New MP3 Playlist Generator Now Available

Have you wanted to stream your own MP3 music on your Gallery Creator slideshows or other pages of your web site, and racked your brain trying to figure out how to do it? If you never have, the good news is you never need to. And if you have, you don't have to anymore. A new MP3 Playlist Maker is now available on Class Creator and 2 different versions are available:

GALLERY CREATOR MP3 PLAYLIST GENERATOR: When creating new Photo Galleries or editing existing galleries, when you click the checkbox to add music to accompany your gallery you can now choose from embedding a Playlist.com player, or adding your own custom-uploaded MP3s. A good example of this in action can be seen on the Camden-Rockport High School Class of 1975 35th class reunion photo gallery. Note how the music pops into a separate window so you can click a thumbnail image to watch the slideshow and still control the music, change tracks, etc. as the slideshow progresses.

MP3 Playlist Widget: Look in your Admin links under the Statistics link and you'll see we have added a new Widgets link there. We have a series of internal widgets slated, and the MP3 Playlist Generator is the first to go live. It allows you to upload your own MP3s to the system and easily generate embed code to add the MP3 player to any page of your web site. High school songs, band songs, recordings of all types can now be easily added to any page of your web site without the need for complicated third party MP3 plugins.

And finally a word of warning: You are responsible for all content you place on your web site, so be sure you have the right to distribute mp3 files before uploading them.

Slideshows that can be added to any page of your site using your existing photos, countdown clocks and a variety of other cool things will be coming to the Widgets page over the coming months.

I like that Brad! I just replaced my small playlist at the In Memory section. I had it originally "invisible" but the player is so concise and blends nicely, so I think I will leave it visible. I assume as before, change height and width to 1 if you want a playlist invisible.

One other quick question.... One of my playlist.com, I selected a Pop Out style, so that classmates could keep the playlist running as they went to other pages of the website. Actually, I think they can still keep playing after leaving the site, but don't recall for sure. Can we do something like that with your new playlist so it will continue playing as they browse. I would of course have the standard disclosure that if you keep that playlist running, and go to another page that auto starts another, there might be a big fight between Bette Midler and Elvis with Jailhouse Rock! LOL

I'm having problems, Brad.

I uploaded 5 files at one time. Only the first file name appeared and was playable.

I uploaded 5 files at one time. Clicked on "Paste URL" (thinking it was to get the URL, not to add a file), Used the back button -- and all was lost.

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Retried:

I am able to select multiple mp3 files and watch as they are individually uploaded -- but only the first one ever shows up as an item on the list after saving.

BTW, the text reads "uploading image 1 of 3..." maybe change that to "uploading mp3 1 of 3..."

I can add them individually, but not more than one at a time.

Firefox latest version.

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Tried Chrome to add two new files to the same playlist. Watched them upload individually, but only the first one of the two actually got added.

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The code for the player isn't enough to create and convert a text file into an html page which can be used as the pop-out. A pop-out button would need to be added to the player with some instructions(?)

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Question: does the embed code actually change with changes in the content -- such as adding tunes, changing the name of files, etc. Could I delete all and add new tunes to the same playlist and still not have to modify the embed code?

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The name we give the playlist is apparently not used. It might be nice to use the name we give it as the title of the playlist. ie. "Music To Remember" for the In Memory page playlist.

I just tried it and it works great!!!! much better than the alternative, where some of the music stops working when licensing problems arise. Keep up the great work!

BTW, Brad, Grand Rapids was Grand, as was Holland, Lansing, Frankenmuth and Ann Arbor (with a brief stop at Ohio State to visit Nicklaus Museum)--8 days and 10 brew pubs! Michigan is almost as great for beer as Colorado and Wisconsin!

Hi John,

I've forwarded the feedback to the programmer so he can investigate it.

Jessica Good wrote:

Thanks... I can see that the files are in the file vault; just not showing up on the playlist.

I LOVE this! So easy to use. THANKS!!!

Glad you enjoyed Michigan Jim. I've been on the road all day and am now down in Kentucky so you guys are all ahead of me on this. John ny quirks posted above will probably be sorted out sometime tomorrow. The answer to #4 is yes, you can make changes to your Playlist whenever you want without having to recopy and paste your embed code. Since that's not intuitive we'll put in a little note to that effect just below the embed code box.

Excellent; thanks.

Perhaps you can offer both the embed code and the pop-out code.

