New media player

Today I made a mock up of our potential new media player used to listen to our previews. I felt from the very beginning of designing the way Polybonk plays you our previews for each track was a total overkill and literally kills browsers.. most frequent in one particular dreaded browser.. *cough* IE6/7 *cough* (If you are using Internet Explorer of any kind please stop now. use Firefox.)

Here is a Sneak Peak at what the player might look like.

Comparing this design to our old system in this mock up only the top part in green is flash, in our old system EVERY single track had its own flash app to playback the track.

<-- This makes IE very happy + Slow computers

The basic idea behind this is to only use one flash app to manage all the previews on each page, unlike what we used to do. Another cool feature I wish to create is a new way to jump into different parts of the track. In the image above there are little white tabs which are meant to be little 25 segments of the track. By clicking on each tab it should jump into that section of the track.

<-- (old system) 15+ flash apps :( This makes IE every unhappy

I really hope to implement this player as soon as possible, I'll keep you up to date with the progress made in the furture.

Please leave any feedback and suggestions, keep in mind this is just a mock up and nothings final.