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    My Client wants music on her site. I know, right (the customer is always right, lol) I went to validate the page and its nod valid however I embedded it. how can i embed the music properly in a page. No controls. Just autoplay and repeat.
    • CommentAuthorMike Weiss
    • CommentTimeJul 8th 2008 edited by Mike Weiss on the 08th July 2008 at 14:24:17 EDT
     
    Hide a flash player somewhere. I would suggest to your client that it can get very annoying, and if they are still adamant about you putting music on the website, push them to allow you to limit play time, or at least put controls somewhere.

    FYI... the client always thinks they are right. If you know better you are allowed to try to modify the way they think.
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    if i do display: none will it still play?
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    yes it will. display:none just hides the visibility of the object, but hiding the object won't bypass it's validation. anyway browsing a page that has a hidden music player that can't be stopped can get really annoying. you should really discuss this with your client. i see it a greater problem than code validation
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      CommentAuthoracousticsam
    • CommentTimeJul 8th 2008 edited by acousticsam on the 08th July 2008 at 17:23:34 EDT
     
    Posted By: crossfadesignanyway browsing a page that has a hidden music player that can't be stopped can get really annoying.
    Agreed. Especially when you've got iTunes playing in the background, then WHAM! another song comes in the mix and it sounds like crap. Controls are necessary. Even if it's just a little pause/play button in the top corner.

    There's a neat little player on this page: http://flash-mp3-player.net/ (second one down on the left)... Just a play/pause, that's all you need.
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    i don't see the download for the tiny play/pause button
    • CommentAuthorwfiedler
    • CommentTimeJul 9th 2008
     
    i don't see the download for the tiny play/pause button


    Connor: read carefully the descriptions on the website. You must configure the Flash object parameters. There are no separate downloads for the "tiny" buttons. At least I think so.
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      CommentAuthoracousticsam
    • CommentTimeJul 9th 2008 edited by acousticsam on the 09th July 2008 at 17:34:01 EDT
     
    Posted By: wfiedlerYou must configure the Flash object parameters.

    That's right, you do need to configure it. Fortunately, you can do this online before you download the code.

    - choose the maxi button
    - go to generator
    - change width to 25
    - change the category to buttons of the player bar
    - change showslider to 0

    The code will have changed to suit your configuration; it's at the bottom of the page for you to copy. You only need to copy the first box (HTML code) and paste it in your page. The other two boxes of code are if you want to configure the paramaters from an externl file, rather than from the inline param tag.

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