In general, I’m not a big fan of anything Yahoo!, but the Yahoo! Media Player is actually a really cool and easy way to stream music from your site. The only unfortunate thing is that there is a long list of to-do’s on the Yahoo! wiki (some of which should be standard).

Trackseek, Trackresume, Trackfocus Hacks

The good news is that this guy Eric Fehrenbacher developed a few amazing hacks, but for some reason the hyperlinks to the javascript files arent’ available and he hasn’t been replying to comments.

I’ve been trying to get these hacks to work on my other site, so I went ahead and extracted the .js files. Copy these files and then link to them in your HTML header:

This code is necessary for all 3 hacks:

http://www.danceatthepostoffice.com/js/ef.ymp.utilities.js

And then you can choose which extension(s) you want:

http://www.danceatthepostoffice.com/js/trackseek.js
http://www.danceatthepostoffice.com/js/trackresume.js
http://www.danceatthepostoffice.com/js/trackfocus.js

I’m not taking any credit (or responsibility) I just extracted the code. Please don’t deep link to these files, copy the code to your own server, and then also check back with Eric’s site in the future as he’ll hopefully be making updates.

How To Remove “Learn More About This Player”

Also, I couldn’t figure out how he got rid of the “Learn More About This Player” link. So I made up my own simple hack with CSS, just add this to your stylesheet or header:

<style type="text/css">
#ymp-relevance {
visibility: hidden;
}
</style>