Hi guys, I am unable to control the new Web Player using the same javascript
which I had been using for Yahoo Media Player. However, while Yahoo Media Player
had a very useful API, the new Yahoo Web Player does not! This means that I am
unable to make any changes to get my player working again.

Do you have a link to an API for Yahoo Web Player, or if not the code for the
old Yahoo Media Player? The new web player is more or less useless to me without
an API.

Thanks

http://lifelongmusic.com/beginning_band_music.html

works fine in all modern mac browsers, but nothing in windows [i'm using windows
xp, all latest browsers].

Hello,

I love Yahoo Media Player, and I don't want to use another player for the
website I'm developing.

I'm working on a Wordpress theme based on ajax, and I'm using this function to
add tracks after the ajax reload of my pages:

<script type="text/javascript">$(function() {
YAHOO.MediaPlayer.addTracks(document.getElementById("main"),1,false)});</script>

The tracks are adding fine, but the problem is that it's adding the same tracks
that are already on the playlist of YMP. I mean that when a user go to "page 1",
it loads the tracks of this page, and then he goes on "page 2" and come back on
"page 1", the player add the same duplicate tracks on the playlist. Is there a
way to prevent the player from adding tracks that are already inside it, but in
the same time keep the play buttons inside the content after every page load ?

I tried to turn "false" into "true" on my function to clear the playlist but it
breaks the ajax page load...

May you have a solution for me ? Thousand thanks for helping... And sorry for my
approximative english, I'm from France :)

Hi, I have a question.

What are the css tags for controlling the width and height of the video YMP
window?

Thanks

I'm having a difficult time tracking the various versions of Yahoo Media Player
/ Web Player. Like a lot of other folks in this group, I've done quite a bit of
custom scripting with the Yahoo Media Player API:
http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/api/

However, the new Web Player docs at http://webplayer.yahoo.com/docs seem to
indicate that the latest player has a very different API.

Does the API referenced above only apply to a specific version of the player? If
so, what version is that? And is there a dependable long term URL where we can
continue to access the JavaScript source for that version?

If the API referenced above no longer applies to the new player, where can we
find the documentation for the new API?

Thanks.

Hello everyone,

I have a cd track listing on a web page with some of the text linked to mp3
files.
The play icon from the yahoo media player indents the text so the list now looks
messy.
Is there any way to have the icon appear at the left of the text without moving
it.

Thanks for any help
from
Richard

Let's not talk about the "why I have 2000 mp3s on a single, non-paginated site".
Does anyone know of how I could speed up the initial loading of Yahoo for large
lists?

I realize I can make an xspf - but, two questions:
a) Will an xspf speed up the loading, as opposed to letting YMP parse page?
b) Can I even disable yahoo from indexing the in-page mp3s, yet still allow
users to click the mp3 link/play button?

I guess what I'm really asking is if there's a way to have the page function
normally (complete with playable links and the Yahoo-added play button/icon
beside each mp3 link) but have it run from an xspf file instead, and disable
parsing?  My guess: no.  But maybe there's a creative solution (e.g., something
with js?).

Thanks guys!

-J

I agree with you White Downs.


I think there should be the options of customization of colors for the player.


My "heavy-duty" site got stuck when changing to the new player. Had to get a few
things reprogrammed.


Well, it's still in Beta, so I assume there will be fine-tuning before we have
the final version which hopefully should have all the customization features
like many other online web-players. 

Happy Holiday Season! 



>________________________________
> From: whitedowns <whitedowns@...>
>To: yhoomediaplayer@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Tuesday, 20 December 2011, 0:15
>Subject: [yhoomediaplayer] Yahoo Media Player
>
>
> 
>Hate the new design. Previously stylish, elegant and unobtrusive, now black,
blatant and ugly. How can I revert to the earlier version? Also had to reload
java code to make my sites work again.
>
>
>
>
>

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I'm not sure to what extent this might have changed with the recent
overhaul of the player, but with the previous version, the player would
use whichever scriptable engines existed on the computer on which the user
was viewing the web site.  For MP3 files, it would try to use Flash first,
and then fall back to either Windows Media Player on Windows machines, or
QuickTime on Macs.

