I added the javascript tag for webplayer.yahooapis.com/player.js to my page, and everything worked great in FireFox 3.6. But in Internet Explorer 8, in the...
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TheRealMikeD@...
mdiddyla
Apr 8, 2011 5:17 pm
Can you post a link to your page so we can take a look at it and see if we can determine what the problem is?...
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Ymp User
ymp.user
Apr 8, 2011 6:51 pm
The page is not published yet, so I'm just running this locally. If it helps, here's an example of one of the links as they end up on the page. This is the ...
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Ymp User
ymp.user
Apr 8, 2011 7:22 pm
Well, it looks like trying to put html in my message didn't work out, it got pretty mangled after posting. I will try to get the page published today, so I ...
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Ymp User
ymp.user
Apr 8, 2011 8:41 pm
The page is published now, at http://www.760kgu.biz/Podcast/List/287 and it appears to be working...so is this an issue with YMP or with Internet Explorer? If...
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Ymp User
ymp.user
Apr 8, 2011 8:41 pm
I spoke too soon in my previous post. In fact YMP is still not working with Internet Explorer 8. The page is at http://www.760kgu.biz/Podcast/List/287 ...
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Dave W
djwarmer
Apr 8, 2011 10:07 pm
Hi there, I just checked out the player on IE 8 and everything seems to be working fine. Are you still seeing the error icon?...
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Ymp User
ymp.user
Apr 11, 2011 3:55 pm
I checked from another computer and it worked fine, so I guessed there must be a problem with Internet Explorer's settings on my computer. In IE I went to...
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Dave W
djwarmer
Apr 11, 2011 4:03 pm
The player doesn't have specific security settings for IE8. I believe as long as JavaScript is allowed (which it is be default) and there's no Flash blocking...
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ivanlan9
Apr 12, 2011 10:03 pm
It happens in FireFox also, and has for at least two months. When will the beta graduate to production? I really don't want to have to convert 10,000 links...
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bencalendar
Apr 13, 2011 5:40 pm
Hi all, I hope you'll bear with me here. I'm not particularly tech savvy, so appreciate your patience and help. I have a music blog where I have always offered...
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Dave W
djwarmer
Apr 13, 2011 5:43 pm
Hi Ben, One way is to not give the link anything clickable. So instead of this: <a href="example.mp3">my song</a> Do this: <a href="example.mp3"></a> my song...
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Ivan Van Laningham
ivanlan9
Apr 13, 2011 5:46 pm
Savvy users can simply "View Source" to get around the lack of a clickable anchor. Metta, Ivan ... -- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works ...
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Lucas Gonze
lucas_gonze
Apr 13, 2011 6:27 pm
Yeah, this goal is basically homebrew DRM and it comes with the same endless back and forth....
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Dave W
djwarmer
Apr 13, 2011 6:28 pm
Hi, Unless you have a custom setup, you should just be able to replace the old player JS code with the new player code (typically placed in the footer of most...
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Ivan Van Laningham
ivanlan9
Apr 13, 2011 9:55 pm
Hmmm. I changed <script type="text/javascript" src="http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/js "></script> to <script type="text/javascript"...
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Dave W
djwarmer
Apr 13, 2011 10:09 pm
hmmm indeed not sure what could be going on. Can you send a link to a site you're having problems with so we can take a look?...
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Ivan Van Laningham
ivanlan9
Apr 13, 2011 10:21 pm
I'll set one up later tonight. It's not public--intranet only--but I'll post a page and make sure it exhibits the problem. Thanks for the help. Metta, Ivan ...
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Ivan Van Laningham
ivanlan9
Apr 14, 2011 4:26 pm
Hi All-- This page exhibits the problem: http://www.pauahtun.org/msc.html Metta, Ivan ... -- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.pauahtun.org/...
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Dave W
djwarmer
Apr 14, 2011 4:29 pm
We'll take a look...
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Dave W
djwarmer
Apr 14, 2011 4:50 pm
Hi Ivan, The issue is caused by placing the YMPParams below the player JS code. If you move the YMPParams script above the player JS code, it should solve the...
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Ivan Van Laningham
ivanlan9
Apr 14, 2011 5:21 pm
Very cool, thanks. However, there is no display of the album art when the player is expanded, so the YMPParams={defaultalbumart:'this.jpg';} doesn't do any...
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Ivan Van Laningham
ivanlan9
Apr 15, 2011 4:34 pm
Since I'm picking up the track, album and artist names from the directory and file names on disk, there's no way to change the ' into something else. However,...
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Dave W
djwarmer
Apr 15, 2011 4:43 pm
Hi Ivan, Glad you found a work-around for the special character issue. We'll take a look at this and the album art issue add these bugs to our queue to fix. ...
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Ivan Van Laningham
ivanlan9
Apr 15, 2011 5:56 pm
It's probably not worth trying to account for every special character in an href, only legal ones like ' and " -- legal in that ' is legal when the href is...
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bev_sst
Apr 21, 2011 3:46 pm
At http://developer.yahoo.com/mediaplayer/ it says to use: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/js"> In many of the forum messages...
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Dave W
djwarmer
Apr 21, 2011 3:51 pm
Hi Steve, Apologies for the confusion. The http://webplayer.yahooapis.com/player.js is our latest version, which recently came out of beta. The page at...
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Philip
philip_patel12
Apr 21, 2011 9:22 pm
In the prior version, I was hiding the play and pause button using the CSS. Since the button is now outside of the <a href> tag, I can make the button not...
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bev_sst
Apr 23, 2011 3:30 pm
Dave, Sluggish? Probably just relative. It seemed to me that on my Windows machine IE8 was significantly slower than Firefox3.6. Maybe IE8 just is. Steve...
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clarendongirl@...
clarendongir...
Apr 28, 2011 4:50 pm
This is my second post - the first hasn't appeared so it may have fallen between the cracks. Anyway, there's 2 versions of the Yahoo mp3 player on the mp3...
