wynne

Problem solved thanks to someone on the Audio Player forum who suggested i try replacing the plug-in with a fresh copy. sound quality back! thanks again to those who responded.

Hmmm. Thanks to you for listening, too. I’m gonna wait until my ftp access is restored and try uploading a new one to see if it also sounds worse online than it does from my desktop. And I’ll listen from another computer through a different internet connection when i get a chance. There’s definitely something happening to what i’m hearing that’s not happening on the original files. But it is quite subtle, and I don’t mean to insult your listening acuity, but maybe if you listen to online sound most of the time you might not notice the artifacts i’m talking about…?

Thanks also for the confirmation about FF.

Thanks for listening. Did you listen on good speakers in a good listening environment? I’m hearing a definite compression-type buzzing on the sounds which is not there on my original mp3s. It’s not glaringly obvious, but i’m a sound artist, so it’s important to me that the sound is as good as I can make it. I suppose it’s possible that this is just an artifact of the internet that I’ve never noticed before, but I’m pretty sure I’ve listened this closely before and not noticed a degradation of the sound when played from the site as compared to the sound of the actual files.

I wasn’t aware of an issue with Firefox 2 – I’ve just tested it myself and it seems to work ok, though i have to click twice on the play button instead of just once as in Safari.

Not sure what you mean by suggesting a conflict with coolplayer.js. If I’m not using any other player, should i just remove the coolplayer plugin or is that required, too?

It seems that the host reset all the passwords “for security reasons”, so i’m hoping when i get the host login details from the guy who set up the site the problem will be solved. Fingers crossed, thanks for your help.

I’m aware that the login is not the same as the wordpress one, and I’m trying the same ftp login and password that has always worked in the past. But i shall try to get in touch with the host (if i can get that info from the person who set it all up for us!) to see if they can shed any light.

Thanks for your reply. I am using the same ftp login and password i’ve always used, and in fact have tried resetting the password from within wordpress admin (or more accurately, i re-entered the same password). As i said, i have no problem with my admin login. Some of the issues i see on the forum to do with ftp access seem to be caused when people have upgraded, so i’m assuming that upgrading wordpress will not solve my problem.

Nothing has changed, as far as the site setup goes, since the last time i logged in via Fetch to upload files.

I’ve also tried a different ftp application, with no luck. And of course i’ve tried connecting to other sites via Fetch, and it worked fine.