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Music browsing with Opera

Wednesday, 9. May 2007, 19:12:05

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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.

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Comments

Rijk 10. May 2007, 19:35

Any ideas on foobar2000? I used to have a foobar panel, but that's been a while ago. Not sure if there is a http plugin for the current foobar2000 release.

HENRYDOWNES 10. May 2007, 19:41

hey drlaunch good one!!! xcellent i'm gonna give it a go
thanks choice post.

drlaunch 10. May 2007, 20:56

If foobar2000 generates a playlist when you load multiple files, and supports URLs I think it should work well.

I haven't really tried foobar2000, so I can't say anything about this.

HENRYDOWNES: I'm glad you liked it.

zenya 12. May 2007, 21:44

Ah! so you are finally enjoying my music :smile:
thanks for the link

zomg 4. June 2007, 23:38

I personally download mp3's and don't stream them from the web and rarely use the links panel - but this is a very nice use for it. Nice thinking. :yes:

VIPERO 25. June 2007, 07:21

hey how do you donloed music on to the playlist

drlaunch 25. June 2007, 07:43

I don't download the music to the playlist. I use Opera to open links in my music player. When I open several links, my music player generates the playlist itself.

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.

wallpearl 28. June 2007, 17:35

Nice :), but i like extensions, it mustn't open more windows application.

drlaunch 28. June 2007, 18:09

If you're referring to Foxytunes, it does open more applications. By default it opens Windows Media Player. Then it hides it.

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.

wallpearl 28. June 2007, 18:24

:yes: I know, but just it's hidden :D. Anny way, i 'll try to done with this tip. Thanks! :)

drlaunch 28. June 2007, 18:49

You should have a look at this: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=2121555

sebt 5. September 2007, 23:34

This doesn't work in Kestrel, at least under Linux; clicking mp3 links in the links panel just displays their content in the browser window! Clicking the same links on the webpage itself does however work. Strange; in the links panel they have little music icons, but Opera seems to ignore download settings and just tries to display the file.

Any comments, has a bug report been filed?

Seb :smile:

drlaunch 6. September 2007, 10:41

You do need to set MP3 file links to be sent to your music player, you can't just enable your link panel.

I tried this with Kestrel myself but it crashed.

sebt 6. September 2007, 21:31

We might be talking about the same (or similar) thing here; links panel itself works for me, but trying to open mp3 (or other binary mimetype) links ignores download settings and just tries to render the mp3 as a web page (displaying garbage as a result).

This is a bug introduced in Kestrel; it works fine in Merlin. Do you want to report this or shall I? :wink:

Seb :smile:

drlaunch 6. September 2007, 22:46

Could you? :lol:

I bet this highly annoying bug where you can only add text to the end of a text field have already been reported.

sebt 8. September 2007, 02:15

Links panel bug reported - bug numbers etc. on my blog :smile:

I bet this highly annoying bug where you can only add text to the end of a text field have already been reported.


Lost me there :confused:

Seb :smile:

drlaunch 8. September 2007, 06:08

I'm writing something here anow.nd then I'm trying to to write this at the a in anow but it started at the nd. You can't add text to the middle of a text.

I can't be the only one who encountered the bug, can I?

sebt 8. September 2007, 14:32

Really sorry m8. I'm still confused!

Seb :smile:

drlaunch 8. September 2007, 15:32

I think it must be related to a userscript I have installed then. I've only encountered problems with it anyway.

Edit: Puh. Finally got rid of the annoying bug by disabling myopera-community-enhancements.js.

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