audio shortcode just not working

Please provide a link to a page on your site where we can see this. Thanks.

How are you entering the shortcode?

I’ve found that some audio files just don’t play — due to encoding or other things — and may have to be tweaked with ffmpeg or something similar.

Thank you for your speedy reply. The page was not yet published but I went ahead and published it so you can see it. I just installed the theme, haven’t customized or anything so please excuse the mess.

I entered
[audio https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SAhbBS1uKm9Yh3wvJkJZ3U-aNKvIUPEi]

The mp3 file is hosted on my google drive and it plays fine
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SAhbBS1uKm9Yh3wvJkJZ3U-aNKvIUPEi/view

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).

I also tried the URL ….google.com/file/d/….. no luck

The shortcode should be

[audio src="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SAhbBS1uKm9Yh3wvJkJZ3U-aNKvIUPEi" ]

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Audio_Shortcode

Though I’m not sure about whether the browser will recognize it properly without a file extension.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).

Well, I tried what you suggested Hmmmm no way to put a picture. Well now it just shows the URL of the audio file but if you click it it links back to the blog post. I was expecting a little audio player. Maybe I should host it somewhere that it puts the mp3 on the end of the link?

Here is the post I thought I put it in the last comment
https://blog.colleenkitchen.com/index.php/2018/08/09/genre-bender/

The file is only 2.7MB, so you could just upload it to your site and insert via Add Media.

I escaped the quotes. Maybe I shouldn’t have done that. And I am in the text, not the visual editor, because of the Quara code. I wanna know why the quora block appears twice too since the code is only there once. But the more pressing problem is to get an audio player EMBEDDED in my blog posts.

I unescaped the quotes. It’s still just a link…. now the link actually goes to the mp3 file (could have done that with just a simple link) but I want an audio player INLINE.

https://bertha.sterndata.com/post-format-audio/

The code is

[audio https://bertha.sterndata.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/originaldixielandjazzbandwithalbernard-stlouisblues.mp3]

I would really rather host most of the non recurring media offsite. 2.7MB is not much but I plan to have a large amount of audio and video files in the blog when I launch it, and my VPS is rather small. I set the filesize limit for uploads to 2MB. I could upload it as a MIDI in this case, is their a MIDI player plugin?

If you can host it someplace where you can reference it by a file name with an extension, I suspect it would work.

For example, dropbox shares a link as https://www.dropbox.com/s/xxxx/originaldixielandjazzbandwithalbernard-stlouisblues.mp3.

You can create a free dropbox account and try it out.

OK I have a free dropbox with some space. But before I try that I need to troubleshoot, so just for testing purposes I will upload one to the blog host server, if that doesn’t work then we have a bigger issue. I’ll get back to you and let you know how that worked. And THANK YOU FOR STICKING WITH ME. I hope this thread will be useful for others when we finally get it solved.

Tried the dropbox Yes the file name has an mp3 extention, but STILL, THAT didn’t work. It still didn’t produce a player. Now I have another problem, every time I try to update it does it but it moans and groans about some expired link.

If you have a new problem, please start a new topic.

I wasn’t looking for help on the new problem in this thread. Sorry… if I was actually stating a problem looking for help I’d be way more precise. ?? It was just explaining why I’ve been otherwise engaged trying to fix that one that seems more basic, and haven’t been able to pay attention to the one under discussion here. There is already a thread about it I’m all over it. as time allows. Thanks!