Happy Birthday to the little 'un chief.

Got this installed and running now. Got me two probs. First one was using CMPS with the index page not in the forum folder. Adding ipod.htm to the CMPS URL list didn't work, and changing the url path in the template to the direct path made it look for "forum/www.mydomain.com/forum/ipod.htm" ??
Anyway, fixed it by making two playlists, two swf's and two ipod.htm's - one of each in the forum folder and and one of each in the root. No biggie.
2nd prob is *some* MP3's play either slowly or too fast. I'm sure this is nothing whatsoever to do with VbPlayer, but wondered if you'd come across the prob and/or if you knew a fix.
Driving me up the wall. Each MP3 I have a prob with is fine locally, is fine when I download it from the server suing a hyperlink, BUT when played thru VbPlayer, it's speed is screwed up.
Any clues?

That would cause a problem, if the CMPS index.php was outside the main vB forum directory.

As for the speed differences on mp3's, this wouldn't be the player causing the problems, but the actual mp3 encoding. If you have varying bitrates, then the mp3's will sound like they are speeding up or slowing down. If you encode all mp3's to use a fixed bitrate of 128k then it should fix this little problem.

I guessed it might be an encoding issue.
It's a radio session converted from real to MP3 so probably allsorts of issues with it.
Thanks for that and your hard work. This is an absolute peach of a mod.

Once I get this CMPS version done and packaged, then I'll start designing a new look mp3 player with much better features, taking into consideration other members suggestions.:)

Thanks for the compliment! :D

Hope the download it function it will then can be implemented :D (i mean for specific usergroups maybe, not just for everyone (put a statement if condition for usergroup=12 for example)

Do you mean, to download the actual mp3 playing at the time having a download link?:confused:

Sounds great.
Wanted to say I've resolved the speed issue by recoding with Lame (as I usually do.. lol ) rather than the poor app/codec I was using previously.
All sorted now, and this is the perfect addition to a music related forum.
I look forward to the updates!

Yes, i mean in the flash player u will make, when i song is selected, to have a download link for the actual mp3, but for a specific usergroup. So they can download the mp3 if they want it:) . Also, maybe display the size of the file somehow? So ppl in slow connections, know what they will encounter?

Anyway, suggestions :)

It could be incorporated, but then there is the matter of copyright infringement. I maybe wrong on this (so don't quote me), but I am under the impression that it's legal to listen to mp3's on the internet, but not to download them, unless you have an original copy. But to me this contradicts itself, because any form of streaming whether it be mp3's or video, can be accessed via your browsers cache anyway.:surprised:

This law does vary considerably from country to country. This is why certain P2P websites carrying torrents, can get away with it.

The actual idea of this modification was just to allow mp3's to be streamed through the player, not actually download them as well. I don't think I've ever seen a mp3 player with download capabilities.:confused:

I am using the latest CMPS and am having issues as well. I tried following what some people were saying but I just want to see what I can do to get this to work. Here's my setup:

Followed all instructions on installation - nothing happens or works on main page or forums.

My paths are as follows:

root\forum\(files are here)
root\cmps_index.php

So, my cmps index is out of the forum directory.

Also, with CMPS I created a special "forum" page so that the portal can wrap around it. This is my existing setup now.

Is there something special that I need to do to get this to work with my CMPS or with my forum?

Thanks in advance.