Playing audio posts without using embed

[HT154]

Is there a way to stream audio directly from the url provided in the "audio_url" attribute? Whenever I try, I get errors, and visiting the URL in a browser yields "request denied" page. I want to avoid having to use a WebView to embed the flash audio player if at all possible.

Any ideas?

[Larcus94]

What platform are you working on? 

I've figured out a way to access all URLs except of the spotify URLs. However, I'm pretty sure that Tumblr would have given us the URLs if they wanted us to use them. So they actually don't want you to use this so you should open a thread that asks them to change this. 

Here's the pattern to get a working URL:

Take this URL: "http://a.tumblr.com/%@o1.mp3" and replace %@ with the last path component of the audio URL given by the Tumblr API. 

Example:

Tumblr gives you: "http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/turooo/28617052638/tumblr_m8654o25O01r6rwqc"

The audio URL you can use is: "http://a.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8654o25O01r6rwqco1.mp3"

[HT154]

I'm working on OS X. This works great.

Thanks a ton for the help. I'll open a thread requesting a few things I've noticed over the past few days.

[Larcus94]

Are you developing a mac app for tumblr?

[HT154]

Well, attempting to. I'm relatively inexperienced with Objective-C, and wrapping my brain around AppKit is proving challenging. It's more for practice and experience, but if it turns out well, who knows?

[p3lim]

This doesn't seem to work well with the soundcloud audio files.