We're looking forward to many new Widgets! This is a great execution. You've whetted our appetites.

Stay away from Kentucky's favorite spirits while you're passing through.

Will try. I've asked Al to work on either an automated popup solution or a pop out button. I'm driving down to the Gulf tomorrow so he'll just have to surprise me with what he comes up with.

Well, you guys pretty well covered everything last night after I called it an evening (doesn't anyone else out there sleep???)

Just for your information, I downloaded in one swoop 15 mp3 files into the player widget. It took them just fine. However, when embedded, only the first 3 songs will show.

I'm glad you are looking into my request for a popout player capability. I want my classmates to be able to explore what ever screens they wish, but keep the player running (with the traditional warnings of course.....I think I can "place" the player carefully and avoid that problem anyway)

Finally, since the mp3 files reside here now instead of from playlist.com,or whatever, are these using some of our Vault Space allotment?

Yes MP3s go into File Vault. At some point we might want to include some type of "ultra premium membership" level or something like that, that has more File Vault space in the package and direct email so things don't come from noreply@classcreator.net and other stuff. I've been thinking about that. It's becoming hard to fit everything in the standard package so for those who want it we might need to add a new tier. For now though anyone who runs out of File Vault space can get more for $3/mo. Back in the day (AKA a year ago) nobody was actually hitting File Vault limits but that's changing rapidly now.

http://www.porthuronhighschool.info/class_index.cfm?announcement_id=79394

I tried to adjust the height of the player; but am not able to display any more than 3 file names. Adjusting the 'height' DOES make the space occupied by the FLASH box taller (as seen in the edit window), but it doesn't make the player taller.

Even using the scroll bar, I can't actually SEE the 4th file name, but using the "next" icon, I can get to it and play it -- just can't see it.

Brad Switzer wrote:

Brad, you are always thinking.. Yes, some kind of Ultra Premium would be in order, or perhaps ALSO restructure the current Premium and pricing of course. I just looked in my vault and when I downloaded 15 MP3 files, my vault usage jumped from 48% to 87%. MP3 files are pretty big. Also, for a small class like mine of 83 classmates, 87% vault is pretty heavy considering I have only had the system for 5 months. After the Reunion next month, there will be wayyy more pictures and videos.

Still, I am really happy about this new player capability. My playlist.com had already 'removed' 4 or 5 of my 20 songs, now I own copies of them!!

Suggestions: The vault does not SHOW the MP3 files in the list as the dropdown is purely "images". Need another dropdown, or just show all and Sort by type file. Show the file size also would help to selectively "cull" out unnecessary stuff. Also, a Vault Meter on the Statistics Page would be REALLY NICE. Finally, on the Playlist Widget, I would suggest a DISCLOSURE like you did in your email......some classmates will press the issue about what ownership of stuff they upload, so a Disclosure again there would not hurt at all (i.e. - their Responsibiity and not ClassCreator!)

Maybe classes who will never ever use their full file vault allocation could rent out their unused space to those of us who favor "all you can eat" diners.

We can create a "secondary market" to swap space for services.

John Chidester wrote:

I'm able to scroll to your 4th file file. Can scroll Derrell's too. We'll probably reskin that and make the scroll bar more obvious.

Derrell Pulis wrote:

Most of this is coming. Sorry so short am on road in mountains and can barely get anything to go through.

John Chidester wrote:

Maybe classes who will never ever use their full file vault allocation could rent out their unused space to those of us who favor "all you can eat" diners.

We can create a "secondary market" to swap space for services.

Be careful or I may start having to refer to Admins as Monsters.

Brad Switzer wrote:

Brad, you BETTER NOT be typing/texting while driving. Leave that to the Plastic Surgeon guys for the Stars, like the one who recently drove off the cliff around Malibu. Thankfully his Border Collie survived............

My wife Pam is safely behind the wheel. Kids are watching a movie in the back.

When the new playlist widget is fully working, do we have any expectations as to how many MP3 files it can accept and play? For instance, would it be limited to 20 or so like Playlist.Com? It would seem logical that it could handle more, since the music resides in the vault versus another provider location.

I have already 16 songs loaded, but can only see 3, but can squeeze out that 4th one. Will the other 12 songs be automatically visible by scrolling when you complete this fix?

Not to appear 'anxious' about this really KEWL enhancement, think it will be fixed today?

Only just in case this observation might help you.....

