Wordpress Audio Question
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- 222ridepegasus
Hi Just a quick Question regarding streaming an Audio mix through Wordpress
I'm building a Wordpress site for a record label and they want to have a player running in the sidebar, ideally steaming a Mix... I've dabbled with this a little, but every time you jump to a new page (refreshes) the Mix resets itself and starts from the beginning... I can have the Player launch in a separate window/tab - but is there another way?
any help greatly appreciated :)
- airey0
welcome to the web. this has been an issue since 1996. the only real options are a pop-up window, a window in the background playing the sound or frames / iframes.
realistically the best option to cover off usability and build sensibility (to me anyway) is to have it as a sidebar player and a link offering a popup player. this lets people choose whether to simply play it while they read, knowing that a link will end this or pop-up a window by choice (which allows the link to work as auto popups are often blocked by IE which is about 70-80% of your audience) and have a bunch or audio options, images etc.
- airey0
to build the site with frames/iframes for this could become a nightmare but is an option.
- 222ridepegasus0
Cheers... Yeah I thought its was nightmare, obivously as it's wordpress I don't want to get into Framesets / iFrames....
The SideBar Player offering a Pop Up Player is not a bad idea....
cheers