Install SoundCloud player via embed code
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I’ve looked all over the support and I’m finding conflicting information such as, WordPress.COM does not allow plugins or embed code (object html) *except* for SoundCloud….
Go to SoundCloud and they have the WordPress code but advise you to install a plugin. Catch 22 or am I confused? I can’t find a post resolving this.
I want to have a SoundCloud player embedded in a Page on bellawonder.com. That’s it.
Can anyone clear this up for me? I’d be grateful.
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Okay, I figured out my own confusion (self-hosted) but I’m still having a problem:
The SoundCloud player appears but will not play on WordPress. Here is my link:
I’m running the latest version of Firefox and have whitelisted domains both for WP and SoundCloud, so I don’t think it’s blocking anything. Can anyone else see this?
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The first thing I checked was the SoundCloud support page at http://en.support.wordpress.com/audio/soundcloud-audio-player/
The player is working there for me. Does that one work for you as well?
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Yes, it does work for me there. What could be happening in between Sound Cloud and my site that playback isn’t working? Does it not support sets?
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I tested added a new SoundCloud player to my test blog and it worked.
But I didn’t test it with a set. What is the URL where of the SoundCloud you want to add so I can try testing that one?
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Hrm. I’m not sure if sets worked before, but that share code looks the same as it does for individual tracks and those work. I’ll see what else I can find out.
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I may have figured it out. The SET was public but the individual TRACKS were private. Don’t know why the set would play but apparently that didn’t carryover. Testing now.
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Hmmm well for whatever reason, that embed code does work, but doesn’t show the set, and doesn’t play in order.
The code for the set itself:
[soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/1605085" height="200" iframe="true" /]
Still does not play.
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Alright something really weird just happened. As an experiment I put both lines of code into the HTML, like this:
[soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/1605085" height="200" iframe="true" /]
[soundcloud url="http://soundcloud.com/wonderrussell/sets"]
When updated, the set shows up AND plays.
When the second line of code is removed, the set does not load/play.
Thoughts? :)
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I think something may have changed on the SoundCloud side. We’ll look into it.
Thanks for the example with the two codes side by side! Noting examples like that is always a good idea. :)
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@starmack: The second shortcode you pasted above is useless. The first one should work – try removing the (wrong) slash before the closing bracket.
If it doesn’t then this will:
[gigya src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf" flashvars="url=http://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/1605085" width="456" height="200" allowscriptaccess="always" ]
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@justpi removing that last slash TOTALLY fixes it. Thank you very much.
Then I was able to remove the second shortcode that yeah, wasn’t’ doing what I wanted.
Now if someone can tell me why it drops track 4 on WP but not on SC
(http://soundcloud.com/wonderrussell/sets/secret-room) I’ll be a happy camper. -
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I’m using wordpress.com for my blog, and I am very happy with the possibility to embed the Soundcloud-player. Great for my band. But… for iPad and iPhone users, the player does not work, as it used to be based on Flash. That’s why the folks at Soundcloud developed a HTML5-version of the player. Which now is the default-player.
Problem resolved you’d say. That ís the case with self-hosted WordPress-blogs. But is not the case with the blogs at wordpress.com. Some issues with security apparently. I’d like to know if and when the Soundcloud HTML5-player will work with wordpress.com Thank you!
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