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4/1/2007 3:39 AM
 

Hi All... I like the media module and all, but I'd like to see something more... like a multiple-song mp3 player with pick lists, etc.  Does anyone know of any good free embedded mp3 players that work good with DNN?  I've taken a look at a couple:  XSPF Flash Music Player -- I could not get it to read its .xspf config file and didn't get it working.  I've tried several other flash-based players which required inserting javascript, and those didn't seem to take either in the text/html module.  It's been very frustrating.  So, if you all know of a good mp3 player which can handle multiple songs you can pick from based on mp3 files sitting in DNN, I would certainly appreciate your input!  :)

Thanks,
Mike

 
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4/3/2007 8:28 AM
 

Mike,

Have you tried the instruction links below yet? I'd love to get a response as well! I'm going to tackle this tonight myself becuase the media module isn't good for a band dotnetnuke website. It automatically loads content at startup doesn't let you choose whether or not to load and it doesn't let you offer people the choice of what to listen to. Can I just put this flashplayer on my site, configure it, and put it into a dotnetnuke module how so it will launch correctly in the pane?

The flash sounds like a good solution... (and wouldn't this avoid the windows/quicktime/firefox, etc. problems because most people do have flash?)

http://www.lissaexplains.com/mp3player.shtml

http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/stu/ahanley/music/help.htm

and the help here?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/musicplayer/

What have you tried?

Anyone else down this? Can I embed this and what is the best way to embed it?

Best,

Katherine

 
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4/3/2007 7:07 PM
 

Hi Katherine...

Yep, I did try those sites to get the XSPF player working... I was really hoping to get it working cuz it's a pretty cool little player, bu no dice.  For some reason, it just doesn't like to pick up or read the custom .xml file you have to create and reference.  For me, I could get the player running, but it would only play a default playlist from who knows where.  It wasn't my own playlist... oh well.  If anyone has had any luck with the XSPF player on DNN, I'd certainly love to hear from you!  :)

I did get a player finally working on my site... you can check it out here... I'm not sure if it's streaming, or if it has to d/l the entire mp3... not sure.  I'll need to try from remote some day.  Perhaps you can tell me?  :)

http://www.chasingjonah.com/Downloads/Music/tabid/191/Default.aspx

It's sad to me that this was the only one... I tried a bunch of other cool ones, but no dice.  Guess I'm stuck with this one for now...

Thanks for your reply, Katherine!

Cya,
Mike

 
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4/4/2007 6:06 PM
 

Mike,

OK, I got it to work on my site...

Here is the code. You need the absolute paths in four places in order for it to work.

 <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" align="center" width="400" height="151" > <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"/> <param name="movie" value="http://url.com/folder/xspf_player.swf?playlist_url=http://url.com/folder/playlist.xspf"/> <param name="quality" value="high"/> <param name="bgcolor" value="#E6E6E6"/> <embed src="http://url.com/folder/xspf_player.swf?playlist_url=http://url.com/folder/playlist.xspf" quality="high" bgcolor="#E6E6E6" name="xspf_player" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="center" height="168" width="400"> </embed> </object>

If the above code that you embed in the text/html module still doesn't bring something up, make sure you validate your xspf file at www.xspf.org to make sure that that isn't it.

BTW, I checked out your site. The link you gave me went to a mp3 player that did stream (ie, it didn't have to load the whole song in order to start playing.) However, when you click on the mp3 in the top menu, it brings you to the xspf player with the playlist not loading, not the mp3 player that works.

Are you friend or relative that is working on the site? I'd love to compare notes! Another band site using DNN! BTW, I'm the mom doing my daughter's site. She also LOVES Flyleaf. My son loves Hawk Nelson. I love your template! How did you do that?

Check the site out at http://www.jessicaprouty.com

I'm not happy with the usability of the gallery, and I'm trying to get the email sign up in the same text/html module with the flashpaper via a table, but it messes up everything when I try to do that. Have you used DNN before in other capacities?

Best,

Katherine

 
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4/4/2007 8:12 PM
 

Hi Katherine... I finally got it working... dang, that took long.  I had the 4 absolute paths already... it just wasn't able to read the playlist.xspf for some reason.  I finally figured out... it's because IIS didn't have .xspf registered as a known mimetype, and wasn't able to serve it up!  Arrrghghgh...  So for all of those of you out there with this issue... pretty easy... just add this mimetype:

extension:  xspf
mimetype:  application/xspf+xml

I am the Dad setting up the site for my daughter and her band.  :)  Pleased to meet you... looks like we have similar jobs here... :)  The template is just one of those freebies I found out there on the net... wish I could find more of them, or at least figure out how to make my own. 

I'm also not happy with the gallery either, but I found a workaround... I've been using this one for my personal family pictures, albeit outside of dotnetnuke:  http://www.klingebiel.com/tempest/hd/Xibit.htm... I'll probably be moving more stuff over to it.  Wish I could drop it into DNN.  :)

I try to stay as much within the boundaries of DNN so thing don't break... plus I don't know what the heck I'm doing anyways if I have to venture into dotnet programming.  :)

Take care,
Mike

 
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