have <iframe> work asynchronously

Is there a good article or how can have an iframe or frame work asynchronously with every page? I have a bottom/fixed div wrapped in jquery to slide up on hover containing an mp3 player. I referenced the player with an iframe. I renderes fine, but how can it keep playing without a reload on page refresh or navigation to another page? I want it to be fixed at the bottom of every page and play continuously without refresh. I tried putting the iframe in each page, but that still didn't work. Any ideas? Thank you.

Solution

If it must stay in the browser ( not downloading an application or read stream in a music/video player ), the only way should be to don't really change page, and load content that must change with ajax or javascript ( or have it itself in a (i)frame ).

But it would be a lot easier to do a page with only the lector and put a link on your website to open it in another tab :

<a href="/music-player.htm" target="musicPlayer">Text or what you want</a>

Edit :

So with javascript it would be the same result than ajax, but that means not changing page so for the SEO if it's somewhat important it's not good.

What I meant by javascript was for example if you click on link "home" just adding dynamically a <script type="text/javascript" src="/homepage.js"></script> wich modify content of the page ( while keeping the mp3 player ).

Otherway, maybe with a cookie if it's possible with the player to know by javascript :

at know to wich mp3 file the player is
at wich time in the mp3 playing the player is
to go at a specified mp3 file
to go at a specified time in an mp3
(and if it is possible to pause the player, there should to be the ability to know if the player is playing or not )

It would be possible when changing page to get at the good time ( but there will be the time to load the page and mp3 player without music ).

Or there could be mp3 player which can save a the time at wich we are, and begin at this time on another page ( but still while changing page no sound for several seconds ).

With these methods there would be too the issue of opening several pages.

Edit :

I tried the way with the content of the page in iframe, it works rather well but needs the membre to switch in the mp3 mode.

Here is mp3.html ( to put in root folder, if it's not possible it would need some changes ) :

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
  <title>MP3 Player</title>
  <style type="text/css">
        html { 
        font-size: 100%; 
        } 
        body { 
            margin: 0; 
            padding: 0em;
        }
        #frame { width: 100%; height: 100%; border: none; }
        #player { position: absolute; right: 20px; bottom: 20px; }
    </style>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        if ("onhashchange" in window) {
            var h='';
            var command= false;
        window.onhashchange = function(){
                if(location.hash==h) return;
                command= true;
                window.frames['frame'].location.replace(location.hash.replace(/^#/,""));
                h= window.location.hash;
            }
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <iframe id="frame" onLoad="if(this.src=='')return;if(command)command=!1;else window.location.replace(h='#'+window.frames['frame'].location.href.replace(new RegExp('^'+document.location.origin),''));document.title=window.frames['frame'].document.title;"></iframe>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        document.getElementById("frame").src=document.location.hash.replace(/^#/,"");
    </script>
    <div id="player">
        <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://s301826463.onlinehome.fr/so/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://s301826463.onlinehome.fr/so/Tokyo.mp3" width="200" height="20" id="dewplayer"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="movie" value="http://s301826463.onlinehome.fr/so/dewplayer.swf?mp3=http://s301826463.onlinehome.fr/so/Tokyo.mp3"></object>
        <a href="javascript:document.location.href=document.location.hash.replace(/^#/,'')">remove mp3 player</a>
    </div>  
</body>
</html>

And to put a link that open the current page in an iframe and with an mp3 player, it only needs a link :

<a href="javascript:parent.location.href='/mp3.html#'+document.location.href.replace(new RegExp('^'+document.location.origin),'')">add mp3 player</a>

An example using that here.