[Plugin: WPaudio MP3 Player] Bugs and suggestions

I have installed the plugin and tried both the link with wpaudio class and the short code and in both cases no joy. I just get a hyperlink. The one link with wpaudio class opens a QT player and plays. The one with the short code does nothing.

Here is what I have in my page (html view):

Music has a powerful ability to touch our hearts and our souls.  This is a list of the music that makes the soundtrack of my life.

<a class="wpaudio" href="https://remembrances.curtis-assoc.com/audio/BringTheRain.mp3">Bring the Rain - Mercy Me</a>

lorum ipsum

[wpaudio url="https://remembrances.curtis-assoc.com/audio/AllAboutYourHeart.mp3" text="All About Your Heart - Mindy Gledhill" dl="0"]

The page can be viewed at https://remembrances.curtis-assoc.com/about/music/

I have tried the default theme with the same results.

Thanks,

–Marshall

Marshall, have you tried disabling your other plugins?

Hey Todd,

I’m having an issue where there is a lag in the links formatting correctly. It will show them as plain text before loading the play button and resizing the font-size.

Here’s a link: https://douggpound.com/new/?page_id=13

Thanks in advance, awesome plug-in.

PS you look a little like “Walt White” from Breaking Bad: https://www.twofedoras.com/images/hpotw/Heisenberg.jpg

Hi Todd,

First off, I love this plug-in. Simple, customizable and functional. Very nicely done!

However, since upgrading to the latest version I am having a similar issue to eatyourguitar and maybe tcplugin. In my case, sometimes things seem to time out while loading the page and the only option offered is the plain text download link. It loads and works pefectly about 60% of the time in Firefox 3.5.5 on WinXP, but not ever in IE7.

I’m using a custom theme that I made, but wp_head and wp_footer are both included. I switched to the default theme, and got the same results. Any ideas on how to make it work consistently?

Thanks!
George

George Irwin
100 Country Songs

Works great, thanks for sharing!

(the only gripe I have is that CSS done inside wpaudio.php which makes it somewhat difficult to style)

Great plugin, nice and clean. A couple of suggestions:

1) Is there a complete listing of the shortcode options somewhere? Are url, dl, and text the only options available? I’d like to see some additional options that would allow me to set the formatting for an individual link, like fs=”12px” if I want to set the font size for a particular link to 12px, but keep the other links the default size.

2) The progress bar seems to depend on the length of the text. It makes it harder to exactly position the slider on files that are long in duration but where the text is just a short word. For example, if I have a recording that’s 45 minutes long and the text is Play, then it gets really hard to position the slider to, say, the 10 minute mark unless I lengthen the text to Play this long file to generate a longer progress bar. I’d like to see an option where the progress bar can be set to a specific number of pixels. It would also give the progress bars a more uniform look when I have multiple recordings clustered close together.

By the way, I haven’t had any problems using recordings other than 44100 hz; I’ve got MP3s at 16000 hz & 48000 hz, and they play just fine.

Ron

Hi,

Amazing plugin. Works like a charm.

There’s only one thing that’s bugging me. When using it together with stacking DIV’s (like Tooltips for text/links) the MP3 Player always ends up on top of everything. Is there a way to solve this with wmode=”opaque” like ordinary embedded Flash obejcts?

Keep up the great work!

Robert

Hi guys – first of all, thanks for great plug in, when it was working, it was brilliant!

But, and here’s the thing! Afraid it is behaving weirdly for me and I can’t seem to work out why. Last year was using it fine on my site https://www.shotwithsound.com, then it stopped working, and it took me until this weekend to get the time to look into it… I’ve played around and got the thing close to working, but with two problems – first, there are two play icons visible when the player loads, and secondly, it won’t actually play the MP3 – it loads, the download link appears, but it doesn’t actually play!

As I said, the site is https://www.shotwithsound.com, theme is cleanr with a fair few modifications I have made to it – any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated thanks

Nic

Please post questions to https://wpaudio.com/forum/

Thanks!

I fixed a problem I had where the video was not playing and only displayed ‘NaN:NaN’ instead of the duration. I found out that the soundManager.onready function was not getting the url. So I added the following around line 48:

wpaudio.js – changed this:

var url = (jQuery(this).attr('class') &&...
// Check for dl - change link to # or to dl param

to this:

var url = (jQuery(this).attr('class') &&...
if (!url) url = wpa_urls[wpa_id];
// Check for dl - change link to # or to dl param

apparently, there’s no way to disable downloads using the mp3 link, as in:
Artist – Song

i enabled “convert all links” in the plugin options, and, as i’m inserting the links dynamically in a template page, i can’t use the normal content tags, so i had to disable all downloads in wpaudio.js

well, it’s just a thought to help improve this great plugin
thanks for the good work

I like this neat little player, and it was easy for a newbie to install and use. Thank you.

I want to add a vote for the inclusion of a Stop button. The reason is that my audio files are speeches and can go for 30-60 minutes. People might click for a listen, then decide they want to stop and move on. However, using the Pause button doesn’t stop the mp3 from continuing to download, and people might be annoyed, and certainly slowed down, while 15 megs finds it’s way into their computers when they don’t want it. The only way I currently can see to stop the download from continuing is to navigate away from the page.

So might a Stop button be worth considering? Thanks.

I get the impression from Todd’s post several spaces up that he doesn’t come here anymore, which is a pity. I don’t want to have to jump through all the hoops of registering to join his forum just to make a suggestion.