Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

Yahoo! Media Player enhances your web site or blog by creating an embedded player for each audio link. All the links can be played with one click, and it automatically finds all audio links on your page, turning your page into a playlist.

Magical floating design never gets lost, is available when you need it, gets out of your way when you don’t need it. So that it keeps the user in the page rather than sending them away to a media player. This is done by adding one line of HTML to your page.

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Demo: http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/
License: Terms

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YensDesign has written an interesting jQuery tutorial (Create an music player using mouse gestures and hotkeys) focused on improve the user’s interaction in your web applications. There are a lot of online jukebox based on javascript interaction, but the most of them ignore the power of mouse gestures and hotkeys.

YensDesign has created an amazing music player coded in xHTML and jQuery that made use of mouse gestures and hotkeys. You can Click & Drag with mouse to interact with interface’s music player or use directional keys & spacebar instead of mouse.

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Demo: http://yensdesign.com/tutorials/musicplayer/
License: License Free

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Using the Ribbit Voice Platform, voice is now a programmable feature that is free from the traditional device. Going way beyond the call, Ribbit is an open platform for multi-protocol communication, empowering a new market of voiceware applications and services.

It can go anywhere… on a phone, on a webpage, inside email, and in an existing app. Voice can now live inside any environment including online communities or stores, CRM systems, call center applications, media properties – you name it. It can be captured, stored and sent in traditional and non-traditional ways…it is totally free for your innovation across any industry.

Coding voice as a feature is easy. Build your rich voice applications in either Flex or Flash. Their voice components are available in both flavors. Now you can easily add the ability to make and receive calls, record, send and receive voice messages, as well as add and organize contacts to your applications with the Ribbit API. Leverage the Ribbit Voice Platform to enrich your applications with voice, others have.

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Demo: http://developer.ribbit.com
License: Read License

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Soundsnap is a nice platform to find and share free sound effects and loops- legally. It is a collection of original sounds made or recorded by its users, and not songs or sound FX found on commercial libraries or sample CD’s.

It was originally started by a small group of sound people from all over the world. Their common belief is that sounds and samples should be free for everyone to use in their projects, commercial or not.

Their users are a diverse mix of sound designers, sound artists, web game developers, filmmakers and music producers. Hobbyists and home video makers are welcome too. They encourage everyone to upload high quality sound FX and samples, helping them make every kind of sound available on Soundsnap.

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Demo: http://www.soundsnap.com/
License: License Free

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SoundManager 2 is an attempt at providing the sound API which Javascript has been missing. It’s a Javascript library which wraps and extends Flash’s sound capabilities, bringing cross-platform audio functionality to Javascript. SoundManager 2 was written to meet a desire to have Javascript-driven sound for interactive web-based projects. It is free for use in both personal and commercial projects. View / hear some of the examples of Javascript-driven sound, and applications implementing SoundManager 2. They are really impressive.

Requirements: Flash 8+
Demo: http://schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/
License: BSD License

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Few days ago, one of our readers has found an interesting site with huge collections of different sounds. I found it really useful and we could use them in our websites and web applications. Sometimes, adding little but not too much sounds in our sites can enhance the user experience. And they can even give your site more life.

The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, … released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to

• Browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a “sounds-like” type of browsing and more
• Upload and download sounds to and from the database, under the same creative commons license
• You can even interact with fellow sound-artists

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Demo: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu
License: Creative Commons License

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