HI, when i close the player in IE. It makes my browser crash. Any ideas?

Hi,

The actual error you would receive with 'over-loading' the current flash player is a popup with "A script as stopped responding, do you wish to continue?" with 'Yes' and 'No' buttons.

It shouldn't crash your browser unless you have less than 2 tracks in the XML file or more than 50 tracks.

Other issues that can cause this is your internet cache needs emptying or you have spyware (BHO's) in your system.

P.S - Your signature image is too large, if vbulletin staff see it then it will be deleted.

Hey, i have 10 songs, and its just when i load up the player, then click the cross. the browser will freeze. It just happens on talkmods.com though

because when i closed it while i was on this site. it didnt crash.

EDIT: After i close the player. It takes about 20 seconds for the site to unfreze.

Check it at talkmods.com

I just checked your site and it didn't freeze on close of the browser window.

The player may cause problems if you use mp3's of varying bitrates, ideally they should be encoded at 128k. The Flash player will still play them but it may sound like they are on a 'fast-forward' speed.

Have you updated your flash player plugin? It should be on version 9, since there are security issues with previous versions.

Is there a way I can change that skin? I would like to change it to another one, but I have no idea how to do that :(

Hi,

The current skin cannot be changed, it was specifically designed to look like an ipod as much as possible, including all the emulated functions - apart from the volume control. The whole design was integrated with the look, hence the actual look cannot be changed without ruining certain features. I designed it originally for use on myspace.com profiles back in March, but I never actually released it, and it did win an award for best lookalike in one group.

There are numerous mp3 players on the net which sell for around $30 each, but I don't intend to charge for my design - and they allow for different skins. The pro version mentioned in the first post will have many more features than any commercial ones on the net, and packed with a few different players for different usage.

The pro release will have the ability to change skins, change color tint via a HEX value and an alpha setting. However, this version will be integrated directly into the vBulletin database, and not due out for awhile yet.

A 'black gloss' skinned player will be released later this week, with some new features, followed by the 'silver skinned' version.

So, as you can see there is alot planned for this modification - and the current one was just a 'small mod' that I didn't think would attract so much attention.

I will fully support this version and forthcoming versions of this modification, with many new features that have been discussed throughout this thread.

:)

Is there a way to configure playlists based on genre or artist? My users keep complaining about all the rap in between thier rock :/

I expect you're referring to multiple playlist 'switching' - this version doesn't support that feature.

The one I am currently designing (black gloss) does have multiple playlist switching by using numerous XML files containing your mp3 tracks. I'm not sure yet how many playlists it will be set to, as the number needs to be hardcoded into the player. With the pro version this won't be problem since all the playlists will be held in the database and all tracks entered through the AdminCP.

I wish now I had used the AdminCP panel from the start... oh well, we all learn by our mistakes.;)

I might buy the full version when it comes out, but than again, thats only if my forums actually become popular and I would like to invest that kind of money into them.

The pro version will always be free on here, to all vBulletin users. I only charge for the player for non-vBulletin versions, which come with completely different documentation and code.

I will never charge a fee for any modifcations of this vbMp3 Player or the forthcoming vbPro Mp3 Player, they are only fully supported on vBulletin.org, and always will be.:cool:

Regards.

okay i must have missed it but it is late....

how do i stop the cmps autostart? i don't want to shuffle lol and i don't want autostart....

secondly anyway for the cmps module not to start over every time you change to a new forum page?

I absolutely love this mod though thanks so much!!! I have been looking for something just like this!

I'll update the CMPS package with another player, with no autoStart and no 'Shuffle'.

This can't be achieved with the CMPS version since it would require a static block that doesn't reload on every page load. This is why I designed it originally as a popup to stop this problem.

You're welcome!:)

Excellent!! Thats what i wanted. I want to add around 200 files in the playlists... are there still some issues regarding that. Thanks for sharing this wonder gift.

Best Regards

The fix for populating the current player with over 50 tracks hasn't been fixed yet. The new 'black gloss' player (which will be released this week) will be fixed to accept unlimited tracks, per playlist and have playlist 'switching'.

:)

nice can't wait!!!

thanks for the quick update!

You're welcome!:)

Further updated players will be released later this week.:cool: However, I will be packing them differently, cus the downloads on this thread are becoming too much.

About time I had a tidy up!;)

Installed as instructed.
It does not appear on the screen, does not exist.
How to activate it? :hurt:

Regards,beishe8

Hi,

Can you be a little more specific?

