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May 10, 2005
Welcome to the Y! Music Engine Plugins Site!
Hello everyone, and welcome to the official unofficial Yahoo! Music Engine plugins site. As an intro, let me answer some basic questions about what you'll find here.
What is a Yahoo! Music Engine plugin?
A YME plugin extends or changes the functionality of the Yahoo! Music Engine in some useful way. They come in two varieties for the most part, DLL Plugins, which download and run locally, and Web plugins, which can just be Web pages enhanced with Y! Music Engine awareness.
How do I use them?
Just find one you'd like on this page, download, install, restart Y! Music Engine, and test it out. Please keep in mind that VERY LITTLE (if any) testing has been done on these, so using them is at your own risk (as King T would say). These are generally for power users, not grandmas (sorry grandma, prove me wrong).
How do I create one?
They're fantastically easy to create and Dave Brown has done a stellar job of documenting the API and a few of us have contributed to the sample code writing. You'll find most of what you need (we hope) in the developer docs.
What about skins?
Ah yes. We use the same skin engine at Y! Messenger. Some basic documentation on how to create skins can be found here. We hope to extend these docs in the near future (aka, when we have time).
Anything else?
Not really. I'd just like to let you know that nearly every feaure in the Y! Music Engine product was written with this same API, so we've used it enough to know that it works! Enjoy, and let us know what you create. Looking forward to testing your creations.
ian
Posted by irogers at May 10, 2005 05:14 PM