Help getting audio player to work, please?

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  schoolhousezion · Member · Jun 4, 2012 at 3:27 am

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  Hi,

  I’m having problems getting the audio player to work, it won’t play the audio and says buffering when I try to get it to play.

  The audio is an mp3 and it’s uploaded to the site:
  http://rebeccarobinsondotorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/narrow-road1.mp3

  The code I am using is this:
  [audio http://rebeccarobinsondotorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/narrow-road1.mp3%5D

  You can see the player in the sidebar here:
  http://rebecca-robinson.org/

  Can anyone help?

  Thanks so much!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 4, 2012 at 3:37 am

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  It’s hard to tell from looking in the forum when you haven’t used the Code tag but this is the way it should look:

  [audio http://rebeccarobinsondotorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/narrow-road1.mp3]

  and it should definitely NOT have a live link in it, by which I mean a blue, clickable link. If it does, that’s your problem. Just put your cursor on the link anywhere and click the Unlink button. The code stays the same.

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  justpi · Member · Jun 4, 2012 at 5:55 am

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  @rain: What you’re describing can only happen if you paste the code in the Visual post/page editor. But in this case the code is in a Text widget.

  @SHZ: Try re-uploading the mp3 after removing the hyphen from the filename.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 4, 2012 at 7:06 am

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  But the MP3 works just fine. I tested it.

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  justpi · Member · Jun 4, 2012 at 9:25 am

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  Yes, so did I, the mp3 is ok – and the sourcecode of the OP’s widget is also ok. But the WP audio player doesn’t like spaces, punctuation marks etc: that’s the only possible problem I can think of.

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  schoolhousezion · Member · Jun 4, 2012 at 10:23 pm

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  Ok sorry for the slow reply. I’m going to try this right now and check back.

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  schoolhousezion · Member · Jun 4, 2012 at 11:00 pm

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  I removed the hyphen but it still says buffering. Frustrating!

  Any ideas?

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 4, 2012 at 11:11 pm

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  Try creating it as a regular draft Post and follow my Unlink suggestion. Then click to the HTML editor and copy all the code from there, then paste that into the widget. There’s a slim possibility that will fix it.

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  schoolhousezion · Member · Jun 4, 2012 at 11:18 pm

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  still not working. I also tried to just get it working in the post but it won’t work.

  I don’t understand why it would be linked or the need to unlink.. not sure if I’m missing something there but mine is not linked at all as I just entered the address of the mp3.

  Maybe I should try soundcloud