LAUNCHcast in Firefox? Virtually!
Posted by emayoh, July 12, 2006 at 8:52 pm, in LAUNCHcast Radio, YMusicBlog General.
I converted to the Firefox browser a while ago, but I still need to keep an IE icon handy for some sites - including listening to Yahoo! Music LAUNCHcast. We all know a version of LC that works with Firefox will be an important evolution of the service… but I’ve always been a little impatient when it comes to evolution.
Along comes IE Tab - an extension for Firefox that allows a user (that’s you!) to actually load an instance of Internet Explorer right in a Firefox tab. The extension is a mere 163K, though it requires that IE be installed on your machine, of course. The cool part here is that you can specify certain URLs that always use IE - and for things like the LAUNCHcast web player, it can open just the pop-up player in IE. So I visit music.yahoo.com in Firefox, click a LAUNCHcast station, and the pop-up player that opens is automatically an instance of IE - and LC plays beautifully.
When configuring IE Tab, I added http://radio.launch.yahoo.com/ to the list of URLs that automatically use IE Tab.
We still need to come up with a Firefox version - but for those who have IE installed, but still prefer to use Firefox, this is a nice solution. And, if you want to use it to listen to Chill Out — the station I program for Yahoo! Music — then that’s even cooler.
IE Tab: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/
Cheers!,
Mick O
http://360.yahoo.com/emayoh
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“We still need to come up with a Firefox version”
-Does this mean that no one is working on ‘firefox version’ yet (prob more accurately - one that will work in most browsers - web standards or flash, something)
Pretty please make it work natively with Firefox
IETab is a band-aid but I’d rather not corrupt my pristine firefox with IE
Comment by velcrospud4 — July 13, 2006 #
This is a pretty bad fix to the problem. I remember trying to use an extension that changed the user agent identifyer in firefox to trick Launchcast, but that didn’t even work.
The best solution is to just not use LaunchCast and find the content elsewhere, that’s what I’ve been doing for the past few years. When organizations take this long to get their act together, there’s no reason that the consumers should have to jump through frustrating hoops. This is and has been really pathetic and I hope people realize that there are simpler alternatives than screwing around with your browser - find the content elsewhere. Honestly, I wouldn’t even know if I was missing any exclusive content because I stopped going to LaunchCast a while ago, for this very reason.
Comment by philipashlock — July 21, 2006 #
Re: ashlock — the reason the user-agent identifier extension didn’t work is because LAUNCHcast really does require IE — the way IE parses code of the LC player — telling the LC player that it’s playing in IE , but not giving it the IE parsing is a recipe for bad news.
As for not using LAUNCHcast — it’s not about finding the content, it’s the unique technology in LAUNCHcast that sorts through the content. Anyone can find loads of content anywhere — finding relevant content quickly is why LC rocks.
We always recommending using what works for you. I was just trying to give people an option they may not have known about.
Cheers.
Comment by emayoh — July 21, 2006 #
Hey, just a cool coincidence. I had just loaded up the chillout channel in Launchcast (via YME) and had decided to check this blog to see if there was any YME news. Lo and behold, I find myself reading words from the guy who’s programming my channel! Thanks, I like your work! By the way, if you can pass on any comments about YME, I don’t want more features in the future, I just want it to load more quickly and run faster.
Comment by earnestp — August 15, 2006 #