Select your QT item on your Page
In the Item menu go down to choose Extended
A dialogue box will open showing the extended attributes for your QT file.
You will not have any so you have to create a new one. Click the New button.
The Name should be autostart and the Value false
OK the dialogue boxes
Upload and try it.
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worked like magic.
hah. So simple.
bless you.
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On Nov 22, 2010, at 6:57 PM, aleos wrote:
When I create a new name/pair value, what do I do?
Click once on the MP3 in Freeway, and open the Item / Extended dialog.
Make sure the Make sure the Embed tab is selected. Click on the New…
button, and in the sub-dialog that appears, add the name/value pair
that Dave mentioned using the Name and Value fields of the sub-dialog.
Okay out of the teetering stack of dialogs and test in a browser.
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Make sure the Embed tab is selected.
Thanks Walter I should have said that - fortunately it is the first Tab when it is an mp3.
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Great action Tim! Saves a lot of mucking around with xml files. The only problem I have is that I’m not sure how to add songs after the first one.
Other actions have an action pane which has, say 1-25 but there seems to be no option for this.
Hope you can help.
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If you mean the Yahoo Player then you need a new instance of the action for each track.
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Cheers Dave. Seems a bit clunky, but I’ll give it a go
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If you mean the Yahoo Player then you need a new instance of the action for each track.
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Hi Dick,
It is a bit clunky as the action is defining the link text and tooltip for the sound file. It is also managing the file management for you as well so the sound gets uploaded when the site is published.
You could set the Add media control to URL and point it a page of mp3 links where it will automatically extract the sounds and add them to a playlist for you automatically. You could then add the tracks to the page normally (without the Action) although you would have to upload the tracks manually.
Have a play and let me know how you get on with this.
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Thanks Tim.
Im going to give your suggestion a go. Clunky or not, it beats having to change the xml file that most players use - I think. Will let you know how I get on.
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Hi Dick,
It is a bit clunky as the action is defining the link text and tooltip for the sound file. It is also managing the file management for you as well so the sound gets uploaded when the site is published.
You could set the Add media control to URL and point it a page of mp3 links where it will automatically extract the sounds and add them to a playlist for you automatically. You could then add the tracks to the page normally (without the Action) although you would have to upload the tracks manually.
Have a play and let me know how you get on with this.
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Cheers Dave. Seems a bit clunky, but I’ll give it a go
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Hi Tim,
had a play with your action and appreciate it (as ever). However if you try to click a media in iDevices suddenly nothing will happen :-).
If I add the player “manually”, the iDevices is ignoring the player, but the mp3 stream is (cause of the simple link) playable. This makes me wonder, cause the handcoded one seems to play then as cross-browser as possible.
Unfortunately - the hand coded one has all the nasty stuff that can be easily turned-off via your action so:
Could you either point me on how to turn off this stuff (hack) or could you review the action so it falls back to be a simple mp3 link in order to play them on iStuff as well?
My example page btw:
http://www.kimmich-dm.de/testings/music.php
I did this as a request on my small german forum and the guy doesn’t like the “uggly quick-time grey-bar” - frankly open spoken, I do not really prefer this, too.
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Hi there
I came across this link for an MP3 player that doesn’t require flash
http://cssrevolt.com/upload/files/pimp3/
Given that it uses Freeway favourites Prototype and Scriptaculous I was wondering just how easy it could be to incorporate this in a page or ‘actionise’ it?
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Yes - I have tried Pimp but not had great deal of success with it’s looks or operation in FW
There must be better out there.
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Just bought Freeway Express and am trying to get to grips with designing an online radio station that can play prerecorded features and interviews…this thread has been v. helpful…
Does anybody have experience of doing something like this?
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Tim,
I’d like to offer you some feedback on your Yahoo WebPlayer. First of all, your naming may have been right when you made the action, but it is confusing now. “Yahoo Media Player” is a very different beast, based on Flash. “Yahoo Web Player” is what your action deals with – no Flash or other browser plug-ins required. Therefore, you should change the name to Yahoo WebPlayer."
Next, when I tested your web page in Internet Explorer 8 on WindowsXP, the browser started to DOWNLOAD the file when I clicked on it!
http://www.freewayactions.com/test/yahoo-media-player/
However, when I installed your action and tested my Freeway-generated web page, I found that all was well in IE 8, and the Yahoo WebPlayer interface displays properly. Perhaps your example web page uses an older version of your action that has a bug? Anyway, here is my test page that works fine in Explorer (using your action):
http://www.kiramek.com/21test95/test/test.html
The biggest problem I found is that your action offers two checkbox options that appear to be broken:
• Hide the Yahoo logo
• Hide the Learn More panel
It doesn’t matter if you tick these options or not, the result in the browser is the same. Furthermore, the Yahoo logo only displays when you click the little Play icon or text associated with that icon. Then with the flip-out panel appears at bottom, you then see the Yahoo logo. And the only place you see “Learn More” is if you hold your mouse over the Yahoo logo.
