Social bookmarking pioneer Delicious (they recently turned five years old) pushed out a couple of updates to its Internet Explorer and Firefox add-ons yesterday, fixing a couple of bugs and adding some features. But it looks like Delicious has also integrated a useful feature they didn’t mention in the blog post announcing the updates: a brand new audio player to play your MP3 bookmarks inside the browser.
TechCrunch reader Nicola D’Agostino spotted the new media player quickly, and he subsequently got a confirmation from a community manager of the Delicious team in the comments of the company blog post, adding that they’ll talk more about it soon.
Update: they’ve now blogged about the new media player on the Delicious blog as well as the Yahoo! Music blog. As our previous update below already suggested, the media player is in fact Yahoo’s FoxyPlayer. By using the “system:media:audio” tag, you can filter most views on Delicious to look for playable audio files. Enjoy.
I just tried it out, and while it’s not a groundbreaking feature, it’s a welcome addition for people who are used to bookmarking and tagging MP3 files with Delicious. The audio player, which pops up in a subtle horizontal bar, sports back/forward buttons, an integration with Yahoo! Search, a timer and a playlist.
Update: a trackback from the blog of former GM of Yahoo! Music Ian Rogers teaches us a little more about the background of the player, which is fact the Yahoo! Mediaplayer.
It’s very cool in that it is a single line of javascript and reads simple, easy to author, HTML on the page to create the play buttons. The page author needs only add the single line of javascript, then wrap an MP3 link in an href and voila, you have an inline player.
Note that the latest Foxytunes player also inserts this player in the page in a Greasemonkey sort of way. Very very handy.
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Cool feature! I think that preview is important in Delicious but have to remain basically.
Ya i agree cool feature too. And whats these sf sdf comments? Spammers. anyways what will they have in store for us next? A pop corn machine?
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one of my favorite concept , love to see similar concept for videos too.
Chandra
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I think Adam Sandler said it best when he said “whoopity doo!”
This is one of those: “wow, it’s about time” kind of features… certainly not praiseworthy at the level of the game delicious has achieved… lacking this ability for 5 years is almost criminal.
things just get better all the time at delicious.
Good
delicious improving slowly. however I do prefer audible.com that has also bookmarking feature.
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Isn’t this part of Yahoo FoxyTunes extension in Firefox? It allows you to play MP3 (incl podcasts) on any webpage - I use it on My Yahoo. V useful. Finally Yahoo beginning to integrate its properties. Now can we get delicious bookmarks in yahoo search please?
I wrote a comment but it seemed to get lost, so I did a post at my blog about it instead. A little backstory on this player at FISTFULAYEN.com.
Or if my comment is in the approval queue, feel free to delete this com
Wow! This is a good news! Delicious just got better, expanding the range of easy bookmarking.
it is a good new
http://www.eskibirsaat.com
So many features…
I think we have this sort of GM scripts for years now for some players i know like ‘Google’,'Wikipedia’ etc.
I don’t like delicious. It seems like not good for me
Delicious on its own may not be a very good solution, but the Delicious Firefox extension is downright awesome. You hit Ctrl-D and get a Delicious bookmark that is accessible from anywhere on the net. You can also make it a private bookmark. I am extremely dependent on this feature.
Şt has so many features but really good.
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I received this update when I started up Firefox this morning, haven’t had a chance to read up on what it offers until now. Sounds useful thanks for providing the details
would be fine if del.icio.us could fix the tagcloud on http://del.icio.us/taggedhype
this bookmark collection is ideal to play with the player
Thanks for the comments, everyone. To clarify, this is not a feature of our browser add-on; it is built directly into the Delicious site and everyone can use it.
cool feature!
I don’t like delicious !!
Guga
Delicious is now looks better then ever and that new future is very nice,keep it up.