[Plugin: Audio Player] Version 2.0 beta released

@deuced:

I really don’t know. As far as playing mp3s is concerned, there is nothing I can think of that my player does differently to others. There is only one way of loading an mp3 file and playing it in the Flash Player. All I can suggest is you give it a try and see what happens ??

My gut feeling however, is that my player won’t be a good candidate for playing streams.

Let me know what you find out.

Martin

Well it works with streams as all flash players i ve tested and it does have the flash memory leak issue which is not a problem when playing mp3 files (which have a specific length) but when playing a stream it’s like a never-ending mp3 so i thought if there could be a parameter telling it to stop and reconnect after X minutes but also throw away it’s cashed file and start over from the point it previously stopped. There would be a gup between but unnoticeable to stream users and better than a crashed browser.
But anyway, what im seeking is too much since your player really does more than well whats has been developed to do and streaming is a different approach.

I’m having a bit of a nightmare with this ??

I was using beta 2 quite happily (I think) and upgraded to beta 4. Everything was fine in Firefox, for IE7 was giving me “Internet Explorer Cannot Open the Internet Site- Operation Aborted” error. Disabling the plugin prevented the error.

So I downgraded back to beta 2, but since then nothing works! I now get the “Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 6 or above) is required to play this audio clip. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.” error. I know it’s not a browser issue because I checked my site on Browsershots. Besides, I have two other flash objects on that page which display fine.

Beta 3 gives me the same error message, as (perversely) now does beta 4 (except the flash requirements have gone up to 9.

Then I realised that the SVN is wrong! The assets folder of the SVN is missing player.swf – which might well explain why the old versions wouldn’t work ;-), and have media-upload.js, swfobject.js and a different version of mootools.

So back to beta 4 (from the zip file) and all is well. I think the initial problem was caused by my not deleting the old files before installing the new ones.

So sorry for the ramble, but I was typing as I was trouble-fixing. The moral of the story is for end-users to delete the old version before updating, and for you to make sure the SVN is correct.

Thanks!

I had the same issue as above after upgrading from Beta2 to Beta4.

I did a clean upgrade, by deleting then installing, not simply overwriting. IE 7 then gave the “cannot open internet site” error, and failed to render the site.

https://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/04/23/what-happened-to-operation-aborted.aspx

I removed Beta4 and re-installed Beta2 and now the problem is gone and the site will actually render in IE 7 once again. Definitely an IE Bug that needs to be worked around. Let me know if I can be of any further assistance. Looking forward to the final release.

Thanks for the excellent plugin.

I’m having trouble with transparency. I’m using the 2.0 beta 4 standalone player. I’ve got this in my header:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/audio/audio-player.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
            AudioPlayer.setup("/audio/player.swf", {
            width: 290,
        	   initialvolume: 100,
	   transparentbg: "yes"
            });
</script>

Version 1.2.3 works fine.

@msandford:

Sorry about that. The transparency option should be transparentpagebg and not transparentbg (I just corrected it on the website).

Martin

@mark8barnes:

1: I upgraded the swfobject library bundled with Audio Player. The previous version apparently had a few issues that could make IE7 crash. Download the latest version (still beta 4) and reinstall.

2: Everything is fine in the SVN repository. It doesn’t reflect the final structure of the plugin because I use a ANT script to build the plugin. What you need is what is in the zip file. Never use what is in the SVN repository if you don’t know how to run ANT build scripts.

3: Because the plugin is in beta, it is important that you delete all files before upgrading to the latest version. When the plugin is released officially, you will be able to use the automatic upgrade feature if you are running WP 2.5.1

Martin

@robc:

I just uploaded a new version (still beta 4) here: https://wpaudioplayer.com/download

Can you try it and tell me whether it fixed the IE problem? Remember to clear your browser cache.

Martin

Hi Martin,

Top audio player, I’m using it standalone and encountering a problem setting the buffering. It seems that the audio starts to play for a second or two then the buffering kicks in.

I’ve tried adjusting the buffer time setting which seems to work fine, but I just can’t get it to buffer straight off the start when pressing play. It always starts first, then buffers. It won’t just won’t properly pre-buffer.

I’m testing this on our local webserver and using bandwidth limiting to check it out on low speed connections.

@afromaiko:

This sounds pretty strange. I’m tempted to say that this is happening because of your local webserver setup but it doesn’t really make sense. Can you give me more details about your server setup and especially what you are using to limit the bandwidth? Bandwidth throttling tools can do strange things.

Martin

@doryphores

at first, thanks for the plugin. its very cool and usable. well, but somethings strange for me. everythings fine & working but it still renders the

“Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.”

message. dont know why. as i said it works but shows that message. any ideas? thx in advance.

@frau_schmidt:

Normally, if this message shows, you don’t have the correct Flash Player installed on your browser. Go to the Adobe website to install the latest player: https://www.adobe.com/

If this still doesn’t work, post a link to an example page where this is happening.

Martin

@doryphores

Transparency is fine now, thanks.

I’ve found that titles/artists that contain escaped characters such as & aren’t displaying correctly? If the string was Hello & World it would just display Hello.

Also, is it possible to make is so only one player can be “playing” at any one time? So if I have a page with 5 players and one is already playing, clicking another will stop the first. At the moment it’s possible for all the files to be playing at once!

Thanks for the great work. Really is a great bit of code.

@msandford:

The titles/artists system is a bit experimental at the moment. I’ll look into it.

As for your second point, you shouldn’t have that problem. The open/close system is built in. Could you post a link to an example page where this is happening?

Martin

Hey Martin,

thx for taking some time on my problem. I sure checked my version before. I even reinstalled the latest one but i still got that massage. Well, if you dont see one it would be fine for me…

Take a look:
the link

thx again.