Audio Player
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Hi, just now starting a wordpress.com blog for my employer. Haven’t been on WordPress much for the past 3-months, so my personal blog hasn’t been getting much attention. But I can see there have been changes throughout wordpress.com in recent months.
My issue tonight is the audio player. I’ve just purchased the space upgrade for my employer’s new blog. I uploaded an mp3. However, when I preview the page, I don’t see the familiar mini-player that I’m used to seeing. I even published the page (briefly) and tested the link. Once again, I held my cursor over the text for the audio link and the player does not play (when adding this link, I had made sure to select the URL ending in “.mp3”).
Yep, I can click the link and get a new mostly blank page with only the quicktime-looking audio player. But that sole option is not the outcome I want here.
I’ve been searching the forums…but to no avail yet. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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We really do require a link to the blog in question, starting with http, before answering any technical questions. The automated form doesn’t post the URL, alas.
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Correction: In 2nd paragraph (last sentence), meant to write:
“Once again, I held my cursor over the text for the audio link and the player does not APPEAR..”
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http://licensingexpress.wordpress.com is the link to the blog. However, the specific page in question is not published at this moment.
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You don’t hover your cursor and the player appears. The player looks like this:
It sounds like you just uploaded the MP3 and inserted it in the post. You still have to use the [audio=URL] format instead of just URL.
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Thanks, I’ll give that a shot. Until I took a new job about 3-months ago, I blogged a lot with my personal wp blog for about a year and put up several mp3’s. In those cases, I’d somehow done it so that a player would appear when holding cursor over link for an mp3 file. Either, I’ve gotten my methods or terms mixed-up…or there have been some changes regarding audio files on wp. Probably the former. Thanks again! I really appreciate your prompt help.
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Okay. Followed your lead raincoaster and got the player on my post and it does work. Thank you. This isn’t the “player” I had on my other wp blog a few months ago, but it’ll do the job just fine.
On the Audio Player you’ve just helped me get onto my post, the words “track 1” appear. Is there a way to change that text? I’d prefer it say something about the name of the podcast (this is an mp3 podcast audio file). -
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