Audio player cannot find files

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  franaster · Member · May 27, 2012 at 2:49 pm

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  This is a sudden glitch. Now all my mp3 cannot be played by the player. My blog is: questing.wordpress.com. The music links are at: daddysloft.com/music/…
  Blog url: http://questing.wordpress.com/

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  justpi · Member · May 27, 2012 at 5:42 pm

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  Here’s the URL of the latest mp3 you have inserted:
  http://www.daddysloft.com/Music/SandraSanger.mp3
  It says file not found, so that’s not a WP issue.

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  franaster · Member · May 28, 2012 at 1:45 am

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  Actually, the file is called “sandra sanger.mp3” . I know the “space” can cause problems but it has never done that to me for all the years that the blog is active. I did check a music file without the “space” and it still works. It means that I may have to go through all the files now and rename them without the “space.” Why did WP do this suddenly? Is there a way to rename the files more quickly instead doing them by piecemeal (that is. if that’s the actual problem)?

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  justpi · Member · May 28, 2012 at 1:53 am

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  If the file is “sandra sanger.mp3”, then the URL you should have used is this:
  http://www.daddysloft.com/Music/Sandra%20Sanger.mp3
  And the WP audio player doesn’t like spaces and punctuation marks anyway, so better upload and use files with no such things in the file name.

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  franaster · Member · May 28, 2012 at 2:09 am

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  I know WP will normally insert the “%” automatically. Anyway, the “sandra sanger.mp3” file was working properly for two weeks until last night (I believe) when I removed a sticker file and unpublished it as “draft”, something which I have done many times before without incident. Thanks.

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  justpi · Member · May 28, 2012 at 9:47 am

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  WP changes things all the time (introducing new bugs some of the time). For foolproof results, upload mp3s with no spaces or punctuation marks in the filenames.