Code in my Bug! » yahoo http://projectbee.org/blog Bipin's experiments with life, society, programming, hacking, & other stuff Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:49:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Yahoo!’s javascript based media player! http://projectbee.org/blog/archive/yahoos-javascript-based-mp3-player/ http://projectbee.org/blog/archive/yahoos-javascript-based-mp3-player/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:45:55 +0000 Bipin 3 Upadhyay http://codeinmybug.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/yahoos-javascript-based-mp3-player/ Yahoo! launched it browser based media player written in javascript. All you have to do is link the javascript code (located at http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/js) in a web page having links to audio file(s) .

Although it takes a while for the “player” to load completely, yet I am pretty okay with it (for now). Moreover, it’s in beta. I, however, sincerely hope that it doesn’t follow GMail beta path. urghh!

Check back again in a few hours. I’ll posting a demo of the player on my portal. A demo is here. The demo would have This demo has a special meaning for the Indians of my age (or older than) because the songs I’ll be using will be the one we all grew up with, viz. Jungle Book, Mile Sur Mera Tumhara, Baje Sargam, Byomkesh Bakshi, Malgudi Days, Surabhi, Tipu Sultan & Mahbharat. :)

Special thanks to Madhav for sharing them.

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If you’ve been a member of some online group for quite some time, chances are that the group is on Yahoo! Groups. Same with me. This story is concerned with my college batch online egroup. Yahoo! groups has a very useful feature which let’s you specify ANY email address for your mails to be delivered (and receive mails from, obviously). I had configured it to my company mail id.

Now like a lot of people, I have two Yahoo! ids, NB and AS. The group is configured with NB. Today, I decided to change it to one of my other Yahoo! id AS, mostly because I use it as the primary id.

….but it won’t get changed. The error

  • Your email address “AS@yahoo.co.in” is in an invalid format.
  • Invalid Email Address.Your Email address of AS@yahoo.co.in belongs to yahoo.co.in which is restricted from use in Yahoo! registrations. Please choose a different email address.

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I thought, they might be allowing only “yahoo.com” addresses. So I changed my input to “AS@yahoo.com, hoping for an error message that the specified email address doesn’t exist… but what I get is:

  • Invalid Email Address.Your Email address of AS@yahoo.com belongs to yahoo.com which is restricted from use in Yahoo! registrations. Please choose a different email address.

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Now WHAT IN THE HELL are the Yahoo! developers thinking? They don’t think that it’ll stop people from creating more than one id… or do they?

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