For other types of files, only one type of engine would be capable of
playing the file.  For an M4A, example, it may be that there is no
playback engine installed on a given machine that is capable of playing
the file.  All OS X Macs have QuickTime built in, which can be used for
this file format, but not all Windows machines do.

Does the Windows machine that you are using for testing have QuickTime
installed?  Can you play the files on that machine using anything other
than the Yahoo! Web Player?  If not, you may have found your problem.  In
that case, try installing QuickTime (free download from
http://support.apple.com/downloads/#quicktime) and see if that fixes it
for you.

If it's not too much trouble for you to do so, the best fix is probably to
convert your audio files to MP3.  That format is pretty ubiquitous across
all platforms.

Cheers,
-Mike D.



> http://lifelongmusic.com/beginning_band_music.html
>
> works fine in all modern mac browsers, but nothing in windows [i'm using
> windows xp, all latest browsers].
>
>

Thanks for the info Mike. You are right: I do not have a player capable of
playing the .m4a files on the system, but the same problem is occuring on the
webplayer.yahoo.com home page which uses .mp3 files. No buttons appear, but at
least the linked files will open in WMP. I am getting the following error
loading either site:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET
CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Timestamp: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 01:02:08 UTC


Message: 'tagName' is null or not an object
Line: 73
Char: 4
Code: 0
URI: http://webplayer.yahoo.com/

Any ideas? Thanks again!

sam

--- In yhoomediaplayer@yahoogroups.com, TheRealMikeD@... wrote:
>
> I'm not sure to what extent this might have changed with the recent
> overhaul of the player, but with the previous version, the player would
> use whichever scriptable engines existed on the computer on which the user
> was viewing the web site.  For MP3 files, it would try to use Flash first,
> and then fall back to either Windows Media Player on Windows machines, or
> QuickTime on Macs.
>
> For other types of files, only one type of engine would be capable of
> playing the file.  For an M4A, example, it may be that there is no
> playback engine installed on a given machine that is capable of playing
> the file.  All OS X Macs have QuickTime built in, which can be used for
> this file format, but not all Windows machines do.
>
> Does the Windows machine that you are using for testing have QuickTime
> installed?  Can you play the files on that machine using anything other
> than the Yahoo! Web Player?  If not, you may have found your problem.  In
> that case, try installing QuickTime (free download from
> http://support.apple.com/downloads/#quicktime) and see if that fixes it
> for you.
>
> If it's not too much trouble for you to do so, the best fix is probably to
> convert your audio files to MP3.  That format is pretty ubiquitous across
> all platforms.
>
> Cheers,
> -Mike D.
>
>
>
> > http://lifelongmusic.com/beginning_band_music.html
> >
> > works fine in all modern mac browsers, but nothing in windows [i'm using
> > windows xp, all latest browsers].
> >
> >
>

It seems to work yesterday, but doesn't work today. Why?

My Yahoo Web Player worked beautifully up until about mid December, thereafter
MP3s opened only in Quicktime which necessitates changing screens to open the
Quicktime player (slow and cumbersome). There is nothing "Quick" about changing
from one MP3 to another. I get the impression from reading other posts that
Yahoo changed something. I'd love to have a better handle on what exactly
changed, and I'd love even more to know how I can get back the streamlined web
player that worked so beautifully. Looking for enlightenment. Hope some of you
out there can help me out.

I too am having this problem. Worked beautifully until mid December. MP3s only
open in Quicktime now (slow, has to open in a new screen). I get the impression
that Yahoo changed something. Can someone explain what exactly changed. More
importantly can someone tell me how to get back to a web player that sets MP3s
up as playlists as the Yahoo player used to? I certainly am confused.