• Is the actual mp3 player loading (viewable)?

If the player is showing:

• Does it display 'NAN' on the screen?
• Are tracks showing, but not playing?
• Are tracks not loading at all?

This will allow me to tell you what is wrong. Sometimes the example songs in the playlist will not play due to excessive plays throughout the day, or slow server response times.

Syrus XL

Hi Syrus XL,
Not at all. It does not exist.

I did try the songs' link from the .xml file, they are downloading and play fine with Media Player.

The forum(testvb) was password protected, removed the protection,did not improve.

I did try to upload the 3 files to the next places:
mysite.com/ipod.htm
mysite.com/forum/ipod.htm(the correct one I think)
mysite.com/forum/vbMp3_Player/ipod.htm (the whole folder uploaded)

Browsers: IE and FF

My host is Yahoo. Could it be a problem?

Regards, beishe8

Hi,

Could you PM me your url, so I can see the problem?

I don't know about Yahoo hosting, but the player uses no MySQL queries.

Regards,

When you look, check urls, too... I had Yahoo! and they are in their own little world. Totally different server directory structure than any other Servers I've seen. They could be using some other MySQL version, too.

I think the problem was down to a browser configuration, and not server related. The player seemed fine to me.:confused:

Thanks for the info though, G_Man!:) I'm not familar with Yahoo servers, never even thought they supported MySQL.. Oh well, I'm still learning!;)

Thanks Syrus XL and G_Man.
The player is playing beautifully...
In the default style...

There is another style installed(the one set for me), it is not appearing there.
Not a big deal.
From the test forum it is moving to the real one soon.

Thanks again guys !

You're welcome! :)

I've fixed the playlist bug with no more than 50 songs in one playlist, I'll be using the updated code, on the new skin I release later this week.

Getting there slowly! :)

Will there be a max number in the play list when the new version comes out? I have about 7 playlists right now LOL. :)

Hi,

No, I can't see there being a problem. I used an emulating script to populate the player earlier with 1,000 tracks of data, and it worked fine. The new player will have buttons to enable multiple playlist switching, think quite a few people wanted this feature, and I was originally going to hold it off until I designed the pro version. But I've decided to update quite a lot of code, and release it this week.

:cool:

*RESERVES SPOT FOR UPGRADE*

Thank you! :)

Second that... :)

Great little mod.

This is a great hack, thanks for a nice solution for an mp3 player on vb! If anyone wants to see a live demo, we have had a lot of contributions from our musician members adding their tracks to it, and even added some announcements to make it more radio-like. To view our demo visit my music forum and click "vbPlayer" in the navbar.

Great work, I'll keep an eye out for other projects of yours. :)

Hi MusicMan,

That's one excellent way of using the player, the announcements is a clever idea. Certainly, an added welcome to your vBulletin boad.

:cool:

XEON player added for those of you that have been awaiting it's release. Formally, known as the 'Black Gloss' version, this has been re-coded from scratch, and includes many new features.

Enjoy!

I would donate money or blow a coder if this would play MP3s without needing to create the XML first...

:D The Pro version doesn't use XML at all. We've tested both players using the current players reading directly from the database via PHP, and the tests seem to be running fine.

If all goes well the fully integrated version will be released within a few weeks.

So, the XML will soon be obsolete!:)

SYRUS! DAMN GOOD JOB! SIMPLY AMAZING! Great new skin, its not hard to customize as an XML file if you got dreamweaver and ... well its an MP3 player!

I will definitely consider purchasing your full version, again, AWESOME job!

Brilliant. Simply brilliant!

Thank you so very much for all your hard work on such an excellent add-on!

*thumbs up*

The song files. do I host them or do members put in their info to listen to songs they choose. sorrY I know im gonig to get blasted for this but just curious where the songs come from....

Has anyone tried the pro version with vb 3.5.3 & 3.5.4 ??

The songs you can either host yourself, and enter the full urls in the XML file/s, or use an external server. The player is designed to accept internal or external server configurations.

Your members can't upload songs in this version, because it uses no database for storing. However, the pro version (available in a few weeks) will allow you to set permissions should you want members to add tracks, which you can moderate via the AdminCP. There will be many new features in the pro version, and it will be released as a major addon. The only limitations at the moment are caused by the lack of database integration, but this will soon be a thing of the past. :)