How to Listen to 3hive
April 9th, 2007I don’t have the time I used to (like back in university days) to work hard to find great music. Thankfully, my friends at 3hive do the hard part. To make life even easier, I surf to 3hive using Firefox (get it here) and use an Add-on/Extension for Firefox called Page Playlist (get it here) that looks at any page you are on and if it has mp3s or links to mp3s, it will stream them in a handy Flash-based overlay.
Once you’ve installed Page Playlist, relaunched Firefox and activated Page Playlist (click on the icon for Page Playlist and then click the “Enable” button), your Add-ons window should have a few items in it but will look something like this:
(I’m showing the “Tools” menu in its drop down state because that’s where you go in Firefox and click on the menu item “Add-ons” to get the window).
Right. Now go to 3hive.com and you should notice a little musical note in a gray box in the upper left of your screen:
Double-click the note to expand the player:
Give the player a second to look at the page and build a list of songs/titles on the page. It shouldn’t take too long. Then single-click on the “<" in the player. You should get a list of all the mp3s on the page and you can start to listen:
I love the lightweight nature of Page Playlist and I can quickly preview songs to determine which ones I want to download. Makes browsing 3hive a whole lot more fun and I can stream any page on the site. o
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April 9th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
That was by far the coolest thing I’ve seen all day. You should post tech tips more often.
April 9th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Kick ass! 3hive is awesome (and thanks for that, by the way) and this add-on is almost too cool for words. Thanks, Jon!
April 9th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
I’ve noticed that Gmail has a player for MP3 attachments. Thanks for the heads up on the extension. Installing it now…
I miss the threehive Podcast. Bring it back!
April 10th, 2007 at 7:22 am
I’m a 3hive fan, and this add-on is going to rock my socks. Thanks!
April 10th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Yoda.
The husband will love this.
April 11th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
You know what I have always wondered about 3hive but never thought to ask? Is it pronounced “Thrive” or “Three-Hive”. Tobyjoe says “Thrive” and I’m not sure what to say so I don’t really say it out loud that much. And you might be OK with both pronunciations, but when you fine people from 3hive say it to one another, what do you say?
And if you’ve already answered this in the past, forgive me.
April 11th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Um, is there a way this can work with Firefox 2.0.0.3? Or do I have to go back to 2.0?
April 11th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
April, I’m running 2.0.0.3 and it works fine.
April 11th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
ok thanks! I’ll figure it out.
April 11th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
When I try to enable it, it says Requires additional items.
Any ideas??
(Usually I am pretty tech savvy, really.)
April 11th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
April, do you have Flash installed?
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/
Install it and then try to use Page Playlist.
April 11th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
haha It probably would have worked all along but I just didn’t go far enough and I got caught up in the “requires additional items” thing.
April 11th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
This rocks!
Also, try The Cropper!.
Okay, I’ll stop hogging your comments space.
April 13th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
I installed the plugin - and it’s showing up in my list of add ons - but am not seeing the little note on 3hive.
April 13th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
thank you! a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there was hober.com. last time i checked it was a little different than i remembered.
enjoying 3hive, just installed the plug-in as directed this morning (this is day 2 of dsl) though i’ve not yet figured out the download portion…i’ll get there…
May 13th, 2007 at 9:24 am
I wish these little Firefox plugins were available standalone, because I don’t trust the Firefox extension design so I use other browsers. Now, Firefox’s extension model is by no means another Active X disaster waiting to happen, but it’s got a fundamental security problem in the way extensions are installed… if you donwloaded the extension and loaded it from Firefox’s File menu, that would be fine, but the way they do it they’ve created a mechanism for a web page to request more rights in your computer than any web page should have… and there’s already been at least one vulnerbility found in this mechanism.
So… damn, that looks cool. Wish I could use it.
May 13th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Thanks for pointing out this extension
Unfortunately it doesn’t work 100% with 3hive (or so I’ve found). In the archives when there can be over 100 songs listed on the page, the player seems to fail. The icon appears yet when I double click it, none of the songs are listed and there’s no option to play the songs.
Anyone else have this problem?
May 27th, 2007 at 8:10 am
I did notice that the player fails for me on occasion as well, although I didn’t pay attention to the exact conditions. I cannot use the player with the Hype Machine . The 100 song issue may just be the problem there.