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How do you determine what sort of media player, like Microsoft MediaPlayer or QuickTime is the default player?

I want my PHP pages to determine which is people's default player and use the appropriate player to playback MP3 file.

I know how to make it play either one, but I don't know how to make the browser know which is default player.

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That is definitely impossible via php, and I suspect impossible using only php and javascript. Maybe with Java. I don't really understand your question, however, as I would think things would automatically play in the default player.

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Well, I want to display the appropriate player, which are default on the end users' end.

At the moment, I can display the player's plug-in in QuickTime, (see UNITED, Our Songs) but what if they only have MS MediaPlayer plug-in installed. If that's the case, then they can't playback the song.

I was hoping to make my site "intuitive" enough to find out what kind of player plug-in are installed on the user's browser, and actually display the QuickTime or MediaPlayer plug-in on that page.

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Apple has some instructions on Detecting QuickTime with Javascript. One way to do it is to stick the Windows Media Player object/embed code in the "You do not seem to have quicktime" part, instead of the message.
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This all has to be done client-side with Javascript because PHP isn't sent information about plugins by the browser.

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Thanks, Terminal. The link should prove useful.

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I have done as much as I can on the website. It is located at Young Ossies Unite (YOU).

What do you think of it?

Can you playback or download any of the song?

Is the Guest Book working? I have added a filter (using PHP), because the Guest Book was getting spams (eg. links to viagra, calis, porns).