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Been trying to get to the bottom of the problem were having playing MP3 files at our new site. Im hoping that someone might be able to have a quick look to help me determine the best way to sort out the probem. Otherwise im left to the site designers lack of mac knowledge and a less than ideal situation for a music store.
The script that opens the audio file to be played directs the file to the users default player, in windows obviously the 'media player' starts and plays the file without problem.
This is the source of the window that his script opens:
<link href="css_js/default.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<title>Ape#*$!</title>
<body bgcolor="#000000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<div align="center"><img src="images/logo.gif"></div>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td valign="middle" align="center">
<div align="left">
<OBJECT CLASSID="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,4,5,715" TYPE="application/x-oleobject" WIDTH=176 HEIGHT=72 align="middle" STANDBY="Loading Microsoft® Windows Media Player components..." ID="Player">
<PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="sound/atest015b.mp3">
<PARAM NAME="AnimationatStart" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="ShowControls" VALUE="1">
<PARAM NAME="ShowStatusBar" VALUE="1">
<PARAM NAME="TransparentatStart" VALUE="1">
<PARAM NAME="ShowDisplay" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="AutoStart" VALUE="1">
<PARAM NAME="ShowCaptioning" value="0">
<PARAM NAME="ShowTrackbar" value="1">
<EMBED SRC="simple.asx?ID=4658" WIDTH=176 HEIGHT=72 AutoStart=1 align="middle" TYPE="application/x-mplayer2" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=windows&sbp=mediaplayer&ar=Media&sba=Plugin&" NAME="Player" ShowControls=1 ShowDisplay=0 ShowStatusBar=1 ShowTrackbar=1 AnimationatStart=0></embed>
</OBJECT>
</div>
</td>
<td valign="top"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td> <table width="100%" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td class = "smalltext">
<b>Artist:</b> Acid Test Promo <br>
<b>Track:</b> Ape#*$! <br>
<b>Label:</b> Acid Test Pressings <br>
<b>Catno:</b> ATEST015 <br>
<b>Price:</b> £4.68 <br>
<br>Having audio problems? <a href=sound/atest015b.mp3>Click here</a>
The Mac opens the new box to initialize the system player which by default is the quicktime player on OS X (which plays MP3 without issue) however something in the script prevents quicktime from finding the file automatically and loading it into the original window directly. You either have no response or follow the 'having audio problems' link which immediately plays the audio file inside the correct window. The only downside is that if you want to listen to another clip you have to close the player window and repeat the process 'having audio problems' other wise nish!
Being an avid Mac supporter of many years i would ideally like to be able to suggest to the designer that a change in his script would accomodate us.
I would be very grateful indeed of any suggestions that may help from a mac user who may have encountered such an issue in the past and could offer suggestions for me to put to our designer.
Please, any further information or a demonstartion of the events please do not hesitate to contact me. daverandall@mac.com
Thanking you in advance
I believe your problem lies with the syntax, use True or False rather then 1 or 0 like this:
<param name="autoplay" value="true">
hope this helps.
