Hoffman, I just installed the action via the link you provided. Both in Freeway’s Preview and in the browser, I get the following popup error when the page loads:
Adobe® Flash® Player has stopped a potentially unsafe operation. The following local application on your computer or network:
/Users/james/Documents/Web/… (path to the HTML file of the page being opened)
is trying to communicate with this Internet-enabled location:
Hoffman, I clicked on your link to hotpotatoes and I didn’t get any Flash error dialog. I guess that means the error vanishes once you upload the page, but you get the error dialog before you upload to the server? Seems strange if so. But if not so, then it makes no sense why I get that error dialog on my computer.
But regardless, no, what you are doing is not exactly why I seek to accomplish. Have a look at my company web page here, and then click on the sirens: http://visionsecurity.jp/en/sirens/index.html
Now you can see why I don’t want that slide-out controller to appear at all. I just want a link to the audio file, and having that little Play/Pause button to the left of it is nice. I just want to have audio files play on any device, so it doesn’t matter if the user has QuickTime or Windows Media Player or any such proprietary software. I just want a universal means of getting audio files to play, in a way that doesn’t take up unnecessary space.
i never got a flash error or any error in the process. But if you seek to not have that player come out then I think this is not the one for you anyway. I think there is no way of not having the big player come out- that is part of it I believe.
I clicked your sirens and the audio appeared on top (Scripty lightbox2?). They played perfectly over here…
In the past, some Windows users complained that they had to install QuickTime to hear the audio; hence my quest to see if there would be a cross-platform audio player solution that would avoid such problems. In other words, audio should “just play” regardless of platform and shouldn’t force the user to install anything to play it.
I’ve not heard anything from Windows7 users though, so perhaps MS fixed that in their latest OS update.
Flash security settings can act really funny when you’re opening a local file. I had to do all sorts of hoop-jumping to make a CD-ROM work correctly with Flash content, and not that long ago. Basically, the answer was to make a warning page for Windows users, explaining where to turn the security settings down for just this one disk.
James, see if SoundCloud will work for you. It has a very nice cross platform player that deploys in an iframe, and they handle all the media transcoding for you. Downside is that your content is shared free with the world (you lose some control over distribution) but if it’s just public content anyway, that shouldn’t be a problem.
Walter
On Apr 19, 2012, at 12:44 AM, JDW wrote:
In the past, some Windows users complained that they had to install QuickTime to hear the audio; hence my quest to see if there would be a cross-platform audio player solution that would avoid such problems. In other words, audio should “just play” regardless of platform and shouldn’t force the user to install anything to play it.
I’ve not heard anything from Windows7 users though, so perhaps MS fixed that in their latest OS update.
Thanks for the tip, Walter. At first I was wondering how this Sound “cloud” was better than DropBox or any other online storage. But I see that they have a nifty player: http://soundcloud.com/tour
The player is simple, small and easy to use – exactly what I’ve been looking for.
But is it Flash, JavaScript or something else? I ask because I would prefer to keep my sites 100% clean and free of Flash.
It’s a JavaScript player on most browsers, and I am not sure but I think it might fall back to flash in the few places where JavaScript doesn’t do the trick. The beautiful thing is that they host the media for you and take care of encoding the files for you. I uploaded an AIFF file (full CD quality) and it turned it into something more prosaic.
Walter
On Apr 19, 2012, at 8:28 PM, “JDW” email@hidden wrote:
Thanks for the tip, Walter. At first I was wondering how this Sound “cloud” was better than DropBox or any other online storage. But I see that they have a nifty player: http://soundcloud.com/tour
The player is simple, small and easy to use – exactly what I’ve been looking for.
But is it Flash, JavaScript or something else? I ask because I would prefer to keep my sites 100% clean and free of Flash.
From reading that page it would appear that once you upload an audio file, you can then get the iFrame code for it. I assume we then just drop that code into a Freeway markup item to add it anywhere we want on the page?
Yes. Although you need to take care with a Markup Item that it doesn’t end up inside a P tag by mistake. If you place the player using the iFrame Action, and just copy the src of the iframe code they give you – not the entire iframe itself – then you will be sure to have a valid page.
From reading that page it would appear that once you upload an audio file, you can then get the iFrame code for it. I assume we then just drop that code into a Freeway markup item to add it anywhere we want on the page?
Did you use an ftp app to upload these folders? If so how is your server configured? Does it have a public_html folder or a htdocs folder?
If either of these then that is where these 2 folders should go.
David
Hello David,
Thanks for your great support. Actually i just wanted to ask a question. My website has a folder called Resource, should i drop the Skins and mp3 Folder inside this Folder?
My website has a folder called Resource, should i drop the Skins and mp3 Folder inside this Folder?
No - FW manages the content of the Resources folder and you should not add anything to it unless you know implicitly what you are doing.
There actions in FW that will allow you to add files into the Resources folder (Extra Resouirces for one) but using the action ensures that FW is ‘aware’ of those added files.
Thanks for your quick respond. But am having an issue that the skin won’t load. See www.anessyacoubi.com. I have uploaded the skin and mp3 Folder to the web server and nothing is happening. When i check on my Web Inspector i got an error
So i can finally locate the issue. The problem was that >skin/nobius_blue/… was set to skin/nobuis_mk2. So i could locate the mistake. So my Web Inspector doesn’t bring up skin error code. But now Player stuck on loading skin xml. What to do next.