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Posted by jimmb on March 7, 2010 at 2:42am
Project:Dash Media Player
Version:6.x-1.7
Component:Miscellaneous
Category:support request
Priority:normal
Assigned:scottalan
Status:active

Issue Summary

Hello, I have set up the Dash Player to play an album of .mp3 files. It's working well, and now I have some questions...

  1. Rating. I would actually like to remove the ratings (both "Rating" and "Your Rating") from the player. I tried disabling the Voting API module, but they still appear. I also looked in "dashconfig.xml" along with the node's PHP, but don't see a way to remove this.
  2. Autoplay. Right now I have that set to 'false' in the node's PHP, so you need to press play for each song. This is okay, but I'd prefer it to start streaming a song automatically (so someone could steam an entire album w/out needing to press play for each song). I saw a related question here, but that just confused me (as even when I had 'autostart' set to 'true', I was still seeing the start button...). Anyway, if this is possible, I think it would make the audio player even more useful!
  3. I'm wondering about the icon just to the right of the volume slider (on the top) that looks like a page of text. It seems to be "whited-out" compared to the volume toggle, yet when I click it something happens. Specifically, a strip emerges from the left of the player. It's mostly white, though it shows a small, grayed-out album-image on the far left. I just can't figure out what it is, what it's trying to do, and if something's wrong.
  4. I'm also curious about the purpose of the volume slider being at "0" when a song has initially been selected. As soon as you press play, the slider jumps up to the standard preset volume. But being at "0" initially is confusing because it makes the end-user think there won't be any sound. And if they try to move it up before pressing play, it often jumps around and kind of "spazzes out". So I'm wondering if there's a way to have that standard playing volume set right from the beginning.

Well, those are the main questions I have! Thanks for any advice,

Jim

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#1

Posted by scottalan on March 9, 2010 at 11:06pm
Assigned to:Anonymous» scottalan

Hi jimmb-

I'll answer these in the order presented:

  1. By "Rating" I will assume you are talking about the "Voter". You can disable the Voter by adding: votingenabled = false; to the -flashvars- in your dashconfig.xml file. You can alternatively add this line of code $params['votingenabled'] = 'false'; to the body of the node in which the player is installed.
  2. When using $params['autostart'] = 'true'; the audio should start playing when the player has finished loading, and all "media" in the playlist will play one after the other. I have re-tested this on my devSite and it is working as it should.
  3. I believe the 'icon' you are referring to is the "menu button". I'm not sure exactly what you are seeing when you press the button, but you should see a "menu" tween from the left of the screen. This contains the 'embedcode'.
  4. You can set the 'start' volume in the dashconfig.xml or the $params. volume = 50; or $params['volume'] = '50'; this would set the volume to 50%.

Please refer to http://tmtdigital.com/flashvars for more flashvars.

Regards

scott

#2

Posted by jimmb on March 13, 2010 at 4:14am

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the response! I've had a chance now to explore your suggestions, and will add my responses below...

  1. Great, I added that $params code to the node and it disappeared :)
  2. Hmm, not for me. I added that code to the node, but still nothing happens when the node loads in. This view has 11 songs, but I doubt all the songs need to be loaded before it can start playing (?). I've tested in Firefox, Camino & IE 7, and nothing happens until you hit the "play" button. Also, when a song plays to the end, the player jumps to the next one. However, that song doesn't start playing automatically either.
  3. I've attached a screenshot of that icon ("Picture 1"), and what appears when you click it ("Picture 2"). Definitely no embed code is appearing....
  4. I added that $params code to the node, but it didn't change anything. I'm still seeing the volume slider at zero until you press play, and then it jumps up to around 90% (and what is that value, actually?).

At least the 1st item worked, so it seems that I'm generally doing things correctly. As for why the other actions didn't, I'll be very interested in any additional feedback!

Thanks,

Jim

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#3

Posted by scottalan on March 18, 2010 at 4:11am

I'm not exactly sure why the 'menu' looks as it does in your screen shot. What version of the dashPlayer are you running? 1.3.4 is the most current release. Sometimes deleting the database cache seems to help when I'm not sure what else would be causing the player to hang. If this doesn't help, I would download the dashPlayer again: http://tmtdigital.com/node/993. I use this exact installation time and time again with no problems. Let me know if this helps.

-Scott

#4

Posted by greywolfsspirit on March 18, 2010 at 7:29pm

that is the embedding icon if I see it correctly. When I click it, I see an Embed string come up on the screen until I click that same icon again..

#5

Posted by jimmb on March 29, 2010 at 2:01am

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the reply and for your patience. I checked the version of DashPlayer that's installed, and it is 1.3.4. I also cleared the database cache through the Devel module (assuming "Flush all caches" does this) and re-loaded the page. But there's still no autoplay function happening.

Also, thanks for the input greywolfsspirit. We are all talking about the same thing now I'm sure. However, after doing what's mentioned in the 1st paragraph, I still only see a blank white area like the screenshot in #2.

Regards,

Jim

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