How do I replace broken Audio PLayer

  • billt2012

    (@billt2012)


    6 years, 2 months ago

    Hi.. The blog I am running has been in place some years using “Audio Player by Martin Laine” to play audios in the blog. This has just ceased working and caused my site to crash. I couldn’t access the dashboard without first disabling plugins through a FTP. The above audio player is no longer available. I have some hundreds of old audio blog entries that now just show the code for the above player eg:[audio:jp04022018.mp3] This directed the player to my audio file in the domain. Is there a simple audio player plugin that can be customised to replace the previous one? I have very little experience so I am looking for a simple solution… billt

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    6 years, 2 months ago

    You don’t really need a plugin:
    https://codex.wordpress.org/Audio_Shortcode

    Thread Starter billt2012

    (@billt2012)

    6 years, 2 months ago

    Hi Steve. That was very fast! Thanks.. That could be really great. How do I activate this solution? do I insert some code somewhere? I am quite inexperienced it this. As I have shown above the code already used on years of weekly posts is [audio:jp04022018.mp3] With audio: followed by the file inside square brackets. I’ll be over the moon if its really a simple solution.. Can you possibly expand on your explanation?

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    6 years, 2 months ago

    Just as shown in that document:
    [audio src="audio-source.mp3"] (replace the source, of course)

    or if you already have the MP3 file in your media library, just insert it like any bit of media

    Thread Starter billt2012

    (@billt2012)

    6 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks Steve.. I must be misunderstanding! Because I have loads of entries that used to play Ok with the [audio:(followed by the file name)] I need a solution that will play them without having to rename 300 plus entries. I have had a look at the link you recommended and don’t understand where I would make the changes to bring this about? Please see this link http://archive.life-church.co.uk/sunday/sunday-11th-february-2018/ as you will see it shows [audio:pd11022018.mp3] where previously it showed a small audio player symbol that you could click on and the audio would play from a directory named audio located in the archive domain. I do hope there is a solution..

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    6 years, 2 months ago

    Sorry, but you’re going to have to edit those entries to change format used by the plugin (which was not proper shortcode format) to use the newer audio tag.

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