Mixcloud Player: Working for some, not for others (Mac vs PC issue?)

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    robinthefog · Member ·

    Hello,

    My most recent blog post (http://robinthefog.com/2013/05/31/grams-for-the-public-and-loops-for-the-poor/) features a Mixcloud set (http://www.mixcloud.com/RobinTheFog/cooking-for-willigoose-live-at-the-village-underground/) which works just fine on my mac, but when I load the page on my PC at work I get the message ‘Widget path does not exist, cannot load the player’, even though another Mixcloud set on the previous post loads up without issue.

    A quick survey on Facebook has resulted in some people claiming it works without trouble and others saying they’re getting the error message too. Would be tempted to put it down to a PC issue, but some of my mac-using friends claim they’re getting the error message as well. Any ideas on what’s causing this? There seems to be no pattern to it!

    Any help would be hugely appreciated!
    Best wishes,

    Robin The Fog

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    justpi · Member ·

    This is happening because you didn’t form the shortcode correctly. See these replies of mine:
    https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-embed-a-player-widget-from-mixcloud?replies=20#post-1137524
    https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/embed-mixcloud-on-wordpress-page-fails-what-am-i-doing-wrong?replies=8#post-1288047

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    robinthefog · Member ·

    Hi Juspi,

    Firstly, thanks very much for your reply. Secondly, I think the thing which is confusing me the most is that it works for some visitors to the site and not others, apparently at random. I’ve used your very helpful posts on this forum before and not had a problem and notice that another mixcloud set I posted last week works without any problem at all. But on this occasion it didn’t seem to work!

    I’ve fixed the code and it now reads:

    [gigya src="http://www.mixcloud.com/media/swf/player/mixcloudLoader.swf?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2FRobinTheFog%2Fcooking-for-willigoose-live-at-the-village-underground%2F&embed_uuid=68422e84-f829-4d23-b483-42d2adecf312&stylecolor=&embed_type=widget_standard" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="opaque" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="480" ]

    Does it look alright to you? Seems to be working on my Mac but then it was working before and I only noticed there was a problem when I logged into my website at work!

    Thanks again for your help!

    Robin

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    justpi · Member ·

    You’re welcome.
    No, it’s not alright. Turn it to this:
    [gigya src="http://www.mixcloud.com/media/swf/player/mixcloudLoader.swf" flashvars="feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2FRobinTheFog%2Fcooking-for-willigoose-live-at-the-village-underground%2F&embed_uuid=68422e84-f829-4d23-b483-42d2adecf312&stylecolor=&embed_type=widget_standard" wmode="opaque" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="480" ]

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