In the Widget menu itself for the playlist, in reviewing my 16 loaded songs, when you click Play, that functions ONLY for the first 6 songs. Song number 7 through the remainder will not play, and shows counter of 0.00 / 0.00, unlike the others. See attached Snip file.

Hope that is a clue...

Any chance in getting an Optional, yes or no, to Loop (repeat) the playlist?

Any advise yet on proceeding with the new Player? Should I delete all, and try adding one at a time, basically adding all back in again. Or, should I just go make myself another margarita.........FOFL.

The one for my In Memory only has 3 songs in it, so I believe I am good to go for there (other than I would like it to "Loop" for the slow readers classmates.

The one for my Home Page will have 16 songs in it though, and it is not functional unfortunately.

For tonight you need to go have that Margarita.

Derrell Pulis wrote:

I also like the 'random' choice so I don't have to hear the same songs play through in the same order. Choice is good.

We are definitely "gettng" there. I see the loop and shuffle options, and can also now display 7 songs on the widget.

Two Questions:

1.How does the scroll bar work, or does it really work yet? I can't get down past the displayed 7 songs to essentially allow classmate to look at others and Select a specific song. All they can see is 7 of 16 songs, however, all will play, no scrolling.

2.I can't find how to use the PopOut script. Do I ADD it in Source with the regular Widget, or do I use Popout script by itself? Either does not display what I would expect a PopOut Button to tell system to keep playing as I move to other screens.

If the scroll bar isn't expected to function as I described, I can always limit my song list per widget to 6 songs. Then I could add additional widgets with 5 or 6 more songs. I won't do that just yet.

Brad Switzer wrote:

Brad's probably feeding them this propaganda:
http://www.classcreator.com/videos.cfm

Yea rather than cartoons i make my kids watch Class Creator Help videos, he he he.

Derrell I'll run your 2 questions past the Programmer for response. I think he's planning to reskin the output player.

Brad Switzer wrote:

Yea rather than cartoons i make my kids watch Class Creator Help videos, he he he.

Derrell I'll run your 2 questions past the Programmer for response. I think he's planning to reskin the output player.

Thanks Brad,
I'll try to be patient, which is generally hard for me to do as a Type Triple A personality......FOFL

Concerning the view I am used to seeing for a PopOut Player, see attached. Or, feel free to look at it on my website at "Music Hits - 50s & 60s. It is from Playlist.com and works real well, if they would stop "taking back" my songs.

Al is going to add a similar Pop Out Player button.

Arranging (deleting and adding elsewhere) my MP3 files has caused my Vault capacity to be exceeded. Now at 117.43%. Seems when I 'delete' an MP3, it apparently does not yet clear out of the Vault also. I'm sure that I have many DUPLICATE MP3 files in the Vault, but cannot find any way to see Vault MP3 files to clean out (only Images).

Could anyone clean my Vault of MP3 files that are duplicated? The ones I am using are all normal file names (renamed during inserting). Hence, I would generally expect that all the excess file are named #1 and #2, etc.

Even if you deleted ALL my MP3 files, I wouldn't have a problem with that as I have them stored on my hard drive here anyway. I could just do a quick clean upload again. So, if it is easier to delete all my MP3 from vault, then go for it.

I see all mp3s in your File Vault just fine.

1) Click Edit Site Pages
2) Click the Edit button next to home page
3) Click the chain link icon (not the yellow photo icon)
4) Click the File Vault tab
5) Delete mp3s as you see fit

Brad Switzer wrote:

Thanks Brad!!!

Derrell Pulis wrote:

I would almost think that we need a method to setup a new Player and add MP3 files directly from the Vault. Otherwise, if you wanted to reuse a song, it gets placed in the vault multiple times unnecessarily.

Nope that is not true. Note that on the Playlist interface we have provided both a Browse button to upload mp3s and a Paste URL button to point to any existing MP3s. Inside your MP3 Playlist editor you can mix and match doing both, even if the MP3 isn't hosted on this system or in your File Vault at all. This gives you the ultimate in flexibility to do anything you want.

I guess I don't understand exactly how to get the URL then. For instance I have one playlist setup for the Home Screen with several songs.

I want to make a second playlist at another location for LOTS of songs, and I would like to use some of the songs off the Home Page again. If I add the song from my harddrive, then it goes into the vault a second time. Are you saying I can add same song a second time from the Vault by using a URL? That would be kewl, so I don't have the same 5 MB song in the vault twice! If so, how do I do that?

