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I half figured out something kind of neat My CSS ineptness notwithstanding, I worked on something a little bit cool for the OPML Editor draft 1.0 site this morning before going to work. It's a page that pops up from this page. I didn't edit the MP3 because some people might want to listen to the whole thing, but I did want to tell or show where the nittygritty about the spec language started, so I stuck a little arrow under the player to mark the passage. I think something like this might work as a poor man's way to do audio file chapters or mark off sections of a podcast to map to shownotes on a web page. It seems like it could be automated. I'll tell you what I did manually and see if you think it could be programmed. I figured, x over the length of the player, 650px, equals 9.5 minutes into the podcast over 32 minutes, the total length of the podcast:
So I put the marker 221px in. Except I had to fiddle with it. BUT. If a person were to take the trouble to work out the net length of the slider on the player, subtracting the length of the icons left and right, I'll bet this could happen. You could do it with a Flash player, too. The product would be a browser-based podcaster's tool -- a form that took shownote times and descriptions, then planted markers at the right points tucked up against the player. Have you ever seen anything like this anywhere? |
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