Im using podPress in two blog posts. The player works fine but the audio/mp3 button to download the mp3 file doesn't work.
On clicking it the page goes into a dark/semi-opaque mode (like a shadowbox) and nothing happens.
I tried de-/enabling the statistics function, changed and reloaded custom permalinks - no success.
Any other ideas?
thanx, Wolf
Podpress audio/mp3 download button not working (6 posts)
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wolf-d
Posted 11 months ago # -
Hi Wolf,
thanks for the report. But I'm not sure what may cause this problem. But it seems that it is no general bug. It may depend on the web browser (or maybe a browser plugin), one setting or something else.
May I have look at one of these posts? Could you tell me that of your blog (or maybe the URL to the post)?
Do you use the option "Absolute path of the media files directory (optional)" at the general settings page of podPress? Or can you tell whether or not the link behind this button is correct and leads to the file?
Regards,
Tim -
Posted 11 months ago #Tim,
thanks for your prompt answer.
Here is a link to one of the two posts:
http://blog.wolfsview.com/wordpress/podcast-1-return-from-outer-space/I checked both, with and without the "Absolute path.." option and unless I got the absolute path wrong there's no difference in behavior.
The link behind the button - as indicated by Firefox - is not correct and leads to a non-existing folder.
In podPress General Settings location of media files I used the same URL as in media location of the plugin within the wp-post. The player finds the .mp3 just fine...BTW, I'm using WP 3.1.3 and podPress 8.8.10.7
Regards,
Wolf -
The link behind the button - as indicated by Firefox - is not correct and leads to a non-existing folder.
That is only because you have enabled the statistics feature. That feature masks the URLs as long as it is active. If you deactivate the feature, the URL should be the original one.
Try to download the file this way: click with the right mouse button on the button and choose in the menu "Save Target As ..." (de_DE: "Ziel speichern unter ...").
It may work better because when click on the button with the left mouse button then the browser starts maybe a browser plugin to play the mp3 file maybe something is not right with that plugin.I could download the file via "Save Target As ...".
Regards,
Tim -
I took another look at the source code of this blog entry, especially the button and I discovered that the source code of the link of the button includes code of a shadowbox galery:
rel="shadowbox[post-1346];player=flv;width=500;height=0;". That code gets most likely added automatically to link elements around images in your blog. Maybe another plugin or the theme adds such code snippets. It is no code of podPress.... as you said "[...](like a shadowbox)[...]"
Try to deactivate the other plugin to see whether or not it makes a difference.
One solution might be to deactivate this button/icon and activate the text link ("Show Download Text:" on the general settings page of podPress, section "Post Content") as possibility to download the file.
BTW: The shadowbox is probably trying to open the media file in a flv player (probably a flash player). But I get an Javascript Error in my error console: "Error: uncaught exception: unknown player flv".
Maybe there is an option on the settings page of the shadowbox plugin where you can exclude audio and video files from the shadowbox.Regards,
Tim -
Posted 11 months ago #Thanks again, Tim!
>shadowbox: yes, the corresponding plugin caused problems which could be fixed by changing some of its settings.
>download button/text: after switching to text only the 'download' works, kind of... it actually loads it into the local QT-player and plays it there.
To actually download the .mp3 file one has to right/ctrl-click on the download text and then "Save Link" (in FF - which got me confused as I was expecting something like "Download Linked File" as in Safari).And it appears that even the statistics work!
Regards,
Wolf
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