Thanks Brad.

It's a good idea to get familiar with the path to your File Vault so you can easily reuse files. The quickest way to do this is as follows:

1) Click Edit Site Pages and click the Edit button next to Home Page
2) Click the Chain Link icon and then click the File Vault button
3) Select any MP3 file and then click the "Insert link"
4) While you can click Source now and get the full file path, it's probably easier if you save the page and then view your live home page
5) On the link to your MP3 file right click and copy the link path
6) Now open Notepad or something like that and paste it. Save it.

This is your File Vault link path. As you can see the name of the mp3 on the end can be easily changed. You can paste the path to any MP3 in your MP3 player in order to reuse the file.

Yayy, PopOut functions this morning. Could we consider a slightly modified name for the PopOut instead of "Launch MP3 Playlist. This seems confusing if you have it set on AUTO, and from the Home Page one would normally have it set to AUTO.

Perhaps something like "Launch MP3 Continuous Pop Out", or even just "MP3 Continuous Pop Out". Using the title Launch MP3 Player is confusing, because technically it is already launced in AUTO mode.

Other than that, looks like the only other thing is the Scroll Bar still will not letting you scroll down to see other titles. I can see the first 7, but not the rest of the 16 titles.

This is going to be REALLY Kewl, now that I understand the Vault a bit better.

Yes I think a better Pop Out button name is in order.

Let's try to put this scroll bar issue to rest. As far as I can tell this isn't nor has ever been broken. What specific player are you referring to and what page is it on? I can scroll all songs on all 3 of your players just fine.

You can change the button to anything you'd like. Just edit the text within the pop-out javascript.

Here's an example.

http://www.porthuronhighschool.info/class_index.cfm?announcement_id=79394

Being a control guy, I'd like to decide where the pop-out pops-out. I'd prefer an area in the upper right rather than the upper left.

Brad Switzer wrote:

It is located on Left Menu, 9th one down. Titled More Music -"Our Gen"

Thanks Brad.

Derrell Pulis wrote:

Hmmm, I switched to my Firefox, and as you say the scroll works fine. However, in IE8 it does not.??? There are 16 songs.

No problems found.
See Jing: http://screencast.com/t/YjcyZmM2YjQt

Would it be possible to fix so that when someone uses the Pop Out button that it automatically "turns off" the auto started primary Playlist. If you don't shut it off, but touch the Pop Out, you get 2 songs playing at same time.

This happened in both IE 8 and Firefox.

Passing suggestion to programmer, thank you!

Brad, I think your hunch is correct about Flash Player. Installing version 10.1 Flash, I get Error: Installation Failed. I will continue searching that issue, and pull the words off my site saying scroll does not work

Derrell Pulis wrote:

Brad, I think your hunch is correct about Flash Player. Installing version 10.1 Flash, I get Error: Installation Failed. I will continue searching that issue, and pull the words off my site saying scroll does not work

Well, now I don't know. I got Flash 10.1 installed on that earlier failure. I still can't scroll in IE8, but can with Firefox. Strangly, the same thing happens on 2 other computers here. Two PCs are Windows 7, and one is XP Pro....no scrolling. Then, I tried it on my Windows Server 2003, and it works just fine???

Derrell can you attach a screen shot of the non scrollable player?

Yes, attaching. I tried what I have to Record screen motion, but way too big to send. Now I have only the Player on the Home Page. It is removed everywhere else. I also removed the PopOut on Home Page, at least for now as way too easy to get 2 or more songs playing at once.

Just half hour ago, I had another Classmate on Chat, and she could not scroll either. Only problem she did not know enough to see whether using Explorer, but she said that she connects through AOL.

The scroll bar issue does not occur in Firefox. I also have version 10.1, latest Flash player on all PCs.

Hope this helps.

Derrell Pulis wrote:

I hope the plain still screen shot is descriptive. Perhaps I should get the recorder software like you used, that was way kewl. Basically, the still screen print, I have pulled the vertical bar all the way down, NOT displaying the songs past normal screen of 7. There are 16.

Weird... Well, I tell ya what, rather than spending a lot of time on this, we're going to reskin this anyway. Let's see if the same thing happens on the upcoming skin.

You should definitely check out Jing here. It's super easy to use, just click record and talk. That's all there is to it. Click one button to upload to the 'net and storage is free too. Can't beat that!

