Using Soundmanager2 to get metadata is hitting troubles with flash permissions. What I want is to access the metadata of a track in order to generate visual effects. (example of which here)
One thing I note is that you state
Their api allows for deep mashups, allowing access to nearly all track
meta data
So I know that you intend for this to be possible, in face the presence of the crossdomain.xml file needed shows this. The problem is that this file only grants permissions for the api subdomain. When a request is made to the api a 3XX response is given, and we are transferred to ec-media.soundcloud.com . This site has no crossdomain.xml file, and so flash and soundmanager hit an error and no metadata is received.
I have found a few instances of this via searching, primarily SoundCloud + Soundmanager2 + EQData is exactly the problem I’m having. This question was never answered though, in fact the only responses are from the original poster, and it is left with a hack around the problem.
My fix is every time I start a song over again I modify the Sound’s
URL to include a new ts={time} argument and then run .load() on the
SMSound which causes a reload and fixes the issue.
So I was wondering why the crossdomain.xml file is omitted on your ec-media subdomain, is it for security reasons? If so why do you state we have access to metadata?
Ultimately, would you be able to put in place the aforementioned file, or will you not and shall we work around the issue?
Thank you
crossdomain.xml is now available for everyone. I am sorry it took so long.