On a localhost install of Drupal I tried using the SWF filter like this:
<swf file="media/audio/myaudio.mp3">

The player didn't show.
But when I changed 'localhost' in my browser's URL to my IP address, it worked properly.

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Stuart Greenfield’s picture

Stuart Greenfield commented

To diagnose this properly can you post the source code for the swf content as it appears when browsing using http://localhost, and as it appears when browsing to an IP address. Bear in mind that the <swf> format is cached as a filter, so you may need to create two nodes to generate two pieces of code.

In principle it should work in either case - swf tools doesn't do anything other than construct urls to refer to files, so whether you are using localhost, an ip address, or even a local server name, all should work ok.

The only issue can arise if you are generating xml playlists - these have the url coded in to them, but for a single file that shouldn't be the case.

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joachim commented

It looks like it's a caching issue rather than the difference in URLs.
I've just tried making a flash node with an mp3 file, and:
- Firefox 2: nothing.
- Safari: fine
- Firefox 2 logged-out: fine
- Firefox 2 logged back in: nothing
- Tried using Devel module to empty the case and still nothing.

Here's the code Firefox 2 has:

<div class="swftools"><object width="300" height="50" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000">
<param value="sameDomain" name="allowScriptAccess"/>
<param value="http://localhost/drupal/sites/all/modules/swftools/shared/1pixelout/player.swf" name="movie"/>
<param value="opaque" name="wmode"/>
<param value="#FFFFFF" name="bgcolor"/>
<param value="showall" name="scale"/>
<param value="autohigh" name="quality"/>
<param value="l" name="align"/>
<param value="true" name="allowFullScreen"/>
<param value="/drupal/files" name="base"/>
<param value="false" name="play"/>
<param value="false" name="menu"/>
<param value="false" name="loop"/>
<param value="autostart=no&loop=no&soundFile=http://localhost/drupal/files/flash/CarrollWalrusandCarpenter_64kb_0.mp3&width=300&height=50" name="FlashVars"/>
<embed width="300" height="50" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" flashvars="autostart=no&loop=no&soundFile=http://localhost/drupal/files/flash/CarrollWalrusandCarpenter_64kb_0.mp3&width=300&height=50" salign="tl" allowfullscreen="true" base="/drupal/files" name="" play="false" menu="false" loop="false" quality="autohigh" scale="showall" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" wmode="opaque" src="http://localhost/drupal/sites/all/modules/swftools/shared/1pixelout/player.swf" swliveconnect="default"/>
</object></div>
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Stuart Greenfield commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Over a year old with no follow up. Localhost is working fine on test setups, and no other reports of an issue, so changing to closed.

Re-open / re-post if this wrong.