Here’s an mp3_player plugin for Rails. Check out handyrailstips.com/tips/7-playing-mp3-s-on-your-rails-site-with-mp3_player for more info

To install: script/plugin install git://github.com/GavinM/mp3_player.git

To setup: script/generate mp3_player [name of your mp3 directory]

This adds ‘player.swf’ to public/ and creates a new folder for storing all of your audio files.

To play an mp3 file found in public/mp3s/mysong.mp3 simply add <%= mp3_player(“mp3s/mysong.mp3”) %> to your view.

If you’re using paperclip: <%= mp3_player @my_model.mp3.url %>.

Below is a list of the extra options you can specify: (All colors should be expressed as hexadecimal values minus the ‘#’. eg. <%= mp3_player @my_model.mp3.url, :bg => “99FFFF”) %>

:width

width of the player when open in pixels, defaults to 290

:class

class of the div wrapping the player, defaults to “mp3_player”

:bg

background colour, defaults to “BBBBBB”

:left_bg

background colour of the left tab, defaults to “AAAAAA”

:right_bg

background colour of the right tab, defaults to “AAAAAA”

:right_bg_hover

colour of the right background as the cursor hovers over, defaults to “EEEEEE”

:left_icon

the colour of the speaker icon on the left, defaults to “222222”

:right_icon

colour of the play/pause icon on the right, defaults to “222222”

:right_icon_hover

colour of the play/pause icon as the cursor hovers over, defaults to “222222”

:text

colour of the text, defaults to “222222”

:slider

colour of the slider bar, defaults to “333333”

:loader

colour of the loaded data so far, defaults to “DDDFFF”

:track

colour of the track on the slider, defaults to “888888”

:border

colour of the buffer border, defaults to “333333”

This plugin is based on the Audio Player Worpress Plugin by Martin Laine www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin

Thanks to Matt Ittigson (github.com/mattenat) for inspiring changes to help support paperclip.

Copyright © 2009 Gavin Morrice (handyrailstips.com), released under the MIT license