embed mixcloud on wordpress page fails. What am I doing wrong?

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  electronicundergroundradio · Member · May 31, 2013 at 4:30 pm

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  Here’s the wordpress page in question:
  http://electronicundergroundradio.wordpress.com/episodes/

  I’m trying to embed this mixcloud cloudcast:
  http://www.mixcloud.com/electronicundergroundradio/eu-e-03/

  I followed the instructions here:
  http://support.mixcloud.com/customer/portal/articles/1064710-how-to-embed-a-cloudcast-on-wordpress-

  Here’s the code I use:
  [gigya src="http://www.mixcloud.com/media/swf/player/mixcloudLoader.swf?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Felectronicundergroundradio%2Feu-e-03%2F&embed_uuid=0ee01a03-e393-4fe3-898f-4481e7e93c60&stylecolor=&embed_type=widget_standard" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="opaque" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="480"]

  When I view the page, the cloudcast player starts to load, and then gives me the error “widget path does not exist, cannot load the player”

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  timethief · Member · May 31, 2013 at 5:34 pm

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  See here for the gigya shortcode workaround for mixcloud > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/gigya-shortcode-3-widgets/

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  electronicundergroundradio · Member · May 31, 2013 at 5:37 pm

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  Yeah, if you look at my code, I used the gigya shortcode. As far as I can tell I used it correctly based on your link and the instructions link in my OP.
  Am I screwing up the code somehow?

  Thanks

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  timethief · Member · May 31, 2013 at 5:38 pm

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  Did you check out the post I linked to above?
  See also http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/alternative-audio-players/

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  electronicundergroundradio · Member · May 31, 2013 at 5:41 pm

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  Yeah I looked at your link… as far as I can tell I’m using the gigya code correctly. [gigya src="my url" arg1="value" etc...]

  As for the second link, I’d prefer to get it working just using the mixcloud player. I know it’s possible, it just doesn’t seem to be working for me.

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  justpi · Member · May 31, 2013 at 10:41 pm

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  No, you’re not using it correctly. When the embed code says:
  src=”URL?ETC”
  you must turn it to this:
  src=”URL” flashvars=”ETC”

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  electronicundergroundradio · Member · Jun 1, 2013 at 1:10 am

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  justpi — thanks for your help. Unfortunately, I’m not quite following. Can you please point out how exactly I need to change the following code?

  [gigya src="http://www.mixcloud.com/media/swf/player/mixcloudLoader.swf?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Felectronicundergroundradio%2Feu-e-03%2F&embed_uuid=0ee01a03-e393-4fe3-898f-4481e7e93c60&stylecolor=&embed_type=widget_standard" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="opaque" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="480"]

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  justpi · Member · Jun 1, 2013 at 6:42 am

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  When there’s a questionmark after the swf URL, the src URL must be up to the questionmark, and the rest is the variables. So, in your case,
  [gigya src="http://www.mixcloud.com/media/swf/player/mixcloudLoader.swf" flashvars="feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Felectronicundergroundradio%2Feu-e-03%2F&embed_uuid=0ee01a03-e393-4fe3-898f-4481e7e93c60&stylecolor=&embed_type=widget_standard" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="opaque" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="480"]

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  electronicundergroundradio · Member · Jun 2, 2013 at 1:13 am

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  Ah! That did it! Thank you!!!