[Plugin: MP3-jPlayer] Titles not showing when playlisting from a folder

  • Hi MP3-jPlayer is a great plugin, and perfect for what I need – I’m setting up multiple players with the playlists coming from different folders. However it doesn’t show the Media titles, even though the setting is turned on to use titles if they are present. The “remove file extension” option works fine on these playlists though.

    I’ve no idea if this is an issue or not, I’m fairly new to WP development, but wondered if it had anything to do with the fact that my MP3s are in non-standard WordPress directories and it’s bypassing the Media Library settings? (I’m uploading via Media Library so they have titles etc but have used “Upload Relocate” plugin to organise the playlist directories.) Any help appreciated.

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  • Plugin Author simon.ward

    (@simonward-1)

    Hi, this sounds like an issue with the files not being recognised as being in the library…

    If you can’t see them on the settings page then the plugin doesn’t know about them so it would prob be an issue with the relocation.

    If you can see them on the settings page then they should be playable with their correct media library titles but only if:
    1) you are using just the filenames to specify them in playlists, don’t use the full url to play from the library.
    2) the ‘upload relocate’ plugin has rewritten the urls correctly.

    Simon

    Thread Starter RhiatTantrwm

    (@rhiattantrwm)

    Hi Simon,

    Thanks for your reply, I can see the files in the library on the settings page but it’s bringing up 0 under the default folder path which I set just as the uploads directory – assuming it would pick up files in directories within that (given that wordpress would be default file them on year/date), but it’s not picking up anything there.

    The files are only being relocated so that I could set up MP3 players from different directories on certain pages – which in themselves work just fine, although the widget setting also shows “there are no MP3’s in this directory” so I guess it must be upload relocate not properly writing something to the database – although it has moved the physical MP3 files on the server.

    The MP3s are pretty well named, so I guess it’s no major problem to have the filenames popping up as they are – but then I could perhaps set the players up with just filenames instead of using the directories – only avoided doing that so that the person updating could change the track listing easily… So it’s no major issue, depends which user I want to be friendlier to I guess! ??

    Plugin Author simon.ward

    (@simonward-1)

    The default folder setting doesn’t have anything to do with the library files as such, it’s really for easy picking up of files that have been ftp’d to a folder manually (ie. files not registered in the library). It wont pick up tracks from subfolders which is why you see 0 for the default folder, so probably the upload relocate plugin is doing it’s thing just fine.

    Currently when you use ‘FEED:/folder’ method the plugin won’t look in the library to see if they’re also registered there, which is why the titles remain as the filenames.

    probably the easiest way for you is to name the files as you’d like for the titles before you upload them into the library, space characters seem to be fine in filenames, so doing that plus ticking the ‘hide .mp3 extension’ should get you there. The files will be pulled from the folder in alphabetical order though so you may also want to add a number into the filename to control the playlist order if needed.

    Simon

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