User talk:A2Z

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Welcome!

Hello, A2Z, and welcome to the Adventures in Odyssey Wiki! We hope you enjoy improving our Adventures in Odyssey database. Here are a few pages to help you get started:

If you need help, feel free to post a question at the town hall or on my talk page. You can also place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. Again, welcome!  Scientific Guy (talk / AIOC Episode Timeline) 16:13, 21 February 2019 (MST)

If you would, please keep this message here. We ask that talk pages not be erased. Thanks! Scientific Guy (talk / AIOC Episode Timeline) 15:51, 22 February 2019 (MST)

AIO Audio Player

Hi A2Z, what help do you need? Scientific Guy (talk / AIOC Episode Timeline) 20:06, 22 February 2019 (MST)

I was wondering if it would be ok if I would make a Windows version of the AIO Audio player? A2Z talk 20:11, 22 February 2019 (MST)
Go ahead and give it a try! I don't think the Audio Player is under copyright by us. Only problem is that the code behind the player doesn't work anymore, but if you can make it work for Windows that'd be great. If you need help with any wiki editing for the project, let me know. :) Scientific Guy (talk / AIOC Episode Timeline) 20:17, 22 February 2019 (MST)
Any idea why it stopped working? A2Z talk 20:21, 22 February 2019 (MST)
1) Microsoft Silverlight died, 2) Focus on the Family changed their online streaming method for episodes. Scientific Guy (talk / AIOC Episode Timeline) 20:34, 22 February 2019 (MST)
Hey Scientific Guy, I might of found out a way to make the app work. If I just make an app that shows the webpage: https://www.oneplace.com/ministries/adventures-in-odyssey/player, and make sure to credit Oneplace, would that be violating oneplaces copyright laws? A2Z talk 15:37, 23 February 2019 (MST)
I wrote the full app, it's old and deserves to die, I have been working on a new html5 web based one that I like to think is very nice. It's been a few months now but I think it's almost ready for release. I also have a full data api for all the episode info that's hosted on the wiki's servers I can give you more details if you're interested in actually making your own. Reddo (talk) 09:22, 25 February 2019 (MST)
Yes that would be great, if its web based then i could just use the player that you are making. If it is okay with you... A2Z talk 10:23, 25 February 2019 (MST)
Is the api you talked about written in java or php? Also is there a way i can see the code. (Is it on Github?) A2Z talk 08:18, 26 February 2019 (MST)
Is there a better way to communicate with you instead of talk pages? A2Z talk 11:11, 28 February 2019 (MST)
Why does no one ever respond on these talk pages? A2Z talk 08:49, 4 March 2019 (MST)
You can email Reddo with Special:EmailUser. Just be patient, he's really busy, but he will respond when he can. Scientific Guy (talk / AIOC Episode Timeline) 14:56, 4 March 2019 (MST)
I emailed him like you said but he hasn't responded yet, must be busy... ;) A2Z talk 10:58, 2 May 2019 (MDT)

Hi, sorry I don't always check back on others talk pages best way is probably the email user button you did about a month ago, if I don't respond in 3 days just send another one. The api i mentioned, it's a simple url request that returns a JSON response of what's currently available

they should all be self explanatory as to what they are for, they podcast one is set up to only return audio podcasts so you don't have to worry about determining audio or video playback. for the apps I make I have radio set to refresh once a day, the others are once a week they check for new episodes, also don't have all your app users ping the server at the exact same time. I used to have it that way and I'd bring the whole wiki offline at 2:00 AM every single day, so now I have it as 2:00 + random number of minutes between 1 and 100

so that should be easy to incorporate into an app, the json files what runs the old android app that I need to update as well as the new web based one that User:Eugene and I are working on in our spare time. I'm also working on an image caching one to save on bandwidth for users, it'll be something like this

  • .../image.php?i=http://www.aiowiki.com/w/images/e/e0/01front.jpg&s=l&blur=true
    • i is the path to an image on the web, here i used the path for the cover of album 01, this image path you can get from the json files listed above
    • s is the size of the image, options are l m s for large medium or small
    • blur if you add blur=true to the end you get a blurred image that's nice for doing background effects, for the normal image just leave the whole blur part out

no need to make the user download the whole 4MB file if you only need a small icon

If you're making a app I'd love to try and help out with it, I'm not experienced with writing windows 10 apps but I'd like to try it out, C# is probably my favorite language but I usually end up writing in php and js.

I'll make sure I check back here over the next little while Reddo (talk) 10:08, 3 May 2019 (MDT)

Now I am the one to say sorry! I am two months late to respond, not that bad ;) Thanks for responding, I'll check it out. A2Z talk 09:22, 22 July 2019 (MDT)
That works for the data (text, images) but where do you get the audio? A2Z talk 12:19, 23 July 2019 (MDT)
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