Music browsing with Opera
Wednesday, 9. May 2007, 19:12:05
We all know that Opera is a kind of music. But music might not be the thing you think about when you use the Opera browser.
I'm going to change that. Opera is perfect together with your media player of choice and My Opera. Have a look at this screen recording:
This was all done without any extensions to Opera. All you need to do is to enable your links panel (Ctrl + Shift + 9) and set the URL of MP3 files to be sent automatically to your media player of choice with the download preferences. I know it works well with Winamp.
To find MP3 files easily in a page, type 'mp3' in the quick find field in the links panel. To select several files, click the first MP3 in the list, hold down shift, and click the last MP3. Press return to send their addresses to Winamp. A new playlist is automatically generated from the URLs sent to Winamp.
You can switch tracks in Winamp faster by setting some global hotkeys for it in the Winamp preferences.
The video shows me browsing Zenya's blog.
I'm going to change that. Opera is perfect together with your media player of choice and My Opera. Have a look at this screen recording:
This was all done without any extensions to Opera. All you need to do is to enable your links panel (Ctrl + Shift + 9) and set the URL of MP3 files to be sent automatically to your media player of choice with the download preferences. I know it works well with Winamp.
To find MP3 files easily in a page, type 'mp3' in the quick find field in the links panel. To select several files, click the first MP3 in the list, hold down shift, and click the last MP3. Press return to send their addresses to Winamp. A new playlist is automatically generated from the URLs sent to Winamp.
You can switch tracks in Winamp faster by setting some global hotkeys for it in the Winamp preferences.
The video shows me browsing Zenya's blog.
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By Rijk, # 10. May 2007, 19:35:46
thanks choice post.
By HENRYDOWNES, # 10. May 2007, 19:41:30
I haven't really tried foobar2000, so I can't say anything about this.
HENRYDOWNES: I'm glad you liked it.
By drlaunch, # 10. May 2007, 20:56:26
thanks for the link
By zenya, # 12. May 2007, 21:44:02
By zomg, # 4. June 2007, 23:38:53
By VIPERO, # 25. June 2007, 07:21:58
The music is streamed instantly in my music player.
To do the same you have to use Opera for your PC, enable the links panel, and set MP3 links to be sent to your music player.
By drlaunch, # 25. June 2007, 07:43:37
By wallpearl, # 28. June 2007, 17:35:15
Foxytunes is completely unnecessary. And there's no excuse for using it.
Firefox extensions are a lame excuse for customisation of a browser. Discovering all the ways you can customize Opera is true enlightenment.
By drlaunch, # 28. June 2007, 18:09:04
By wallpearl, # 28. June 2007, 18:24:25
By drlaunch, # 28. June 2007, 18:49:23
Any comments, has a bug report been filed?
Seb
By sebt, # 5. September 2007, 23:34:51
I tried this with Kestrel myself but it crashed.
By drlaunch, # 6. September 2007, 10:41:30
This is a bug introduced in Kestrel; it works fine in Merlin. Do you want to report this or shall I?
Seb
By sebt, # 6. September 2007, 21:31:28
I bet this highly annoying bug where you can only add text to the end of a text field have already been reported.
By drlaunch, # 6. September 2007, 22:46:59
Lost me there
Seb
By sebt, # 8. September 2007, 02:15:08
I can't be the only one who encountered the bug, can I?
By drlaunch, # 8. September 2007, 06:08:58
Seb
By sebt, # 8. September 2007, 14:32:23
Edit: Puh. Finally got rid of the annoying bug by disabling myopera-community-enhancements.js.
By drlaunch, # 8. September 2007, 15:32:40