I must say that it would be nice if you could somehow eliminate that PLAYLIST button. It eats up too much vertical space when the user clicks it, so I would prefer not to allow my users to click it at all, if possible. But as of right now, there’s no way to ensure they can’t click on it. Also, if the “webplayer” logo could also be eliminated, the vertical height of that pop-out would be nicely decreased. I don’t know if this is possible for you to hack or not, but they would be significant improvements.
Lastly, I’d like to state why I like this player. Until now, I’ve used Freeway’s HTML box “pass-thru” import for my MP3 and WAV audio files. But sadly, that isn’t true “pass-thru” insofar as it relies on QuickTime in the browser. No big deal for Mac and iOS users, but some of my Windows users hate to be forced to install QuickTime. And to be compatible with iOS, I cannot use Flash solutions. Hence, this Yahoo player is a nice solution in nothing more than HTML and JavaScript. (I just wish that tiny play button icon could be made bigger, and I loath the fact I cannot hide that “playlist” button from my users.)
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Or is it better to use jplayer instead?
jplayer appears to be more customizable. However, it appears to be much harder and more troublesome to implement in an existing Freeway document than using Tim’s Action to get Yahoo WebPlayer to work.
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Hi there, I would be interested too to find an elegant solution for embeeding mp3 files, which can be used by as many users as possible.
Nice thread!
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Tim? Everyone else? Are you folks all still on vacation?
I still seek answers to my previous two posts in this thread.
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Hi James,
Yahoo updated the old Media Player which was based on Flash and migrated over to the JS Web Player. Unfortunately the example at http://www.freewayactions.com/test/yahoo-media-player/ was built using the original Media Player Action and now uses the new Web Player back end. As such some of the features won’t directly match up and what is really needed is a rewrite using the new Web Player code.
Until that happens you can integrate the code manually using the Web Player example code; http://webplayer.yahoo.com/get/
Regards,
Tim.
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Tim,
I’d like to offer you some feedback on your Yahoo WebPlayer. First of all, your naming may have been right when you made the action, but it is confusing now. “Yahoo Media Player” is a very different beast, based on Flash. “Yahoo Web Player” is what your action deals with – no Flash or other browser plug-ins required. Therefore, you should change the name to Yahoo WebPlayer."
Next, when I tested your web page in Internet Explorer 8 on WindowsXP, the browser started to DOWNLOAD the file when I clicked on it!
http://www.freewayactions.com/test/yahoo-media-player/
However, when I installed your action and tested my Freeway-generated web page, I found that all was well in IE 8, and the Yahoo WebPlayer interface displays properly. Perhaps your example web page uses an older version of your action that has a bug? Anyway, here is my test page that works fine in Explorer (using your action):
The biggest problem I found is that your action offers two checkbox options that appear to be broken:
• Hide the Yahoo logo
• Hide the Learn More panelIt doesn’t matter if you tick these options or not, the result in the browser is the same. Furthermore, the Yahoo logo only displays when you click the little Play icon or text associated with that icon. Then with the flip-out panel appears at bottom, you then see the Yahoo logo. And the only place you see “Learn More” is if you hold your mouse over the Yahoo logo.
I must say that it would be nice if you could somehow eliminate that PLAYLIST button. It eats up too much vertical space when the user clicks it, so I would prefer not to allow my users to click it at all, if possible. But as of right now, there’s no way to ensure they can’t click on it. Also, if the “webplayer” logo could also be eliminated, the vertical height of that pop-out would be nicely decreased. I don’t know if this is possible for you to hack or not, but they would be significant improvements.
Lastly, I’d like to state why I like this player. Until now, I’ve used Freeway’s HTML box “pass-thru” import for my MP3 and WAV audio files. But sadly, that isn’t true “pass-thru” insofar as it relies on QuickTime in the browser. No big deal for Mac and iOS users, but some of my Windows users hate to be forced to install QuickTime. And to be compatible with iOS, I cannot use Flash solutions. Hence, this Yahoo player is a nice solution in nothing more than HTML and JavaScript. (I just wish that tiny play button icon could be made bigger, and I loath the fact I cannot hide that “playlist” button from my users.)
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Tim, thanks for you reply. Unfortunately, “integrating the code manually” doesn’t solve the problems I discussed in my previous post. Namely, the elimination of the PLAYLIST button (which eats up too much vertical space when opened) and the elimination of the “webplayer” logo (to decrease the vertical height of the player).
Furthermore, in some cases, that slide out controller at the bottom of the screen is unnecessary and unwanted. It would be nice if there was a way to just click the tiny play icon to start the audio playing, and then click it again (which pauses the audio). But right now, once you click the tiny play icon, that slide out always slides out!
So I think there is sufficient reason to have an updated Action that would address these failings of the current player. As it stands now, I won’t use the current player because I cannot control the aforementioned features.
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i am working on getting this without the list of all the songs at the top. Notice the player has a playlist of 6 songs…
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