SoundCloud apparently released a new visual player on 1/27, which honestly is ugly as hell (as evidenced by the numerous complaints on its blog page: http://blog.soundcloud.com/2014/01/27/new-visual-player/). Here is the difference between the new & old versions:
1) New: http://mediography.by/media/global-trance-grooves-episode-133-2014-04-08 -> Drupal site (mine)
2) Old: http://playmytape.co -> Tumblr site
I've been doing some research over the past three months and never found a solution, but did find something today to share:
When I click the Share button of the SoundCloud page to copy & paste the code (which is actually just the URL of the page) into Drupal, I noticed that the Embed tab actually allows me to choose between the new (default) & old look (shown in attachment). I tried pasting this code into the module and it of course didn't work.
But I'm wondering if anyone has figured out a way to force the module to choose the embed code of the old look by default instead of the new look? Or maybe there is a way to provide an option within the module to choose the old look? Any help is greatly appreciated.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #3 | SoundCloud Missing.png | 35.37 KB | jay.lee.bio |
| #3 | SoundCloud OK.png | 71.46 KB | jay.lee.bio |
| #2 | SoundCloud Original Old Look Settings.png | 10.49 KB | jay.lee.bio |
| #2 | SoundCloud New Look.png | 198.85 KB | jay.lee.bio |
| SoundCloud Old Look.png | 49.44 KB | jay.lee.bio |
Comments
Comment #1
jay.lee.bio commentedFor anyone looking into this, it looks like SoundCloud field has recently figured it out: https://drupal.org/node/2188503
Comment #2
jay.lee.bio commentedFor those interested, I just figured out how to revert back to the original old look:
1) Go to "Structure -> File types -> Audio -> Manage file display".
2) Go to "Display Settings" at the bottom and click the "SoundCloud Audio" tab.
3) Add the following to "Extra parameters": "iframe: false" (Without the quotes per attachment)
The old look is arguably the best option, but for me the original old look is still way better than the hideous new look. Until a solution is found, I am now somewhat happy. :)
P.S. The link to my website provided above now shows the original old look. The new look is uploaded here as an attachment for reference.
Comment #3
jay.lee.bio commentedIt looks like the original old look of SoundCloud has problems of its own. Here's what I found:
* The new look is ugly as hell, but it does always work. I know this because when the original old look doesn't work and I change the settings to the new look, it'll work. Then when I change it back to the original old look, it doesn't work again (it actually did work once, but I think it was just coincidence).
* The original old look often doesn't work. It's just empty, per screenshot attached. It's much better looking than the new look when it does work though.
I'll stick around with the original old look until someone figures out how to get the old look back. Again, any help is greatly appreciated.
Comment #4
devin carlson commentedAs Media: SoundCloud is implemented using the SoundCloud oEmbed API, it can only display the HTML returned by the SoundCloud oEmbed endpoint.
So your only options are between the visual and non-visual players. You can use the plain non-visual player by unchecking the "Visual player" option in the file formatter for your desired view mode.
Comment #5
jay.lee.bio commentedWow, it works. Thank you! :D