playing mp3 files using ep player

[blackwhite]

I have numerous albums on my site each with 12 or so songs.  It is too much to add the audio player for each song.  I want to be able to click on a link that opens up an audio player such as "E-Phonic MP3 Player" with a playlist of all songs on that album which the visitor can play.  

I downloaded the "E-Phonic MP3 Player", read their documentation and tried very hard to figure out how to implement this in Antenna but I am very confused.   I tried pop up, flash, and visual html, but I don't understand where I'm failing.  

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

-I'm not even sure how to implement the audio player in antenna as a pop up rather than an object.

Thanks

[Graham]

Hi blackwhite.
Unless you embed a player into your site I think if a visitor clicks a song it will use their default player on their pc

Graham

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[Frank]

From what I see you need to add all the downloaded files like js folder, mp3 folder, and skin folder to the root. Open the playlist.xml and add your music to it as per their examples.

Then open a visual.html in Antenna:
add this to the head tab:
<script src='js/swfobject.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
then
add this to the body tab:
<object id="ep_player1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="ep_player.swf" width="400" height="300"> <param name="movie" value="ep_player.swf" /> <param name="flashvars" value="playlist=playlist.xml&skin=skins/basic_silver/skin.xml&key=REGISTRATIONKEY"> <span>To view the <a href="http://www.epplayer.com/" target="_blank">Flash MP3 Player</a> please update your <a href="http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/" target="_blank">Flash Player</a>.</span> </object>

Hope something here helps.
Never use audio,

Cheers,
Frank

PS: Coffeecup products are normally vey easy to work with.http://www.coffeecup.com/web-jukebox/
again its all brought in via visual.html

[blackwhite]

Thanks Frank. I think you combined the SWFObject method and the object method that the documentation suggests. I don't think the object method has anything in the head section. Nevertheless, I tried both but still can't get this to work. I understand the playlist.xml, but it's all the other parameters and addresses I don't know what to modify or where to put all the files. I'm not sure which I should pick, the object or the SWFobject method.

When you say the "root" in an Antenna site, what do you mean? Do you mean I should import these files into Antenna (and then I don't know how to address them in the visual html) or is the "root" the same directory that my .ata file resides?

I'm sure I'm not properly modifying some parameter or address in order for the player to load it's skin. I'll look into the coffee cup suggestion. Maybe their documentation makes more sense.

[Graham]

if you want and easy FREE one that works well and has online playlist try this one

www.alsacreations.fr/dewplayer.html

Graham

[blackwhite]

I tried the coffee cup player but again, I don't know where to put the files for use in Antenna. The documentation is for uploading to a site which makes sense, but in Antenna I'm not dealing with typical html and folders prior to publishing.

According to Coffee cup I added this code in Antenna:
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0"
width="288" height="241" id="CC3286759" align="middle">
<param name="movie" value="myjukebox.swf"/>
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="scale" value="noscale" />
<param name="salign" value="lt" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="myjukebox.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="288" height="241"
name="CoffeeCup" scale="noscale" salign="lt" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></object>

This is mostly Greek to me but I don't even see any address pointing to the necessary files to skin the player.

[blackwhite]

Wow! I managed to get the Coffee Cup player to work by importing all the files into Antenna in one folder and then dragging the .swf file onto the page and Antenna created a flash object with the songs loaded. No visual HTML. It's nice that it worked but I wish I understood better why it worked.

I tried to duplicate it with the ep player but it still would not load the skin or the mp3 file. -just a blank flash object.

[Graham]

Sometimes you don't see the working results until you either preview or upload the site

Graham

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[Frank]

Did you try my instructions?

Bring all the folders into Antenna as is.
add the script to the header and body like I mentioned.
It seems to work for me.

or

www.e-phonic.com/mp3player/documentation/

Cheers,
Frank

[Frank]

Blackwhite,
I downloaded the coffeecup to test as well.
Follow the software instruct add the mp3 and upload to your desktop.

Now:
Bring in all the files generated by coffeecup into antenna, except the myjukebox.html
bring in:
myjukebox_files folder (and all its content)
myjukebox.swf
myjukebox.xml

The software generates something similar to this...

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0"
width="288" height="241" id="CC9821743" align="middle">
<param name="movie" value="myjukebox.swf"/>
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="scale" value="noscale" />
<param name="salign" value="lt" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="myjukebox.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="288" height="241"
name="CoffeeCup" scale="noscale" salign="lt" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></object>

copy all of the code to your clipboard and in Antenna open a VISUAL.HTM and paste it into the BODY tab.

Resize the visual box to allow it all to fit (see size in code: may sample above reads, width="288" height="241")...preview.
It works perfectly.

The original player you wanted works exactly the same its just not as user friendly as the coffeecup player.

Good luck,

Frank

[Frank]

Download sample Coffeecup ATA here:
www.threefooter.com/cc-sample/

Cheers,
Frank

[blackwhite]

So much help, thanks. Sorry, I've been away from my computer for a number of days so I need to get my head back into this. Is the method that I mentioned above of dragging the Coffee Cup generated .swf file into Antenna to create a flash object not the best way to do this? What is the advantage of the visual html method over the flash object?

The coffeecup.ata was very helpful in understanding where everything goes, thanks, but could you answer the above question as to which method is best?

Yes I did try what you suggested Frank with the ep-player but I was confused as to what you meant by "add all the downloaded files"..."to the "root". What is the "root"?

[Graham]

basically the coffeecup one is a flash object. If using the visual html object in Antenna is all code where you copy and paste in the actual html code or javascript code

The root of you website is where all your htm pages, folders are. So if you open your site in Antenna what you see is the root of the site which is a quick overview of what pages and folders are there.

Graham

[blackwhite]

Well I successfully loaded the coffeecup player in both the visual html object method and the flash object method that I bumbled into. They both function identically in every preview I try (on the same page). So it begs the question, which one is best practice? or most robust?

Sorry Graham,  what does this sentence mean in your last post?  "If using the visual html object in Antenna is all cod where you copy and paste in the actual html code or javascript code"

[Graham]

basically in the visual html you insert all code in there and nothing else.

As for which version to use I don't think there is any right or wrong one. Personally I would most likely use the flash one myself

Graham