Brad Switzer wrote:

I am seriously considering NOT using both the Main Player and PopOut on the same pages. I am separating them onto different screens. It is way too easy to get double songs. Downside, I like Auto Start on my Home Page so those classmates less than computer knowledgeable get the songs going automatically. Is it even feasible to have the PopOut Player "selectable" to AutoStart? That may be dangerous too, not sure. Right now, to preclude as much as possible of this happening, I SEPARATED the Pop Out form the Main Player, with a Customizable Link, and a fairly long explanation of what can happen and how to avoid. If they go to this link to start the PopOut, then of course it keeps playing. Then if they return to the Home Page, double songs start

The way to work around that is NOT use Auto Play, but...darn!!! Catch 22.

Checking a few things here.

Just for the heck of it, I put the below small DISCLOSURE on my webpage for these MP3 files. Feel free to use it, modify it, or ignore it.

Disclosure: Most music is copyrighted and we must ensure that we have the right to publish MP3 files prior to uploading onto this website. All music is purchased from reputable download sites, and we upload the files to this VERY limited group of specifically Classmates from High School. All MP3 files are for the enjoyment of this small group. No files can be copied or downloaded for Unauthorized Use. Additionally, pages are Password Protected, so that no other unauthorized person may gain access.

I wish it were that simple. For the record though I have to state that you cannot purchase copyrighted music and then upload it to your web site. Not legally anyway. For instance, you don't have the right to purchase an Elvis Presley song and then upload it to your own private MP3 playlist on your site. The reason of course is because the web is public, and you are technically distributing the song. Better would be:

1) Publishing a home page MP3 playlist for non-logged in viewers that only contains MP3s you actually have the right to publish. And then publishing other MP3s in an announcement that only logged in members can see.

2) Not doing it at all. Which is the only thing I can recommend. While we're not going to be policing mp3s nor would we have any ability to do so anyway, I must restate that you are responsible for the content you upload to your web site. You own it and you are the Webmaster. So you should be very careful when publishing music and ensure you have the right to do so.

FYI Playlist.com claims to have the right to publish various music and I guess has some partnerships with the music industry. Playlist.com is the best bet for copyrighted music, and your own MP3 player is your best bet for music you own, such as choir songs, band songs, high school fight songs, and other recordings of any kind that you own the rights to.

Brad Switzer wrote:

Thanks Brad. I like the thoughts on a complex issue. I am just a little gunshy (probably rightfully so) that ignorance is no excuse in the law. Years ago, I had an acquaintenace essentially went to prison, but he was actively "reselling" copies of music..........that is extreme and VERY illegal.

So, I try to follow the guidelines, but where does one even find that when you purchase an MP3 say from NAPSTER whether or not you have the right to publish?

Seems to me that if any quesion, as you say, keep them Password Protected and only for Signed In Classmates, which is what I am doing. Would in your experience you just remove the little Disclosure verbage and follow these guidelines, or leave something disclosed like that to at least indicate legally I am trying and not completely ignorant to restrictions..........LOL

I'm hardly an Attorney, but I suspect your disclaimer doesn't protect you. Is it likely you're going to get in trouble doing this? Probably no. Is it possible you can get in trouble? Definitely yes. Most music services have in their Terms & Conditions somewhere that you are not allowed to download songs from their service and then republish them on your own web site. Most music is copyrighted so you don't really have to find out if it is or isn't. If you don't know that it isn't, then it is. It's pretty much that simple.

I think that I will pull the disclaimer, because having something there just indicates falsely that I am aware, potentially unknowledgeable, and possibly suspicious about my own activity.

I'm just going to Password Protect all the music, act dumb, and hope no one bothers about some old guy that cares about his Classmates........LOL, that's it for me.

Heh. I think that's a wise choice Derrell. While I can't officially condone doing it at all, password protecting pages with music significantly lessens the chances anyone is going to find or care about this.

It's me, the Question guy again. As the new MP3 playlist matures into its destined use being optimized, is there any kind of limit of number of MP3 files it would load? I believe most the places like Playlist.com was somewhere around 20 songs max.

Anyway, with the new Playlist with ClassCreator, it seems like numbers of songs might not necessariy be limited since using Vault at same server access. For instance, could you reasonably put the Top 100 songs of 1960? Or, is that not advisable? I don't plan to do that necessarily, and certainly not until we find out why several of my IE8 PCs won't scroll.

