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This is the initial release of a lil’ greasemonkey script I cooked up.

requirements -
firefox browser
greasemonkey add-on

1pixelout created a fantastic means of embedding mp3 files into sites so visitors could stream music w/out hosts exposing the link to the site. Anybody that *really* wanted the file could contact the site’s owner or dig around w/view source to find the link and download the file themselves.

This eliminates that hassle.

Transforming the embedded player from something like this:

to fully sourced hrefs like this:

The screencaps show a demonstration from a recent post from a fairly popular blog to show how it works.

Download v0.19 here.

Known issues:
Certain sites (like, the fader) use the same ID name for every occurence of the audio player on the screen. this means that all links will show up under the first link. I’ll fix that before the full release. Consider this, a “soft opening.”

If you download, use it and run into any issues not listed above, let me know what you think about it by dropping a comment. Also, you can customize it to run on certain sites and exclude others via standard greasemonkey management.

As I’ve begun to work on a couple of ideas that could be useful to other people (greasemonkey scripts, wordpress plugins & themes, etc.), I’ve decided to create a lil’ site to house them all.

One fantastic thing that DreamHost does is give you a ton of themes to pick from, as a part of your install. These themes all contain fantastic ideas of what can be done with wordpress, and a few examples of things that must be avoided. Trying to create a theme from scratch (or cobble one from these examples) can become an arduous task, so instead, I decided to do something that would essentially never see the light of day to most visitors: Install Plugins.

After grabbing a few that I find absolutely necessary, I went about adding a bit of eye candy for myself in the form of Binary Moon’s custom login plugin. You can read about the details over there, but after an hour or so in photoshop, I felt pretty good about the image that screen that would greet me whenever I logged in and out of WP.

and, even though i’ve still got a few (read: a LOT) steps to take to complete the theme, the overall feel of the site is new and refreshing.