Did you ever find a solution for your problem? I too am looking for the same type of functionality and my only options are frames or ajax. The problem with ajax is some of the IE issues. As much as I would love to scream at my clients for using older versions of IE, it just happens. So, Ajax is not always the best answer.
So, I’m just curious if you ever figured this out… if you have, please share. 🙂
Thanks!
automatically-playing music is incredibly annoying, even for music sites… I *hate* that most people are so accustomed to it now, that you almost HAVE to do it, or people start scratching their heads and wondering why you didn’t.
set up a page with a pretty music player and a playlist, and just let visitors open that in a tab (or a new browser window) while they surf around – or go off to a completely different website.
chances are, even if you only have 3 songs on the site, you’re likely to have 10 minutes of other content to keep people busy while they listen, so why not make it easy for them to go wherever they want, while they keep a tab or a window open?
better yet… set up a playlist that opens streaming music in their favourite music player (or windows media player, if they don’t have a favourite)… with album art, and the whole deal.
take the music out of the damned browser in the first place.
Whether I agree with you or not, I still have to follow the demands of my clients. Thank you for your suggestions, but when dealing with professional recording artists, you do not exactly have the option to tell them “no”… they will just end up going elsewhere. I already have a full discography page with the option to play tracks or purchase them.
Even though you may have thought your post was justified as a suggestion, I consider this a little inappropriate to be so forceful with your opinions. Support threads are meant to help, not upset people.
Good luck with your endeavors. I hope that this thread can provide some more beneficial support to the topic at hand.
oh for crying out loud… whiney cry-babies ‘r’ us…. Please don’t venture out of your circle of friends if you can’t handle alternative opinions, and ideas other than your own upset or bother you.
I expressed an opinion, maybe a strong opinion, but mine to express, and I didn’t do it rudely.
Asking people to shut up is FAR more forceful than anything I could have said. Don’t like what I had to say? feel free to ignore it, but if you ask people to bottle their opinions, then YOU are the rude and forceful one.
Frankly, it’s pretty stupid to limit the scope of responses you get on a topic with no direct solution. There is *no* way to magically do what you want, so if you want it solved, you’ll have to think outside your comfort zone.
…. or don’t, its up to you, but in the mean time, lets see how effective you are at stifling others’ opinions in a thread with no responses even *beginning* to address your impossible request.
There is nothing wrong with expressing opinions. Being helpful is what this forum is for… and you are not being helpful. It is a rather difficult request that I expressed my interest in. I now see that there are some people around here that post just to waste my time.
bye.
damn i missed yet another party, I must be getting old. 😛
There’s still room on my dance card, Whoo 🙂
Perhaps she would have been happier with no responses at all. That’s just not how I roll 😛
Whether I agree with you or not, I still have to follow the demands of my clients.
If my client “demands” something so asinine, I’d fire him on the spot. I don’t need his money that bad. Bad web design practice is bad web design practice. I suppose if your client wanted a hideous tiled background, rotating GIFs and dancing hamsters, you’d give him that too? Grow a backbone. YOU are the professional web designer, HE is the professional .. whatever he is. And I’ll reiterate what Ivo said. Music playing upon a page load is just plain annoying, I don’t care if it’s a musician’s site or not.
I’m sure you’ll slam me for saying this, but if you think about it, you’ll realize that you DO have a choice. YOU’RE IN CHARGE HERE. Your client looks to you for good web design practice. Now go give it to him. 🙂
I would love to see an answer to the original question, as I have been looking for the same thing.
Just to clarify, the original question said nothing about automatically-playing music. This seems to have been assumed by Ivovic, who, in my estimation, did come off a bit rude (though no one but he himself suggested as much).
As for who is in charge – the professional or the client – the client is always in charge because they are the one with the money. You wouldn’t want someone at Burger King telling you that it’s asinine to have mayo on your burger.
Music playing on page load is not something to make a last stand over. Plenty of sites – particularly musician sites – do it and plenty of users actually like it. I will voice my opinion to my client, but I will ultimately trust that they know their audience better than I do.
But I digress. The original question was – is there a way to have a flash music player in your WordPress template that will play persistently thru navigating the different pages of the site.
I seems that the simple answer may be “no”.
As for who is in charge – the professional or the client – the client is always in charge because they are the one with the money.
Your Burger King analogy is disengenuous. IMHO neither the fry cook nor the waitstaff at BK are professionals with regard to my hamburger. And how I like my hamburger has nothing to do with professional standards. It’s a matter of personal taste. A professional is someone who has specialized knowledge and training; e.g., a lawyer, doctor, architect, web developer, etc. Do you really think you can second-guess your surgeon simply because you are his patient/client?
But yeah, I think the short answer here is “no.” [On both counts.] 🙂
Our web manager suggested that to me that you take a look at the web site Jamendo.com – which distribute free albums and tracks for new music artist? Your artist can upload to their site and then the site creates a widget that can then be copy and pasted into a web site. For example – widget code for one album (folk rock band CeiliMoss came out as:
<div align=”center”><object width=”200″ height=”300″ classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″ codebase=”http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0″ align=”middle”> <param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”always” /><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent” /> <param name=”movie” value=”http://widgets.jamendo.com/en/album/?album_id=21299&playertype=2008″ /> <param name=”quality” value=”high” /> <param name=”bgcolor” value=”#FFFFFF” /> <embed src=”http://widgets.jamendo.com/en/album/?album_id=21299&playertype=2008″ base=”http://widgets.jamendo.com/en/album/” quality=”high” wmode=”transparent” bgcolor=”#FFFFFF” width=”200″ height=”300″ align=”middle” allowScriptAccess=”always” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer”> </embed> </object></div>
Andrew’s other suggestion was to open a flash player in a new window that would then feed the music.
I hope this helps.
Sam
Shogren Consulting