OH! And good news. With the stuff you taught me about the vault, I cleaned out some 70MB of junk taking space.

It's unlimited. Obviously if you add a huge # of songs the user would have to scroll a long way to see them all, but they'd all be in there.

Derrell Pulis wrote:

I'm just going to Password Protect all the music, act dumb, and hope no one bothers about some old guy that cares about his Classmates........LOL, that's it for me.

Derrell, here's a thought for you if you are so inclined to try (of course it might actually be easier if Brad & Company added this)--try using that little used Javascript command that removes the ability for anyone to "right click" on your song list (like I use at times on photos).

Or, if you really want to annoy everyone (even those who know the workaround for that Javascript No Right Click this one will get just about everybody: Brad, you stick that one in and I can tell you there is only ONE browser that one in 10,000 people ever use that will ignore that little script. You will sure get everyone else and NO DISCLAIMER required!

Thanks John. Unfortunately this isn't about people's ability to save the song from your site though. This is about their ability to play it at all. The minute you post copyrighted music that you dont' have rights to on your web site, you're in violation of the law. Whether or not somebody can resave the song from that point is irrelevant. You're allowing people who didn't purchase the song to play it, and you can't do that.

http://www.bmi.com/newmedia/

Broadcast Music Inc (BMI) licenses rights for music. Visit their website and watch their short video. You can obtain a license to play licensed performances on your website for as little as $320/year.

The license covers ALL the music that BMI controls. You don't pick a few songs and pay on the per-song basis.

The license fee depends on how you are using the music. If you have a 501(c)3 non-profit, the fees are less than if you are starting a website to compete with playlist.com, for example.

Whatever the license, the cost is going to be much, much cheaper than hiring an attorney to defend you in a lawsuit.

And most of the money collected by BMI goes to those creative types who wrote the songs you love to listen to.

Imagine a world without the songs we remember.

Excellent John! Thank you for sharing that.

John,

That $320/year sounded too good to be true. So I just had to go take a look for myself. Just as I thought--that number is merely the "starting point." When you factor in either the 8 or 12 cents a page hit, this could conceivably bankrupt someone. I used to have a service called "Musak" in my little office when I first went into business for myself. That service was $60/month which included the $500 annual license fee with the condition that I guaranteed to be a subscriber for 5 years. This was 25 years ago!

Brad,
Where do I paste the code for the pop-out player? Will it start automatically when entering the website on the home page and then continue to play as classmates move thru the pages? And what's the limit on number of songs or total play time?
Thanks,
Mike

You can paste the code for the popout player anywhere on the page. When the viewer opens the web page a new window containing the popup player will automatically launch and the music will start playing. The music will continue playing until the viewer clicks on the popup window and either presses the stop button on the player or shuts down the window containing the player entirely. There is no limit to the number of mp3s or total play time.

I'm still having trouble with the pop-out version. Do I have to use both sets of embed code together? And paste it anywhere on what page?? sorry to be so dense.
Mike

Hang tight on this, before I answer I want to make a couple of tweaks here.

Apparently, a change to the popout embed code got me going. Thanks.
A couple of bugs which I'm sure you already know about...only the first 7 tracks show up in the player, although all tracks are played...and selecting a track by clicking on it starts it playing, but doesn't stop the current one so "dueling banjos" or whatever.
Thanks,'
Mike

Tweaks are on-going. We'll post an update here when we the other items are resolved.

Thanks, several tweaks and updates to this area are coming over the next couple weeks which will correct this.

Quick question on these MP3s. Is there a limit to the length/size of the MP3 file (aside from the vault limit)? There is a possibility we may have an MP3 file created of an audio "meeting" we'd like people to be able to listen to easily. The meeting could be 60 - 90 minutes. Just a thought......

Only file size limitations will apply. That might be taxing on some users for a file that length. I would consider segmenting the audio clips into logical / smaller sections.

Just want to say that the player widget is awesome and a big hit on my site. Have received many compliments on it. Thanks again for another great feature!

Is there any status update available on the 2 problems I mentioned earlier (Track names only showing 7, tracks superimposing)?
Thanks,
Mike

7 track issue should be resolved in our next Widget update. That should be shortly after we launch the new reunion nametags feature, which with a little luck will be today.

Hi Brad, thanks for the new widget. Here's an observation for you guys to mull about.