Hi,

I think that they have changed the code. I have added the new code from
this page http://webplayer.yahoo.com/get/ and the player is working on my
site again :)

--
Natasha Brown

*skype: russian_natasha *
*natasha.brown@...      **http://wikitranslate.org**

Learn new language - Teach your language
*
London NW5 4BJ, tel: +44 (0)7905353429, +44 (0)2074858680


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This problem has already been addressed by someone else (gsgleason) and is yet
unanswered here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/yhoomediaplayer/message/1159

I have the same problem. Other parameters seem to work fine when tested. This is
my current code, placed directly before the ending </body> tag on my pages...

<script type="text/javascript">
     var YWPParams =
     {
         autoplay: false,
         volume: 0.9,
     };
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://webplayer.yahooapis.com/player.js">
</script>
________________________________________

It remains at the 0.5 (50%) default value, no matter what other value I set it
at between between 0.0 and 1.0.

Can somebody please address this? The original poster with the same problem,
gsgleason, never received a reply. I'm hoping that I do. Thanks in advance.

Thanks, but this is the code that I have on my website and this is the one that
stopped working. Interesting that this works for you, and that you consider it
new. I've had this code on my website for months, but it stopped working in
mid-December.

--- In yhoomediaplayer@yahoogroups.com, Natasha Brown
<learnrussianspeakrussian@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I think that they have changed the code. I have added the new code from
> this page http://webplayer.yahoo.com/get/ and the player is working on my
> site again :)
>
> --
> Natasha Brown
>
> *skype: russian_natasha *
> *natasha.brown@...      **http://wikitranslate.org**
>
> Learn new language - Teach your language
> *
> London NW5 4BJ, tel: +44 (0)7905353429, +44 (0)2074858680
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

The new player no longer has the option to popout into a separate window. There
was also some promise in 2008 for the ability to stream across web pages (eg.
across a number of pages on the same site that shared the same Yahoo! player).
Are either of these options in the work with the new version? We are looking for
a solution that will let users play a playlist while browsing multiple pages on
the same site (persisting across the site, or in a separate popout window).

I have two problems with respect to volume.  the mp3's I play on my website with
yahoo media place lose volume.

Also - the parameter "volume" does not have any effect whatsoever.  I've tried
the range of 0.0 - 1.0 and there is no effect.

any thoughts or experience on this?

thanks

I have 51 items in my playlist and after upgrading to the new version of the
webplayer, I cannot get this one video to play but get other youtube videos to
play. The only difference that I can determine between the videos is the one
that will not play has the youtube 3d feature on the toolbar. Other than that, I
cannot see why this occurs. Also prior to the update, the video played.


anyone else having this issue?

Says Playback timed out and we're not able to play this item.

Could someone please explain to me exactly what the change was that Yahoo
instituted for the web player. If they changed the code, what was the specific
code that was changed? I have the following on my website: <script
type="text/javascript" src="http://webplayer.yahooapis.com/player.js"></script>
I would like to know how to get my player to work as before. Any help would be
appreciated.

Found the issue, if the video has the 3D function on YOUTUBE. Video will not
render.





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"Yahoo WebPlayer – Keyboard shortcuts"  shows up on my webpage in random places
since I upgraded.  It is a wordpress site.  this is the first issue I have had
with this plugin.  I want to use it does anyone know how to get rid of the words
plastered on my site?

Hi, can you send a link to your site so we can see what's happening?

--- In yhoomediaplayer@yahoogroups.com, "Cathy" <cathy@...> wrote:
>
> "Yahoo WebPlayer – Keyboard shortcuts"  shows up on my webpage in random
places since I upgraded.  It is a wordpress site.  this is the first issue I
have had with this plugin.  I want to use it does anyone know how to get rid of
the words plastered on my site?
>

If you go to http://www.projectgilgamesh.com/step2.html you will see I have 10
songs in my playlist.  However, if you click play on the first song in the left
column it skips down to the 3rd song (not playing the 1st 2 songs).

