I made a folder for my forum root dicectory called "mp3s" and I put an mp3 in it. But when I chose www.myforum.com/mp3s nothing happened there


Am I on the right track at all? Haha.

You don't choose a directory to play (although I wish you could), you pick a file.

http://www.myforum.com/mp3s/ParisHilton-MyVaginaIs Large.mp3 would be an example, as I understand it.

I tried that.

My site is www.mustangmafia.com

My forum is www.mustangmafia.com/index.php

I uploaded a song called 2pac & Rhianna - We Ride


Sooo The song SHOULD be at

[url]www.mustangmafia.com/index.php/mp3s/2pac&rhianna-weride.mp3[url]


But nope. :( Check yourself.

The proper link is actually:

http://www.mustangmafia.com/mp3s/2pac%20&%20Rhianna%20-%20We%20Ride.mp3

To find that, I went into this directory and right-clicked on the MP3, then selected 'copy link location'

http://www.mustangmafia.com/mp3s/

Ohhh. Werd. 8-)

But even WITH the proper location, the song wont add now? Try yourself. Sigh. I don't know why. There's room on the playlist, proper url, I don't know... ><

After viewing the song from the playlist in admin cp I realised you can "edit" it. So, I went in there and tried to change the song ID number and "approve" the song. But it said "Unable To Find Play List MP3 [ Go Back ]" :/

You cannot change the mp3 id number as for the problem with the approve part i will sort that out later today.

So as of now this hack is useless or what? I can seem to get it to play any music.

Never mind. It works when I add songs from the navbar. Just doesn't work when I go threw the admin cp.

Thanks fellas. Lovely hack. :)

Brilliant thanks, Syrus. Working fine on my site and looking forward to the fixes. Also keen on seeing the video, paid, version. Let me know, please.

For Boss 302, I don't know if it helps but there are a couple of tips here: first, if you have all your mp3s in a file on your server, you can in fact use a relative url. So, no need for the http:// myforum.com/forums ... or whatever. Try using [ ./mp3/musicfilename.mp3 ] without the brackets, of course. And the full stop (point) before the first forward slash is essential.

The second tip: highlight each mp3 file name, copy it and paste into the loader after you insert ./mp3/ . That way, you make no mistakes and don't need to insert %20 in blank spaces and so on. It also ensures you get the mp3 name, whatever it may be, correct. Naturally, you can insert whatever you like for the band/singer and the track name that you want to appear on the player's playlist.

Oh, one last thing. Make sure there are no quotes or apostrophes in your mp3 file name or you'll get a database error message about syntax. Syrus is fixing this, I understand - but it's easy to remove them and everything then works just fine.

Hope that helps.

Biggles