We added our long tested mp3 player to our software library on July 3 2004. Here's a FAQ on the Flash MP3 player Flash MP3 Player FAQ

The download version includes the perl script for generating a playlist and is ready to run out of the box. Problems, feature requests, and general feedback are encouraged in this thread.

1. I'm a flash interface designer and I will need to be able to change the design of the player. Is this fairly easy from your fla source file? is it just changing symbols?

2. Does your player require any web server software?

3. Does it progressively stream Mps's?

4. Does it work with flash 6.0 plugin?

5. Will I be able to edit the player fla from a macintosh flash version? this is optional because I work in both platforms, but just wondering.

thanks,
paul

Hope this helps,
James True

My server requires that all cgi scripts are placed in the CGI-BIN directory, i have therefore places the entire mp3player directory in the CGI_BIN. Could this be a problem.

Also, when trying to view the SWF on its own, its just a blank grey box. Is this becuse it needs to be called from the cgi script rather than directly form a web page???

ryan@tigercore.com

Also, make sure the permissions are set on your index.cgi to 0755 (Execute On).

If you need to have your mp3 files outside of your cgi-bin that is fine too, a variable called MP3_BIN is written at the top of the index.cgi, change this to a custom mp3 folder if you want to, although not required.

you can find my install here...

http://www.trebsworld.com/mp3player/index.cgi

Everything seems to be working fine, except that it's defaulting to the volume off. (You have to click the volume slider once to hear anything...)

It seems to be auto starting ok, just with the volume down...

thanks,

thomas

All CGI/PL scripts, including the CGI-BIN, have 755 as the permissions. When I goto load the index.cgi, i see the player, but no loading. What gives? ---> http://www.widowx.com/index.cgi

"I had to change the permissions on the cgi-bin to 755, the cgi-bin/index.cgi file to 755, place a space after the call to #/usr/bin/perl in the index.cgi file.

All CGI/PL scripts, including the CGI-BIN, should have 755 as the permissions. Just a heads up. Also a space after the call to #/usr/bin/perl within the cgi/pl files is required."

I have now deleted all and started from scracth w/ everything stock. I still have the same problem. The player appears to load, but no activity. I've just installed it on IIS as well, and I'm getting the same problem. Does the script need to be manually configured/changed in order for it to function w/ the default track/mp3, or should it function w/out any changes? Thanks for your time.

Chris

Hi there, I bought a copy of MP3 Player and am very happy with it, would it be possible for you to answer a couple of questions for me please:

1/ I really need to get make the player invisible on the page and cannot see how to do this.
2/also if I wanted to move the player out of it's frameset I assume I would do this by altering the code within the index.cgi file ? - could you give me a pointer as to what section of code I would need to alter please.

any help apreciated and thanks for a great product.

regards. Sean

helppp

some questions that i have

1. How to get the flash player to have my website color only?
2. How to change the language for the flash player?

Thanks

The reason why I'm asking you those questions, is because I do not now anything about flash or the Flash MX player!

I just need some instructions to translate the player to a different language.

I looked thru the faq, but i really couldn't find the answers.

Thanks

thanks

i uploaded about 15 songs on my forum, and it went crazy, hahaha

Please help

http://www.zowiewowie.com/flashplayer/
http://www/zowiewowie.com/flashplayer/index.cgi

thank

Also, i noticed that you renamed the folder the mp3player is installed into. This is okay but you need to update line 7 in the index.cgi variable. Again, we are more than happy to do this for you, send your ftp info to the email address i sent you.

As to giving you ftp access.. well I get these nasty little virus emials from right winged groups and I just don't know if i want to chance that with someone i don't know and for something i just randomly purchased.. I wanted to understand how this works too... This is the reason I bought it to learn from clean code. SO lets exhaust all the possiblities.

but there is still the issue of the cgi program not working.. I have even tried to change the path in the first line (sometimes its different as I have read). I am refering to the part #!USR/bin/perl..i changed it around and still had no effect

sorry about spamming this board with all my problems but maybe it will help someone else.. I am beginning to hate Internet Explorer more and more as I try to develope and change pages.

Anyways, I admire your desire to do it yourself. Internet Explorer is not the problem by the way, nor is any browser. Nor do you need to change anything in the perl file on line one. I could guess all day about what happened. Glad to see you put it in the original folder named mp3player.

Tell you what. Since you do not want us ftping in, maybe we could arrange a phone call. You could be my eyes are ears. That way i am not on your server, you are.

Still haven't received any response from my email i sent you. Please consider responding to my email and we can arrange a phone call. And of course, if you want a refund, just say the word.

If it helps, the people who i have installed this for, their server was running cgi's out of the cgi-bin folder only. Not a problem, two lines in the begginning of the perl script need to be changed. Lines 20 and 21 specifically. This is where your server specifics come into play.
This is default out of the box...
my $MP3_BIN = "./";
my $MP3_BIN_URL = "./";

And if you run in the cgi-bin it would look something like this...
my $MP3_BIN = "../public_html/mp3player";
my $MP3_BIN_URL = "/mp3player/";

Above assumes your public_html is the name of your main web folder. public_html can have several names, and this is why we need to get on your server to see the name of this folder.

Again, we want you happy, let us know whatever we can do to get you going!

Remember: Upload Perl scripts in ASCII don't use the Internet Explorer FTP as I did. Get a good program and upload it in ASCII.

you can view it at

http://www.zowiewowie.com/mp3player/index.cgi

I designed all the music myself. enjoy..

thanks again

If you want a custom-coded solution, please consider requesting a bid from a custom software developer. Gigfoot specializes in ready-made tools which have a broad range of uses for the most amount of people. Hence our low one-time fee.

Button scripting in flash is well covered elsewhere on the web. In a nutshell, you want to open the mp3player, and change the action code for the stop button. Ours will pause playing of the song, yours will need to loadSound("blankmp3file") or loadURL("anotherpage").

Anyone have this problem?

I was surprised to find the FAQ to be so limited, considering the amount variables that can be passed to the player to change the way it behaves and looks through a web broswer.

Please list these commands for all of your customers to see.

BTW, the foreground color of the player is always derived my ghosting the bgColor you set in your url string for the player, so changing the foreground color also changes the background color. You can also change the color directly in your cgi script. Hope this helps.

> perl -wc index.cgi
index.cgi syntax OK
>
> perl -w index.cgi
Content-type:text/html

Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at index.cgi line 553.
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at index.cgi line 553.
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at index.cgi line 68.
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at index.cgi line 95.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at index.cgi line 103.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at index.cgi line 105.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at index.cgi line 105.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at index.cgi line 105.




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I don't know what to try. I uploaded it in ASCII mode. It is in the cgi-bin directory. I set the permissions 755, or -rwxr-xr-x. The player works fine when I don't use the perl script, but I want to use it to take advantage of more of the functions.

-Mec