Time for Your Yahoo! Music Engine Plugins to Move House

Yo YME Developers!

The Official Unofficial YME plug-in site will be retiring soon now that Yahoo! has an Official Official site for such things… the Yahoo! Application Gallery. Our little baby’s all growed up and moving out of the little shack we built for her (thanks Alex and Hala for the hosting, and Peter for the graphix). *sniff*

So if you have a Yahoo! Music Engine plug-in on the current plug-in site that you would like to remain available to the public, please re-submit it to the Yahoo! Application Gallery. Just go to http://gallery.yahoo.com/submit/. Please note: you’ll need to register as the first step. This will make sure that the plug-in is associated with your Yahoo! Gallery page.

Also, please submit any new plug-ins to Gallery starting now.

We’re turning off the old site soon, so submit your plugins now or your public will miss you.

If you’ve not yet had the pleasure of developing a Yahoo! Music Engine plugin, I’ll take this opportunity to tell you a bit about what they are and how they work:

Yahoo! Music Engine was designed to be a browser for Internet media applications. As such, all the basic media player features are available to any plugin, and plugins can be written in just about any language, from C++ to C# to Javascript. Your plugin has access to the media library, playback engine, playlist engine, and more. Current plugins manage Podcasts, show photo slideshows with your playlists, build charts and graphs based on your media library, interact with your cell phone, etc.

For more information on building Yahoo! Music Engine plugins, visit the documentation at Yahoo!’s awesome developer site.

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