I was looking at another groups' Photo Gallery where there were multiple pages of thumbnails. Of course on initial entry, the question box popped up asking if I wanted to listen to music or not came up. I clicked on NO. Moving to the next Page (2) the question came up again. Then going back to Page 1, the same question popped up yet another time.

Perhaps a session cookie associated with each "section" so the Music ON/OFF question is asked once, not for every page for that "section"?

It's not a major issue but could be an annoyance when you might have multiple pages of thumbnails (like one of our galleries, if I had setup that widget for that "page"). I don't know this applies to other CC Reunion "pages" or not.

Cheers! Allen.

On the hit list! Thanks.

Hmm, I just noticed that the Photo Gallery in question had a notice about Music being available and a "launch playlist" link at the top of the page -AND- a "Do you want to listen to music" in a popup box (that came up every page in the gallery)...

The popup player is much nicer now...all the track titles are available although not all at once. However, the random play (shuffle) feature doesn't seem to be working...the tracks always play in order

Thanks, random play issue fixed.

Brad Switzer wrote:

Brad, this so far seems to have fixed my issue also? The first access, not starting, as well as play 2-4 songs and Stop.....

I will keep an eye on it today to verify.

Yes, both of the reported issues were fixed.

Brad,
Thanks a lot, the shuffle feature is working. Not to be too much of a nit-picker but...would it be difficult to also have random first track selection...it always starts on track 1, then becomes random. Also, will it be possible to enlarge the popup player so that more, if not all, of the selections are visible...or at least have a vertical scroll bar to go thru them?
Thanks,
Mike

Would it be difficult to also have random first track selection...it always starts on track 1, then becomes random
>> In next update

Also, will it be possible to enlarge the popup player so that more, if not all, of the selections are visible...or at least have a vertical scroll bar to go thru them?
>> Scrolling marquee effect for long titles in next update

Random first track and scrolling marquee are working great!
Thanks, Brad

CC player worked fine for some time but now it does not launch at start up. When I go to the edit page it starts and looks fine. I must havr changed something but not sure what.

I was reading through the thread on the New MP3 Playlist... and noticed your note about Playlist.com. First, I will add that I am also looking forward to whatever kind of MP3 player that ClassCreator comes up with, and that I would prefer to use something that has been specifically designed for the site. However, I would add that I created a number of Playlist Players on Playlist.com, almost a year ago, and at least one of them has almost 200 songs on it. I find that I lose a few songs now and then, but they are easily replaceable. In several instances I have had to enter some of my own MP3s to my File Vault to assure their availability to the Player, but other than taking up what I consider too much space, they have worked just fine.

Oops, sorry. I thought this post would go straight to Anadarko High guy.
Edd

@ Brad,

The widget worked great for me with only one problem...
The link says "Launch MP3 Player". I would like to change the name. Where do I do that?

Thank you.

I'll check with the programmers to see if there is a way to change the text of the link.

Jessica
Class Creator Support

I "think" we used to be able to do that up until a month or two ago. The Player script was much longer, and included in that script the name of button "Launch MP3 Player". You could just edit that script with any name you wanted like "Warrior Music" or whatever. That was nice to be able to do that.

The programmer has added a link caption option for you to change the text link - it is listed under the radio button selection options:

Link Caption:
(for TEXT LINK option only)

Thank you.

Good to know.
How do I use it?
It probably very useful for all kinds of things.
Can you or your team send me a step by step tutorial of how to use it?

First,I now have a playlist.com jukebox on my homepage. I was told if I use the widget ,I could control it better.
Second, can I use the original Jukebox info,or do I have to start from scratch(which will be fine).
Third, once I get the new jukeox working, can you tell me haoe to delete the first one or replace it on the homepage?
Fourth, can I use this program to put a countdown clock on my site?

Neil,
Once you have a MP3 to work with, I can help you get your widget up and running. I will also help you remove your old players.

I've chosen the pop-out for the music player. I want to place it in an announcement on the home page.

The problem is that annoying pop-out message about "Do you want to listen to music?". Is it possible to disable that?

The default source code already includes a link in the text "Music accompanies this page" with a clickable link.

As during a single visit to the website, the user may return to the home page several times, each time they will have to answer that pop-out question, I think they will get annoyed.

Is it possible to have that message only pop-out once during a session? or not at all by our choice?

See this link, for example.