Bandcamp players?

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Is it possible to make posting Bandcamp players as simple as Youtube movies?

I know, that there is a simple API for this. If needed i can dig it out, but i don’t know how to implement this in diaspora myself.
The scheme is usually just to post a Bandcamp link, like

and this would be turned into a flash or html player automatically, according to what the user device requests.

EDIT: Now you can see, that here in this forum the link is already displayed right. But for some reason this doesn’t work, when i use players by URL in my own posts. Why?
EDIT 2: What is a onebox and why does it work here but not on my profile posts?

I’d be happy to help this, if someone could put me into the right direction, thread, etc.

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Hi @jayrope and thank you for your suggestion.

Diaspora* uses oembed to include rich content in posts. Trusted providers are list here or in the config file.

What needs to be done is to check if a provider for bandcamp exists and add it. A fallback could be to use this.

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Btw, I just tried to post the real album link (https://aircushionfinish.bandcamp.com/album/acfo-combat-for-tiger-chicken) and opengraph allows you to play the album already.

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@Flaburgan, thank you for answering. I realize now, that the player only shows up after some time. So generally it does seem to work, yes. That’s good news for musicians. Thank you again.

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Yup, embedding of Bandcamp tracks has been possible for a few years now. All embedding in diaspora* only shows up when you refresh the page after posting, because there’s no pushing of content (except notifications) in d*.

I’ll close this as it’s been resolved.