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audio players for Iweb

I have a music website with IWEB. Most visitors don't have quicktime (ala PC users). Are there any other audio players that are more universal that are also compatible that I could use ?
Also is there no way to get rid of that graphic box when you drag and drop an audio file onto a page aside from hiding it ? Thanx

Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Oct 31, 2008 11:56 AM

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Nov 2, 2008 7:37 PM in response to Roddy

Other servers.. Thks!

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Nov 2, 2008 8:28 PM in response to Roddy

I downloaded and placed the audio player and player in a folder with some MP3s on my HD where my Iweb is stored. I was able to access the HTML code on the player in the folder and I copied and pasted into my widget on a page. But then it was only HTML text on my published website and and also I lost all my tunes that were previously posted. I just don't get it. What am I'm not doing right ? What is the magic step involved ? I just want a bar that can play a song that most people can have access to not just a few lucky macs. Thanx for all your help.

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Nov 2, 2008 9:26 PM in response to oakmoon

You have to upload the folder to your server or iDisk as I mentioned above.

The code to put in the html snippet box is:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.cosmystic.com/AudioPlayer/player.swf" id="audioplayer1" height="24" width="290">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.cosmystic.com/AudioPlayer/player.swf">
<param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=1&soundFile=http://www.cosmystic.com/AudioPlayer/CajunMan.m p3">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
</object>

This is my code so try it to see if it works then substitute the URLs of your own "player.swf" and the mp3 song file.

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Nov 3, 2008 6:21 AM in response to Roddy

Maybe what I don't understand is how to upload to my server. My server is mobile me.
1. I place player and MP3s into a newly created folder that is under finder/go/web/sites/mywebsite/newfolder
2. Place code in snippet box (change URLs with my own songs) on pages of choice and publish.

Thats it ? I'll try it.

Thanx Roddy for all your help.

Roddy

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Nov 3, 2008 7:58 AM in response to oakmoon

Put whatever folder/files you want to upload onto your desktop.
Go to Finder/Go/iDisk/My iDisk/Web/Sites, open your website folder in this window and drag the folder and/or files from your desktop to this.
If you want to put more than one song per page using this type of player, note that you have to use different player numbers as described at the bottom of this page...

http://www.macloo.com/examples/audio_player/

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Nov 3, 2008 8:34 PM in response to Roddy

Okay so here's where I'm at. I placed a folder with everything in it. I drag and drop into the one folder that is my website. I see it copying. I paste the code changing a few URLs easy enough I suppose. I see a rectangle in the shape of a player- yahoo ! I publish, but there is nothing on my page. I check my HD web folder and the folder that I dragged and dropped has disappeared. I repeat the steps. Again the folder will not stay in my website folder it simply disappears and there is nothing. Any ideas ? Thanx.

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Nov 3, 2008 9:20 PM in response to oakmoon

so now I screwed up my IWEB address,
I changed the name of the folder that my IWEB site was contained on my HD. It read (rob_silkensen) I changed it to read (robsilkensen) to match what I had entered into the snippet. I was thinking it was more like the other examples I had seen where there was no "_" in the name maybe this was the problem. The player appeared I was thrilled. But when I went to visit on the net "We're sorry cannot find the site " So now I have two IWEB folders on my HD that read both ways but one contains all my files and the original contains unfamiliar files.

Nov 4, 2008 1:26 AM in response to Roddy

Roddy wrote:
OK - first of all, where are you publishing - MobileMe or another server?

Hi, I am using other server.
Can you advice me how do I do it. Thanks!

Roddy

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Nov 4, 2008 6:09 AM in response to josephlpw

Basically all you need is a folder on your server that contains the audio player assets - "player.swf" and "audio-player.js" - and your MP3 files.
Create a new folder on your desktop and name it something like AudioPlayer. Copy and paste or drag and drop your MP3 file(s) into this.
Go to ...
http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/
and download the Audio-Player.zip
Open the folder, copy "player.swf" and "audio-player.js" and paste them into the folder with the MP3s.

Using your FTP application, upload this folder to your server and place it in the main folder that contains all your website folders and files.

If you want a really simple way to do this, download the freeware Easy iWeb Publisher....
http://www.plyxim.com/free/
Publish your website to a folder on your desktop, drag your AudioPlayer folder into this and then drag the website folder onto Easy iWeb Publisher.

The URLs that you use in the code are derived from this AudioPlayer folder.....
http://www.mydomainname/AudioPlayer/player.swf
http://www.mydomainname/AudioPlayer/NameOfSong.mp3
....etc.

Roddy

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Nov 4, 2008 6:27 AM in response to oakmoon

If your folder containing the Audio Player and MP3s is in your website folder on your iDisk, every time you publish, you have to upload it again as iWeb will overwrite it.
You can put your AudioPlayer folder into Finder/Go/iDisk/My iDisk/Web/Sites and it will not be overwritten.
The URL will be....
http://web.me.com/username/AudioPlayer
Then the other URLs will be based on this like...

http://web.me.com/username/AudioPlayer/NameOfSong.mp3
http://web.me.com/username/AudioPlayer/player.swf
...etc.

oakmoon Author

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Nov 4, 2008 8:37 PM in response to Roddy

Okay so the folder I created I need to drag and drop into my main website folder on my "Mobile Me server" ? which is my server. I have been using my HD folder. What is FTP and do I have that ?
I will try this. Thanx Roddy.

oakmoon Author

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Nov 4, 2008 9:00 PM in response to oakmoon

Okay so I was able to make a flash player, but there is no volume control or is there ?

Roddy

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Nov 5, 2008 6:39 AM in response to oakmoon

No - this is a SIMPLE audio player!

oakmoon Author

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Nov 5, 2008 6:07 PM in response to Roddy

I understand, its SIMPLE. I'll work with it. Thanx for all your patience and help. Later

Roddy

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Nov 6, 2008 9:19 AM in response to oakmoon

If you want something more sophisticated your can sign up with Snocap and get something like this....

http://roddymckay.com/Jukebox.html

Or try have as look at....

http://www.myflashfetish.com/

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