[Plugin: MP3-jPlayer] Play whole media library

Yes absolutely, but you need to use the template tags. Assuming you have no playlists anywhere, you can do it like so:

put this code in header.php above wp_head():

<?php
if ( function_exists('mp3j_addscripts') ) {
	mp3j_addscripts();
	mp3j_flag();
}
?>

then put this where you’d like the player to go (eg. sidebar.php):

<?php
if ( function_exists( 'mp3j_grab_library' ) ) {
	$lib = mp3j_grab_library();
	mp3j_set_meta( $lib['filenames'] );
	mp3j_put( 'feed' );
}
?>

that should be it.
Simon

Yes just insert this in the sidebar code above:

shuffle( $lib['filenames'] );

so that chunk becomes:

<?php
if ( function_exists( 'mp3j_grab_library' ) ) {
        $lib = mp3j_grab_library();
        shuffle( $lib['filenames'] );
        mp3j_set_meta( $lib['filenames'] );
        mp3j_put( 'feed' );
}
?>

Simon

unfortunately this is not as simple as it maybe should be.

jquery.jPlayer itself does not support reading of ID3 tags as is, and from what i can tell Happyworm won’t be adding this anytime soon due to various complications with flash and current html5 support from browsers.

The tags could be read separately, but it means more scripts and more loadtime/bandwidth, and each of the files in a long playlist would have to be accessed to get this info, which will slow things down.

btw if you keep your tracks in the WordPress library you’ll never have to enter title/artist more than once, but i appreciate that for playing off-domain mp3’s if you want anymore than a filename displayed it requires some additional typing!

Should things get any simpler with ID3 tags i will look again at adding support for them.

Simon