Audio player not working

I think you may have incorrectly uploaded the plugin. You opened one or two folders too many. You should have uploaded the folder called “audio-player” and the file called “audio-player.php” to your plugins directory. I think you went one or two folders too deep and uploaded just the contents of the “audio-player” or “upgrade” subfolder to your plugins directory. Go here, and you will see what I mean.

http://www.witinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/

You need to delete what you uploaded (relative to just this plugin’s files), and start again.

It sounds like a simple file path error. Make sure that the settings for the player actually point to the folder with your .mp3’s. You can also make the player background transparent on the same page.

Dashboard > settings > audio-player. If you left it in default mode, you have to create a directory named audio in your blog installation folder, and place your .mp3 in there. If your folder is somewhere else, just change the default path of “/audio” to whatever your new path is. At the bottom of that page is also a tick box to make the background transparent to blend in with your page, and additional settings that customize the player appearance to your liking. That should do it.

you need to make a directory called audio.

Create that directory inside of the same directory that your wp-content dir is in.

In other words, you want this:

wp-config.php
wp-settings.php
... more files
wp-admin/ <-- thats a direcory
wp-includes/ <-- another directory
wp-content/ <-- another
audio/ <---- NEW DIRECTORY

Put your mp3s in that audio directory.

manually enter this in your post

[audio:nameofyourfile.mp3]

I had clicked on “add audio” on the post wirting page and loaded my mp3 file in the medial library. I had thought that would do it but no…

You CAN do that, but then you need to change the path that the plugin uses for your directory, and that depends on how you have your uploads set up and can complicate things.

Assuming media is handled the same way, if you do that “sort everything by date” option when you upload, the plugin isnt ever going to know where the files are.

If you dont do that, and everything is uploaded into one big directory, then you can just change the path.

You referenced that path in an earlier post:

Audio files directory:
Recommended: /audio

/audio is the path.

Creating the audio directory made that path.

For instance, if you are uploading through the media thing to a directory called uploads, the path would be :

/wp-content/uploads

assuming that uploads is inside wp-content/

Like I said though, if you are used that date based option, thats not going to work out well, and youre better off just ftp’ing those mp3s …

bumping

can someone please tell me the correct syntax for embedding an audio into a post and/or page?

hi mosey
i had already changed the path and i had it set up correctly as [audio:xxx.mp3] but it isn’t working

i checked on firefox 3.0.1 and you can see the link above where i put a raw link but nothing shows below it where i expect to say a player embedded

on ie6 it takes forever to open the page (probably because it’s a large file). last time i looked nothing happened but i’m waiting for it to load up again to see if i have more luck