rytox

Updated situation: Audio Player still does not work for me. I continue to get the endless “Buffering…” message on a four second mp3 file. I have tried on both Firefox 3.0.5 and IE7 with the latest Flash Player (10,0,12,36), but neither work.

Furthermore, when I click on the “Audio Player” button from the Media Library, the Link URL shows up only for a fraction of a second before disappearing. Despite this problem, I can hit Control+Z in the Link URL field to bring back the URL, but upon clicking “Insert into Post”, I get the following in my Editor:
<a href="[audio:http://www.startupcafe.org/dev/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/test.mp3]">test</a>
Which becomes this when viewing the post:

<p><a href="
<p class="audioplayer_container"><span style="display:block;padding:5px;border:1px solid #dddddd;background:#f8f8f8" id="audioplayer_1">Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version <a href="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&amp;promoid=BIOW" title="Download Adobe Flash Player">here</a>. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.</span><script type="text/javascript">AudioPlayer.embed("audioplayer_1", {soundFile:"aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zdGFydHVwY2FmZS5vcmcvZGV2L2Jsb2cvd3AtY29udGVudC91cGxvYWRzLzIwMDkvMDEvdGVzdC5tcDM"});</script></p>
<p>“>test</a></p>

When I click play, I get directed to a 404 error because the hyperlink tries to follow “>p class=”. If I manually type [audio:http://www.startupcafe.org/dev/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/test.mp3%5D, I still end up with endless buffering.

I am not familiar with Flash at all, so I wouldn’t even know where to start looking for problems with the Audio Player, but I hope that my description can help sort this out.

I am using WordPress 2.7 on the default theme with no other plugins active.

darrell,

Did you solve this? If so, how? This problem (endless buffering) is driving me batty!

Jules1247,

You wrote about “endless buffering”. I am currently having this problem too with the audio players from both podPress and Podcasting. The audio test on your blog works when I click play, so what did you change to get it to work? How did you get it to play instead of getting stuck buffering?

Thanks!

Akismet somehow missed something as obvious as “FREENUDETEENGIRL.COM” as a spam comment. Twice. Perhaps it’s because it was presented as “_FREENUDETEENGIRL_._COM_.”, but that still seems like unreliable detection to me. I’m hoping that given a short period of time this will improve.

That being said, I am also looking for a supplementary plugin to Akismet as a precaution.