doesn't let me install Lion, already too old. ;-(

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    about 1 year ago

  14. Bennett Feely Bennett Feely

    This idea has totally been discussed before. Apparently detecting if a browser tab is playing audio much easier said than done. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=3541

    Still love this shot. Looks awesome!

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    about 1 year ago

  15. Pro Thani Suchoknand Thani Suchoknand

    I have always wanted this!

    about 1 year ago

  16. Pro simurai simurai

    @Bennett Feely Haa.. Going back to 2008! Ya, seems tricky to do. There are browser extensions trying to solve this problem, but still limited in functionality.

    about 1 year ago

  17. Pro Michael Orcutt Michael Orcutt

    I told firefox to do this years ago.. still waiting!

    about 1 year ago

  18. Pro Isaac Grant™ Isaac Grant™

    How about a simple pause flash and audio button on the tab?

    about 1 year ago

  19. Pro Marian Friedmann ⚓ Marian Friedmann ⚓

    @simurai The big, bulky window controls in the upper left corner. :P

    about 1 year ago

  20. Pro M khalid khan M khalid khan

    Good solution :)

    about 1 year ago

  21. Pro Samuel Couto Samuel Couto

    Genius UI!

    about 1 year ago

  22. Kevin Eichhorn Kevin Eichhorn

    That's brilliant. Awesome!

    about 1 year ago

  23. Pro Ralph Manning Ralph Manning

    Great idea!

    about 1 year ago

  24. Leonard Latescu Leonard Latescu

    @simurai ingenious work. Hope to see it included in all browsers :).

    about 1 year ago

  25. Pro Victor Erixon Victor Erixon

    Very nice idea!

    about 1 year ago

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