I have a question regarding how to stop MP3’s from auto loading on my page.
Basically I have 10 or more MP3 files on my page. They have been placed there simply by dragging from folder onto the page and that all works fine.
I have set the autostart to false to prevent them from playing automatically but the issue is how to stop them from loading automatically. The reason seems to be that when I go to the page it takes a while to come up (the more MP3’s the more time) and they are all “loading”, as in I can see the player bar move as it loads the file.
Is there a way to stop this so that it doesn’t start loading until the play button is clicked? I have tried adding autohref=“false” and that did not seem to make a difference.
You might try preload=false, but I don’t think that works with the plug-in, only with the HTML5 audio player.
What you’re actually going to want to do here is to either make the audio files open a “player” window, using Spawn New Window or similar, and linking to a player page, or use some form of player (probably flash) to make the audio play.
I really like the One Pixel Out player. It’s very simple to use, and can be integrated neatly into an HTML5 audio control, too. (Just did that for a medical education site.)
If I have some time next weekend, I will try to put an Action together to make it go in Freeway. If you want to get started on it, there’s a nice walk-through here: Tutorial for Flash MP3 Player although it presumes familiarity with hand-coding.
Walter
On Nov 1, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Greg Fowler wrote:
I have a question regarding how to stop MP3’s from auto loading on my page.
Here’s a project I did using Spawn New Window and Quicktime. Avoiding Flash was a consideration, as well as requiring extra area for detailed text per each title. I was unable to find any “jukebox” type player (Flash or otherwise) that allowed for these details for each selection.