MediaView Wiki

Welcome to the MediaView wiki!

This is the official wiki page for MediaView. It is made up of 2 sections. Scroll down for Section 1, and enjoy using MediaView!

Section 1: Basic Use

To use MediaView, first download and execute the latest version as an HTML file. This file can be found under the main branch of this repository, in the file directory MediaView/All Versions/Current under the name “MediaView” followed by the version number (V1.1.0 would be listed as “MediaView (1) (1) (0).html”).

MediaView is a media player designed to be used with video and audio file(s) with common file types like .mp3 and .mp4 (among others). If one of your file types isn’t supported, contact us using the "Issues" tab.

Upload the file(s) using the buttons at the top (all uploads are done client-side).

• “Upload File(s)” allows you to select specific files from the same directory.

• “Upload Folder” allows you to select a folder and upload all of its contents. You may need to accept a confirmation message, depending on your browser.

• “Clear Files” clears all the files currently uploaded, also at the top.

Once the files are uploaded, you may use the features, which are in the next section below (keyboard shortcuts listed).

Section 2: Features

• The file list, found below the controls, displays all uploaded files. A file name can be clicked to skip directly to that file.

• Autoplay makes it so that the next file in the file list is automatically played after the current file is done. It cannot be turned off unless the override is used. Autoplay is on by default.

• Play/Pause (spacebar, denoted by the play/pause icon) plays and pauses the current file.

• Shuffle (alt+s) randomizes the order of files played after the current file.

• Skip Forward and Skip Back (right or left arrow) are the two large arrow buttons next to the Play/Pause icon. They skip forward or backward to a file adjacent to the current file (or a random file, if Shuffle is on.)

• Seek Forward and Seek Back (alt+right arrow or alt+left arrow) skip forward or backward 15 seconds in the current file.

• Set Speed, which should be pressed after a number is entered in the adjacent text field, sets the speed multiplier of the current file.

• Set Time, which should be pressed after a number in seconds is entered in the adjacent text field, sets the time in seconds of the current file.

• The search bar (alt+/) can be used to search for songs.

• Pin/Unpin, which appears next to each song, can be used to add songs to the “pin list” and make them autoplay, while songs not in the pin list are not played. This “autoplay override” can be toggled using the “Play only pinned” checkbox at the top. (alt+p)

• Pin/Unpin All Searched pins/unpins every song that appears in search results.

• Unpin All (alt+u) and Pin All (alt+a) add or remove all songs to/from the pin list.

• Export Pinned copies a pre-formatted list of every pinned song to your clipboard. Do not change the format of the list.

• Import Pinned should be pressed after the list from Export Pinned is pasted into the search box, pins every song that was pinned at the time the list was created. Use right click to paste, as ctrl+v will be disabled. If multiple files were uploaded to create the pin list, the same files must be uploaded in the same order.

• The loop checkbox (alt+l) labeled as “Check to loop and not autoplay” will enable loop mode and loop the current file. Autoplay will be disabled while this is checked.

• The autoplay/loop override (alt+spacebar) labeled as “Check to stop loop/autoplay” will disable loop mode and autoplay when checked.

• The timer (alt+t) labeled as “Check to stop in _ seconds” will automatically stop playback after an entered number of seconds. Using the keyboard shortcut will make the cursor jump to the text field and the enter key will confirm the input.

• The translate checkbox labeled as “Translate (Powered By Google)” will show a drop-down menu which can be used to activate the Google Translate API and translate the entire page.

Note: Google Translate API may be down in your area.

• The Visuals Toggle button (alt+v) can be used to toggle visual effects, such as audio visualization, a feature specific to audio files, showing video (in the case of video files) and tags (such as an image, author of the song or album cover art, in the case of .mp3 files specifically.)

• The volume slider (alt+up arrow or alt+down arrow) can be used to adjust the volume of only MediaView, rather than adjusting your device’s universal volume output.

• Scroll to Current Song (down arrow) automatically scrolls to the current song in the song list.

• Scroll to Top (up arrow) scrolls to the top of the page for convenience.

• Open Miniplayer opens a miniplayer window with basic functionality. This window is always on top.

• Use mp3 Image as Favicon changes the page’s favicon to the mp3 file’s image, if available.

• Don’t show file name as page title prevents the current file’s name from being used as the page title.

• Pinlist Dropdown Select and create pinlists from here. If you choose a pinlist, any pinlist actions will be saved to that pinlist on local storage.

• Delete Current Pinlist Deletes the current pinlist.