If you go directly to the URL of the first song
(http://www.projectgilgamesh.com/mp3/Beginning.mp3) you will see the url is
correct and the video plays.

Any ideas as to what is happening?

Thanks!

Ahoy-

I have an oddball use case that i'd like to run by you. Wondering if you might
have some advice....

On my site, there's a certain state of the page that causes a lightbox-like
modal dialog box to appear (via some jquery plugin). This box contains a link to
a song. I want that link to play first. I've added the tabindex attribute to the
link, but it doesn't seem to honor that (or it's already started playing a song
from the underlying/parent page).

Here's an example... This link should play a song called "Being Elvis Costello"
(which is something like track 19 on the parent page)
http://songaday.netscrap.com/songs/?scrap_id=1720&scrap_category=35

but it ends up playing track 1 on the parent page ("Until Next Time").

Note: the player seems to find the mp3 link inside the iframe which is good... I
just can't seem to push that song to the top of the playlist.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

CG

PS- if you're musical and want to try your hand at writing and recording 1 song
a day for the month of February, ping me.

Hi all?

I'm a newbie of the forum and I've landed here because I'm interested to see
yahoo web player working.

I've installed on my Blogger blog but it seems that a lot of features doesn't
works (e.g. playlink parameters, displaystate, and so on).

Worst of all, the size of the player is too invasive and make it almost
unusable. I need to minimize it but when I do it, the playe stop to play and
that is a behavour almost stupid.

Reding the previous messages I see that all of such issues were hihlightet by
users but none of the Yahoo technical staff has ever replied.

Is this a ghost forum? This post tries to answer such question. In the
meanwhile, I've disapled yahoo media player from my site: for now is pure
rubbish.

michele

Hi-

I'm still catching up on the new player, so apologies if this has already been
addressed... Wondering if there's a more detailed API doc for the new player
somewhere. I had been using the onTrackStart event to drive a bunch of stuff on
my page. Wondering where I can find these deets for the newer player.

Thanks for the pointer!

CG

i did not have the problem you described.  i played the .wma file.  then closed
out the webpage and the yahoo media player closed as well.  maybe i don't
understand your problem correctly?

--- In yhoomediaplayer@yahoogroups.com, "Milton" <crawl_in_fire@...> wrote:
>
> yahoo media player really is cool and useful . . . but :
>
> yahoo media player is ok with .mp3 files but dosnt work Correctly with .wma
files in my webpage ... after exit of my weblog the song still playing . but in
.mp3 files its ok and after exit of weblog the song stopping ! i cant describe
it very well plaese check my sample page :    http://freezeiner.blogfa.com/
>

I've just found the solution!
You can find it in the changelog of the new version of my plugin
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/webplayer-yahoo/
1.6.1
Volume setting works. We have found the bug in WebPlayer documentation. This is
the correct describtion: The volume parameter sets the default volume of the
Yahoo! WebPlayer on page load. The player expects a floating number between 0.00
and 1.00. The default value is 0.50.

Fabrizio

--- In yhoomediaplayer@yahoogroups.com, "Dan" <midisparks@...> wrote:
>
> I have two problems with respect to volume.  the mp3's I play on my website
with yahoo media place lose volume.
>
> Also - the parameter "volume" does not have any effect whatsoever.  I've tried
the range of 0.0 - 1.0 and there is no effect.
>
> any thoughts or experience on this?
>
> thanks
>

This one is still floating out there: http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/api/

Last-Modified: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:34:37 GMT

Current? Kindasorta...

CG

--- In yhoomediaplayer@yahoogroups.com, "CG" <scrapmaster@...> wrote:
>
> Hi-
>
> I'm still catching up on the new player, so apologies if this has already been
addressed... Wondering if there's a more detailed API doc for the new player
somewhere. I had been using the onTrackStart event to drive a bunch of stuff on
my page. Wondering where I can find these deets for the newer player.
>
> Thanks for the pointer!
>
> CG
>