cruxy player for second life - a virtual world widget
what is second life?
Second Life is a 3D online digital world that reflects the creativity of the
world’s residents. Cruxy can get your digital creations into Second Life for
avatars from around the world to discover and experience. Register for Cruxy
today, or log into your account, and start making your media available to a
whole new world.
Sign up for Second Life here:
http://www.secondlife.com/join
Second Life has a vibrant music scene that we are big fans of. We’ve been working hard to bridge the various media promotion and distribution services we’ve built for RL (real life) musicians into the SL Grid and we’re ready to start sharing the results.
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the cruxy player
Cruxy Player for Second Life is a portable music player for use at listening parties, as a promotional giveaway, or for just some relaxing downtime in your personal parcel of land. It can load and play music from mp3 playlists using the XSPF standard (http://xspf.org). XSPF (”spiff”) is like the common M3U format, but formatted as XML, much richer in detail, and supported by sites such as Odeo, Webjay, Yahoo! Music, Last.fm, Magnatune, and of course, Cruxy.
To provide maximum opportunity for creativity, the player is being released open-source, under the GNU General Public License. It allows for full modify and copy rights, and can be easily skinned, colored, or otherwise customized, much like our flash player for the web. You can even take the core player script and embed it into another type of object - an old-fashioned radio, dj turntables, your spaceship’s console, or some other use we would have never imagined.
You can view the source code of the player here: Cruxy Player 2.0 GPL'd Source Code
tracking the player
Click here to view the Cruxy Music Map.
how you get the player
a typical cruxy.com page
Through support for this standard, the Cruxy Player can be used for many purposes, however we are most excited about the power it brings to musicians to promote themselves inside of Second Life. The player can be left in a public place, such as a store or cafe, as a free giveaway. You could also give it away only to people who attend your live shows, as an incentive for fans. Through Cruxy's new ability for you to set whether a track is full-length of just a preview, you can also provide your fans an incentive to purchase the full downloads.
Anyone with a free Cruxy.com account can load the player up with their original music by uploading it to Cruxy. Each user has an automated, personalized XSPF playlist which can be linked into the player.
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how it works
This diagram provides a bit more detail on how the Cruxy Player in Second Life interacts with the playlist, media files stored on Amazon’s S3 server, and the Second Life media streams itself.
The player acts as a means to set the parcel music URL through an interactive script. For this to work, the land you are on must be owned by your or a group you are an officer in. Also the player must be deeded to the group on group-owned land. These are unfortunate limitations of the Second Life platform, which we hope will change soon.
The player is controlled through a popup menu or simple chat commands, with the ability to switch to any track or to link out to Cruxy.com for purchasing “real life” downloadable media of the same music being heard in Second Life. (Cruxy users receive about 75% of gross profits, paid out monthly - learn more)
We hope you are as excited about this new service as we are. If you’d like to talk more or need help in SL, you can find me as ‘Nat Mandelbrot’.
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Virtual Ludlow Street Location
