Play Them All Firefox Extension
This weekend I needed a simple way to play a bunch of MP3s linked from a webpage. But I couldn't find a slim Linux MP3 player that could parse the links from the page and stream the files for me1).
However, nearly all players do support the M3U playlist format which can contain HTTP URLs. So I needed a tool to create such a playlist from a website…
That's how Play them all was born.
It's a simple FireFox extension that scans a page for links ending in ”.mp3” and creates a playlist from it. To create the list I use the data URI format to trigger the usual download dialog. This way you can simply set a default handler for the text/x-mpegurl mime type and it will automatically open your favorite MP3 player whenever you hit the toolbar button.
Get the extension at the mozilla page or just download it here: playthemall.xpi.
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5I installed the Play them all plugin, however it is not working as I expected. It creates a file with a .part extension and for some reason amarok that I have on ubuntu linux do not want to play that. If I save the file and change the extension to .m3u it is played with no problem. I also tried vlc and it seem to work just fine.
Frederick
Hi, I'm Andreas Gohr and splitbrain.org is my website.I'm a Web, Wiki and Open Source enthusiast living in Berlin, Germany. Enjoy your stay here.
Only downside is that you have to leave the page open. A necessity which your solution does not have.
Nice!