I am using the default SoundCloud audio widget to play a playlist and would like the songs to play in a random order. I am using the SoundCloud JavaScript SDK oEmbed object (the iframe version).
<script src="//connect.soundcloud.com/sdk.js"></script>
SC.oEmbed("//soundcloud.com/buzzinfly", {
auto_play: true,
start_track: random_start_track,
iframe: true,
maxwidth: 480,
enable_api: true,
randomize: true
},
document.getElementById("soundcloud_player"));
The documentation doesn't mention any randomize or shuffle attribute, but other undocumented attributes like start_track are supported with oembed.
//developers.soundcloud.com/docs/oembed#parameters
//developers.soundcloud.com/docs/widget
Does any one know if there is an attribute to shuffle the song order in the default audio widget?
If not, is there is a way to capture events from the default SoundCloud widget, so I can play a random song after a song finish event? Like you can with the custom player.
//developers.soundcloud.com/docs/custom-player#events
$(document).bind('onPlayerTrackSwitch.scPlayer', function(event, track){
// goto random track
});
Thanks
Update
Here is code am I using after getting gryzzly's help.
The next button works great. I can skip thru random songs. Unfortunately, when a track finishes playing, I hear the audio of two songs: the next song in the playlist and the random track that is skipped to in the FINISH event.
var widget = null;
var song_indexes = new Array();
var current_index = 0;
$(function() {
var iframe = document.querySelector('#soundcloud_player iframe');
widget = SC.Widget(iframe);
widget.bind(SC.Widget.Events.READY, function() {
widget.unbind(SC.Widget.Events.FINISH);
widget.bind(SC.Widget.Events.FINISH, function() {
play_next_shuffled_song();
});
widget.getSounds(function(sounds) {
create_shuffled_indexes(sounds.length);
play_next_shuffled_song();
});
});
$("#button_sc_next").on("click", play_next_shuffled_song);
});
function play_next_shuffled_song() {
current_index++;
if (current_index >= song_indexes.length) {
current_index = 0;
}
var track_number = song_indexes[current_index];
widget.skip(track_number);
}
function create_shuffled_indexes (num_songs) {
for (var i=0;i<num_songs;i++) {
song_indexes.push(i);
}
song_indexes = shuffle(song_indexes);
}
//+ Jonas Raoni Soares Silva
//@ http://jsfromhell.com/array/shuffle [v1.0]
function shuffle(o){ //v1.0
for(var j, x, i = o.length; i; j = parseInt(Math.random() * i), x = o[--i], o[i] = o[j], o[j] = x);
return o;
};