Simple Flash Player

bigburger · **Joined:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4

Hi I used the step in Chapter 2 for creating a simple flash audio player and it all seems to work fine except....

When anyone tries to access the site and load the page with the flash player it asks them for my idisk username and password.

I have the SFPSource and Mp3 on my idisk, should i put them in my "public" folder to allow access ??

Thanks..keep up good work !!

S

iWebFAQ · **Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 5:02 pm

Hi,

please don't send me private messages. It's enough to post the question on the forum.

It shouldn't be necessary to put the files in the Public folder. Try posting the code you entered in the HTML Snippet here for me to have a look at it and try to find out the reason why it doesn't work.

Also please specify whether you created the MP3 file or you bought it from iTunes or other stores.

Regards,
Cédric

bigburger · **Joined:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4

iWebFAQ · **Posted:** Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:15 am

No problem...

May I ask you why you used
http://idisk.mac.com
in the URLs?

By using http://idisk.mac.com you're prompted for the password. Instead you must use http://web.me.com

Also you don't seem to have uploaded all the files (or don't have uploaded them to the right location iDisk/Web/Sites/ or have a permission issue) since
http://web.me.com/bigburger/SFPSource/player.swf
gives a Not found error.

Regards,
Cédric

bigburger · **Joined:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4

Done both what you suggested and seems to be working fine now, i noticed a lot of servers are no longer supporting flash technology, what happens next ? do we make sure all pc users have qt installed..lol...??

Cheers

iWebFAQ · **Posted:** Tue Oct 26, 2010 1:29 am

I'm, glad you got it to work!

No QuickTime. The future is called HTML5 which allows people to play audio and video without having any plugin installed (neither Flash nor QuickTime nor anything else). However InternetExplorer currently does not support HTML5... What a surprise, huh?!

I think the future isn't here yet...

Regards,
Cédric

denise · **Joined:** Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:40 pm **Posts:** 2

Hi Cédric

Thanks so much for your help with iWeb.

I'm attempting to get the simple flash player to work, too.

I've uploaded the "SFPSource" folder to the public_html folder of the root of my domain name (which is contained in the public_html folder of the root of my master domain name - I can host multiple domains/sites under my one account).

I've put my mp3s into a folder entitled "meditations" and have uploaded this folder to the root of my domain name (contained in the public_html folder of the root of my master domain name).

I have set up the flash player 8 times, entering the code on my site as follows (and changing the number values for audioplayer and playerID as instructed):

<script language="JavaScript" src="http://denisestar.com/SFPSource/audio-player.js"></script>
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://denisestar.com/SFPSource/player.swf" id="audioplayer1" height="24" width="290">
<param name="movie" value="http://denisestar.com/SFPSource/player.swf">
<param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=1&autostart=no&soundFile=http://denisestar.com/meditations/healinglove.mp3">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
</object>

The first two mp3s play, but the other six show the message: "Error loading file"

I've purchased 1 track through a music site, 5 tracks through another site (two of which work and 3 don't) and another I downloaded from YouTube. (I've password protected my site because the content is for my use only.)

What might be the trouble?

Best wishes
Denise

denise · **Joined:** Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:40 pm **Posts:** 2

Hi Cédric

Cancel that request for help - I got it all working. Your advice is brilliant!

Cheers

Denise