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Anarchy Media Player plugin for WordPress has been updated to version 1.5 and will play any simple href link to mp3, flv, Quicktime mov, mp4, m4v, m4a, m4b, 3gp as well as Windows wmv, avi and asf files, in the appropriate player on your web page. It also adds buttons to the Rich Editor for embedding Flash swf and Director dcr movies as well as YouTube, Google Video and iFilm movies. Installation is simplified, just upload to plugins and activate (mu-plugins if using the WPMu version).

All the Flash, Quicktime and Windows Media object/embed codes are handled by Javascript due to the recent changes in the way Microsoft’s Explorer 6+ ActiveX controls handle embedded media. This update to Anarchy Media Player was also developed on WordPress MultiUser server which tracks WordPress 2.1 development so it should be future proof on those platforms as well.

Acknowledgments: I’d like to make it very clear that all I’ve done, in the spirit of open source software, is hack bits of code from the good work of other people into a single Javascript and PHP plugin. Anarchy Media Player is based on a hack of the excellent Del.icio.us mp3 Playtagger javascript as used in Taragana’s Del.icio.us mp3 Player Plugin and using the PodPress flv player and the EMFF inspired WP Audio Player. Flash embeds are courtesy of Michael Bester’s Kimili Flash Embed utilising Geoff Stearns’ excellent standards compliant Flash detection and embedding JavaScript while Rich Editor buttons and embedding are via buttonsnap.php from Red Alt and Vipers Quicktags. The whole and its parts are distributed under the GNU General Public License so feel free to do as I did and hack away to your hearts content.

If you’d like to take Anarchy Media Player for a test drive feel free to sign up for your own Anarchy blog.

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