There is something funny going on on the second page of the kick in the arp page. It keeps freezing Chrome on me (not just the page but the whole instance of Chrome). It happens as I scroll down the page. I've checked other sites and other pages and it only seems to be this one page. It loads and runs fine in Explorer (well, as fine as a page ever loads in explorer. It's too wide and really slow.)
So, first off, are any of my Chromies having the same problem?
Second, I don't even know what code to look for. Everyone is trying to get their file to play, so there is all sorts of new HTML on the page. Page 1 of the Kick in the Arp page seems to work fine.
Any ideas? I noticed at least one new player type I hadn't seen before.
I just checked it out in my FireFox--works OK--but getting a little glitchy--just too many of those little player thingies trying to load at the same time I think.
Seems like only Chrome users are having trouble--might be time to try the Fox? ;) ---------- ==================================== Always be yourself--unless you suck. . . -Joss Whedon
I hate to say it, but some the files that seem to be having the most difficultly are coming from Dropbox. Maybe it's time to make a list of variables and do a thorough test. (And check the Chrome and Dropbox forums and with MacWebstieBuilders, and Windows too, I guess.) So, I guess the next step would be to ask people what file hosts they are or have tried using, what file formats, what embeding codes and what browsers people are using. I thought I'd fixed the Chrome auto start issue, but I can't find the code I used to work through it. (I do seem to remember it was a Russian site and it had something to do with the new HTML 5 standard.) Does that ring a bell with anyone?
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Last Edited by on Apr 22, 2011 1:22 PM
Sorry nacoran, kick up the arp! seems to have caused a lot of trouble for folks, what a shame.
With so many file formats available there are bound to be problems. I think Chrome hic-cups because the wma file wants to fire up the windows media player and Chromes security system doesn't like it.
Also, as we've noticed the thread takes a while to load once a few embedded sound files have been added.
Sorry you've been troubled by all this nacoran and thanks for your efforts in trying to sort it out.
That's just the nature of the beast, Tooka. If it wasn't such an awesome thread I wouldn't care. I wonder if maybe there is an app out there that would let anyone add files to a playlist. I'm sort of thinking like what WalterTorre has, or at least used to have, with one player for a bunch of songs. If we could figure out a way for multiple people to be able to input multiple songs (in different formats) into one player like that it might speed up boot times, and maybe make posting quicker. Anyone know anything like that that would work for multiple users?
Bronze, the way I relinked it in your post stopped the problem, it just means there is a link to a player instead of actually showing a player. It's not you. It's an ongoing problem with audio support caused by different browsers and different hosts and different file formats. You actually posted it the way we suggest on the how to page, only you used a wma file, which for some reason, doesn't work that way. All this and the internet standards are being changed!
I think I've almost got it figured out. Once I do I'll post an update. :)
The next version of this forum should definitely have a way to embed audio with the click of a button. A harmonica forum isn't really the place to be discussing HTML5 semantics. Additionally, it really shouldn't be on the forum users to learn HTML to embed media.
Just a side comment. Autoplay/autostart should always be set to "false". Could you imagine a page full of embedded songs that all started autoplaying?
Jonlaing, yes, I've had it happen! Chrome was having issues with autostart at one point where false and true were inverted. Yeah, an auto embed button would be awesome. It would have to have some intelligence though, to identify the file type, because there seems to be some issue with sequences of priorities that crash things depending on the file type. This was the code combinations that seemed to finally work in my browsers. (Chrome, Firefox, IE). I don't know if it works in Opera or Safari, let alone some of the more exotic browsers.
It's not terribly difficult to code something to have it figure out the file type and put the appropriate embed code in place.
What would probably be most effective would to have a flash player on the site. Then that could be wrapped with an <audio> tag for us iOS users. Should be pretty solid. Oh well, I'm sure whomever Adam has working on v2.0 of the forum has already considered all of this.
