Hi. I have 6 mp3’s on my site which were working fine a few months back (I haven’t done anything with the site for a while). Got an email today from someone who said all tracks play simutaneously when the page is opened. They didn’t do this before and I have extended > embed > autoplay > false set up on them.
When I checked the page in Safari, the mp3’s aren’t even there any more!
Firstly, how can these things happen when I haven’t gone near the site in months and secondly what can I do to fix it.
Heading off on a tangent from this one, I also have a couple of sites
where the fonts have reverted to Times and the layout’s gone all
jumbled despite nothing having been done to them for about a year or so.
Must be the hosting gremlins at work. Sorry to hijack, just puzzled,
as you are, as to what’s changed.
Trev
On 6 May 2011, at 13:04, James wrote:
Hi. I have 6 mp3’s on my site which were working fine a few months
back (I haven’t done anything with the site for a while). Got an
email today from someone who said all tracks play simutaneously when
the page is opened. They didn’t do this before and I have extended >
embed > autoplay > false set up on them.
When I checked the page in Safari, the mp3’s aren’t even there any
more!
Firstly, how can these things happen when I haven’t gone near the
site in months and secondly what can I do to fix it.
Did QuickTime update in the interim on your computer? New version of
iTunes or anything? If you haven’t published the site in that time,
the only change could be on your computer, not the server.
Walter
On May 6, 2011, at 8:04 AM, James wrote:
Got an email today from someone who said all tracks play
simutaneously when the page is opened. They didn’t do this before
and I have extended > embed > autoplay > false set up on them.
When I checked the page in Safari, the mp3’s aren’t even there any
more!
Both Quicktime and iTunes have been updated since I last did anything with the site, but how would that effect the files that are already online?
@Trev. I’ve had font changing issues in the past too. Just changed font and re-uploaded and all was fine. Not ideal though, and I’m puzzled as to how these things happen
It wouldn’t affect the files on the server, just your ability to see
them. Could you post a link to the trouble page, so we can see what’s
happening there?
Walter
On May 6, 2011, at 9:00 AM, James wrote:
Both Quicktime and iTunes have been updated since I last did
anything with the site, but how would that effect the files that are
already online?
@Trev. I’ve had font changing issues in the past too. Just changed
font and re-uploaded and all was fine. Not ideal though, and I’m
puzzled as to how these things happen
They are all there, they’re just taking an age to load. The reason you
aren’t seeing them now, and you were earlier, is probably down to
those files having been in your browser’s cache earlier, and expired
now.
First off, your background image is most of 1 MB in size. Careful use
of JPEG compression and blur will reduce that considerably. Also
consider using an image you can tile to reduce this footprint further.
Then your MP3s are all loading into the page, and they’re huge. I
would recommend that you look at a Flash-based MP3 player instead of
placing the actual files in the page. Such a player can either take a
list of files (so there’s one “jukebox” control with all the possible
songs) or can be file-by-file. But the benefit either way is that the
MP3s are not “in” the page, and they don’t occupy any space in the
loading queue. Then, when a visitor clicks on one or another of the
files, they will see the spinny thing or the loading bar and then the
song will start to “chase-play”, loading and playing, staying just
ahead of the buffer.
If you don’t want to use that trick, then use Spawn New Window to load
one of 6 different tiny player pages (make these in Freeway, have
nothing but the music file on each page, maybe a “close” button or
some branding graphics) and have SNW pop one open as a little daughter
window whenever a visitor clicks on a link or graphic to play that
particular song.