[Plugin: Audio Player] Version 2.0 beta released

I recently discovered Audio Player and am delighted with the way it’s solving the playback requirements on my website. The player is being used in its standalone version.

I upgraded to v.2 beta yesterday and I now have two issues which I can’t resolve. I’m therefore wondering whether anyone can shed light.

1. I can’t see a way in this version to alter the height of the plugin (just the width) – this was possible in v.1. Can this be done and if so, how?

2. When using multiple instances of the plugin within a page, selecting play on player 2 does not stop player 1 if it’s running. You therefore have to stop one player before selecting the next.

I’m all Mac here and have checked this function on Safari, Firefox and Opera – all with the same result. (Explorer won’t even show the plugin but even though it’s the last available Mac version, IE 5.2, it may still not be late enough to recognise the code.

Many thanks for any suggestions.

Rod.

@ alexleonard (plus anyone else really)

I can now get the audio player to work if I add it in using the WYSIWYG editor on my posts,pages and I click the audio button and then select the file I uploaded from the media library and choose the option ‘audio player’ which basically pastes this into the post/page

[audio:https://www.mysite.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/audiofile.mp3%5D

If I publish this it works fine (except the information has undefined at the beginning?)

However if I attempt to place this code above into a text widget it only displays the code and not the player? Is it the text widget that it doesn’t work with? Is there any tweaks that I can do to make it work in a ‘text’ widget?

Hi!

I have an audio-player ver. 2.0b6 and WP 2.7.1
When i push on play — “File Not Found” but all urls is correct
So, what’s the problem?
Thank you!

I don’t know what the problem is, but as soon as I experienced exactly the same issue – with the same versions – of “file not found” and couldn’t trace it to either WordPress or the location of the audio files, I did something that did work straight off the bat: I installed the microaudio plugin.

You will need to do a site-wide search for “[audio:” and then replace the code with the direct link to the MP3 files, though. But it works like a charm, and it’s a mighty lightweight plugin, too.

Yes, thank you, i saw this plugin and tried to install, but i don’t like the conception – “click on the link for a play”, i think it’s really strange for users.

I will try to fix “file not found” problem, some of the people in this forum have the same problem, maybe they can help me…

I am making a bilingual website in English and Persian (English page sample here | Persian page sample here). Audio Player plugin works fine on the site but it looks a little bit awkward on Persian pages because of its placement in the middle of the page.
I can use the “Switch to RTL layout” in the option page but then I have the same problem on the English pages. Is it possible to make “Switch to RTL layout” active only when the page is defined as a RTL page? That way the player automatically can be aligned to the correct direction based on the direction of the page. So instead of “Switch to RTL layout” we can have “Follow the Direction of the page”.
I use qTranslate for the bilingual feature.

I now have the standalone version of this player working really well. Thanks to previous advice, it now works in IE (although not on the Mac which Microsoft stopped support for later versions of IE).

However, the one thing I really miss (which was in v.1 of Audio Player) is the option to adjust the height. At present it’s just a bit too tall on my site.

Is there any chance that we could have an option to configure the height as well as the width – that would be great!

Another issue:
I have installed WP Audio Player 2.0 beta and Blubrry Powerpress Podcast Plugin together.
The player appears on the home page (index.php) after the excerpt or summery of the post. I need it to appear only on the posts. How can I set it up that way? There was no option for this in the option page.

Hi there

I’m running Firefox 3 on WinXP and I was having trouble with never-ending “Buffering…” messages – with version 2.0 beta AND version 1.2.3, both on a fresh install of WP 2.7.1 and an old 2.3.x install.

I traced the problem to the version of Flash Player 10: the latest update (sorry, I didn’t write down the version, but it’s current as of 3 March 2009) seems to fix a bug with MP3 buffering in Firefox 3. I don’t know whether it’s worth mentioning that in your documentation, or if other users are having the same problem, but a Flash update seems to fix it.

Thanks for a beautifully simple, useful plugin!

Dave

Hi,

On the ‘add audio’ button on New Post in wordpress, you have a button that says ‘audio player’ which inserts the [audio:https://… .com] tag.

I’ve found that it’s conflicting with wordpress, in that when you click it the text is inserted into the Link URL field, but then vanishes again (in firefox. in safari, it doesn’t appear at all).

I’ve narrowed this bug down to line 279 of file /wp-includes/js/swfupload/handlers.js :

//$(this).siblings(‘.urlfield’).val( $(this).attr(‘title’) );

I found that if I commented this line out, it fixed the bug, and your ‘audio player’ button worked properly.

Cheers,
Ian Dundas

@innus

I had the same problem. I did the fix you mentioned, but now the other buttons don’t work.

thanks to abird for the updated PHP. I too was having similar problems as many of you.

One thing I noticed now, what happened to the slider? There is now no way to move ahead in a clip. Can I get that back?

Hello,

I’m sure this a dumb question, but oh well. Can you use the stand alone version of this in WordPress? For two hours now I can not get it to work.

I am trying to have a player on the “music” page of my site; it’s for a band website.

I am not too clear on the install instructions.

“2. Extract and upload the files to your server (only two files are required: audio-player.js and player.swf)”
– Does this mean my WordPress folder?

“3. Include the audio-player.js file in the HEAD section of your html page”
– Is this my Header section in WordPress?

Again, I apologize for the dumb questions, but I am lost.

I noticed that since I’m feeding a podcast from that category (category-casting), for it to work, I must use an absolute URL for the audio file. Other wise the feed gets confused between other links in the post (downloads in my case) and the audio.

Thanks. Very happy with this plugin!