Thanks for such a great player! I really like the playlist feature, is tricky if existent in yahoo media player. Yours is quite complex in how much it can do, but also very easy to customize. Kudos!

I’m wondering if there is way to have several playlist boxes on one page, such as if I am demo’ing sample songs from two different bands and want them clumped each in their own box, per band.

When I code it as two different div’s, the JS still automatically takes the second list of song links and puts them into the first playlist.

[Showing example for now at: http://jazzman.ipsumwebdesign.com/demos/ . Source code shows that there are two "myplayer" div's.]

Thoughts or workarounds? Thanks very much!
-Catherine

best regards,

Andre Matos from Brazil

Anyway to your problem. I could reproduce the issues you were seeing when I clicked on the play/pause button of the player on this page. However, I think I’ve been able to fix it.

I’m not sure if you were on the latest version of the code as described in a previous comment. If not then you may have to make a few (small) changes to your page to use the fix I have uploaded as it uses a slightly different way of initialising the player. Instructions on where to download the update and the steps you will need to go through are given below.

First, download the latest version from this link, replacing your existing files. If you are using the version posted in the previous comment then you are done. Otherwise if you have been using the older version (that is, if you clicked the big download buttons) you will have a line in your HTML that look something like:

var _MyPlayerLocation_ = "js/myplayer";


This needs to be replaced with the following (where location matches the location you supplied above):


var _MyPlayerSettings_ = {
location: "js/myplayer",
startTrackClass: "play_me_first",
startVolume: 19
};


There are obviously a few new settings here, you can ignore if you want – simply delete the lines with “startTrackClass” and “startVolume” or comment them out.

Hopefully this will sort the issues you had with the player. Thanks for commenting and trying it out. Hope the fix works.

I’m afraid this is the way it is. Until the file has loaded it can only make an estimate as to the time. This may have changed since I worked on this but it was a limitation of flash – and I can only assume the mp3 format.

>2. When switching between tracks, either by clicking on different
>tracks directly or by clicking the next button, the player seems
>to wait until it has finished downloading all previous tracks and
>then it plays the selected track, which results in a significant delay.

Not sure what the problem is here. I’ve tried this on my own site that uses the player and I can’t reproduce the problem. Can you let me know which browser and version you are using so that I can try it out? Feel free to email me a link to your site if it’s publicly available and I can see if I see the problem, details of my email address is in the about me page.

http://www.domain.com/file.php?id=3

When I do this, the files play, but with two problems:

1. The time limit doesn’t show correctly until the whole file has loaded.
2. When switching between tracks, either by clicking on different tracks directly or by clicking the next button, the player seems to wait until it has finished downloading all previous tracks and then it plays the selected track, which results in a significant delay.

I have tried various ways of delivering the audio directly to the player, but none of them seem to work. I can post the code that I am using if you would like, but I was hoping there might be some minor change that you can make to the JS that would help me out.

Thanks in advance,
Chris

Wow, thank you very much for this!

I have tested this new version and it works great! Unfortunately, I tested it in the unique platform I hoped to use it and it’s not going to work there. It’s at no fault of your own; it seems the in-game web browser in Team Fortress 2 and other Source engine games doesn’t support JavaScript. I’m surprised, since they do support Flash applications! Very well, then…

So, I’m sorry I cannot put it to use like I hoped. I’ll keep an eye on things, though, and if they ever add JavaScript support I’ll put your great program to use.