Spiffdar update
Saturday, November 5th, 2011I noticed a while back that Spiffdar website had gone, and sometime soon after the domain was dropped, and I picked it up. I didn’t really have a plan to resurrect the Spiffdar website then. It was just rather that than allow it to be taken up by some advertisers – you never know. It is in fact linked to a couple of other sites, though I don’t think there is much traffic to it.
Some while before, I had asked if I could use the source-code, via email to the original Spiffdar developer, Steven Gravell, who promptly and kindly allowed the Spiffdar source-code to be available for any purpose and without warranty, explicity, to anyone.
I really like Spiffdar. I really like Playgrub as well. I really like how Playgrub links to Spiffdar. These things seem to have gathered some dust despite being very cool. I grow to appreciate these more now and feeling a bit nostalgic and wishing Playdar had become more the game-changer it looked like it could be. In any case I soldier on. It still shows potential, and it interests me a lot. I will keep developing Playnode and have incorporated some of Spiffdar in it already. Since I had done that it seemed to make sense to update Spiffdar.
The point of this article was really to note that I am still working towards Spiffdar being as good as it was, and ironing out the kinks with the conversion to jQuery right now. The next track in the playlist should now be automatically played, as it did before, so it’s getting there. That was a Prototype to jQuery conversion issue I introduced.
I note that it doesn’t play the next available track skipping any unresolved items, so I’d like to fix that soon and I intend to make it persist playlists and allow playlists to be edited also, shortly.
