Is there no way to preview the appearance of the player before publishing it?

I’ll clarify my last post. I hadn’t been to the Design page, so that’s why I was wondering about being able to preview the player’s appearance.

But now that I’ve found the Design page, I do not find instructions for even changing the colors. I see the TOOLS used to change the colors, and I can change the colors in the pallet window, but I cannot figure out HOW to SET a new color.

I also discovered that there is apparently no way to create the order in which audio files will play in a playlist, unless I rename the files so they each begin with a number.

If it appears that I’m not understanding this, it’s because I cannot find detailed instructions. In another browser window, I am looking at the Documentation, but so far it has been no help whatsoever.

Please tell me where I can find the instructions to make this as simple as it’s apparently supposed to be.

Thank you.

Hi Mike, to set the colour you should only need to click one of the droplet icons next to a colour first. Maybe it’s not working for you?

Ordering depend on how you’re using the plugin. It sounds like you are using the feature that lets you bulk play an entire folder. In this case the ordering options are by filename or upload date, in asc or desc order. These are set on the plugin’s settings page.

For arbitrary control over the playlist ordering then a different method should be used to make the playlist, for eg. you can upload to the media library and then use WP’s built-in playlist builder. Or you can write a shortcode and specify each filename.

I should mention that I am trying to use the widget option, hoping to place the player in a sidebar, and play the contents of a folder.

After selecting a color from the color pallet, I click the droplet. The droplet itself turns yellow and the color I was trying to change does change, but to grey. So I’ve given up on changing the colors.

Next, for the player settings, I’ve left the maximum height value empty, so that the entire list is seen. But when the player appears, it is only high enough to display the first file in the list; the one ready to play. It shows nothing else.

I appreciate very much that this plugin is free, considering the time you must have spent creating it. And I realize that others may not have trouble. But, with all due respect, while I do appreciate that you’re explaining things here, I am frustrated that several hours have already been spent and I must come here to ask very specific questions due to the lack of instructions. I’m sorry.

I’ve finally figured things out. It took four hours of trial-and-error to achieve what I was after.

I was attempting to change a color by first choosing a color in the pallet and then clicking the droplet. I ultimately discovered that I have to first click the droplet and then choose the color. As for the player not displaying the playlist, I had missed the checkbox to do that. However, now that I found and checked that, I also opted to display the stop button, but it does not appear.