Quick question.
Guys, I’ll be posting a real update later after the coffee’s done brewing, but right now I need you to answer a question for me:
Does the little streaming radio plugin in the sidebar automatically start playing for you when you load the page, or does it not start until you hit Play or load the mms:// stream directly into your media player from the link? I’ve got autoplay completely turned off in the embedding code as I find it wholly obnoxious to load a page in which music is forced on me and I have to hunt for a way to turn it off. So far everyone I’ve asked except one person has said that it didn’t start until they told it to. I’m trying to figure out if it’s really auto-starting for her or if she’s just trying to be a special little snowflake.
Let me know what browser and OS you’re using, as well. I’m planning to use the streaming plugin for monthly events later (I’ll explain more soon, promise) so it’ll help to know just how it behaves in readers’ browsers.
Thanks, and I’ll be back in a bit with something actually topical.
~Adri
P.S. Stop laughing at me for having a playlist full of Asian pop and rock. I have a very broad spectrum of musical tastes, but kept to mostly international music or remixes or things from game and film scores to keep the RIAA off my butt and out of 451 Press’s hair regarding music broadcasts from any artists they “own”. This is streaming directly from my hard drive, so who knows what else I might deem safe to throw on there as I poke through my vast musical collection.
November 21st, 2007 at 11:44 am
The Plug-In does not work for me at all, the link does work.
Windows XP Home 32-bits, IE 7
November 21st, 2007 at 11:53 am
That’s the way it’s supposed to be, if you’re an IE user. That’s why the link’s there. It works just fine in FireFox and Opera, but I think there’s something wrong on the streaming server that prevents it from working properly in IE - and since it’s not my server, I can’t fix it, just work around it.
As long as there’s no music playing without any user action, when you load the page. That’s my main concern.
November 21st, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Being a Mac user, I can’t see the player either through the page or the link, and can’t play WMP files at all. My usual fix is to use Filp4Mac to convert the files into QT, which I’m fine with. However, plug-ins do not work with Flip4Mac.
That being said, to the best of my understanding, WMP can still be downloaded on a Mac. I just have an absolute hatred of WMP and most things Microsoft/Windows, so I have elected not to download it myself.
November 21st, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Under Vista, direct link worked in IE, but I clicked like 10 times and it never played in the plug-in. It didn’t show up at all in Firefox.
Under OSX, it didn’t work in Firefox or Safari.
November 21st, 2007 at 1:03 pm
P.S., there’s nothing wrong with Asian pop and rock. I would say that one day I’m going to marry Gackt, but he’s too pretty. And my heart belongs to Rain.
November 21st, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Kujo: Rain is the most gorgeous being ever! WOW! *drool*
I’m running on linux kubuntu and I have to press play to listen to the songs ^^ I do enjoy them
I enjoy international music too, I have Fijan music on my playlist ^^ Asian music is a definite plus ^^
Peace, love and chocolate chip cookie dough!
November 21st, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Michelle: I’d be on a Mac, too, if work didn’t require me to use a PC.
Kujo: That’s the way it’s supposed to work in IE. In Firefox, it won’t show unless you have the Windows Media Player 11 plugin for Firefox. I’m thinking for Mac users, the whole thing’s a lost cause.
Lala: Working just fine for you, then. I think my complainer was just trying to be a special snowflake.
And you can both have Gackt and Rain, as long as I get to keep Jay Chou.
November 21st, 2007 at 1:23 pm
didnt even know it existed till you mentioned it. has to stream it direct, but its worth it.
November 21st, 2007 at 2:20 pm
No dice, Sanders.
November 21st, 2007 at 2:46 pm
That reminds me…do you use Kujo or Hikaru for your first name (well, in your online pseudonym)? I’ve seen you write it both as Hikaru Kujo and Kujo Hikaru, and I’ve seen Kujo used as both a first name and a family name, so I’m never sure if you’re using Japanese last-name-first protocol or the Westernized reversal. I’m not as familiar with Japanese first names as I should be (or Japanese anything, and my grandfather used to love to berate me for mostly forgetting how to speak the language - and he did it in near-unintelligible Okinawan Japanese, making it hard for me to even understand what I was getting yelled at for).
Also…I halfway wonder, if I stripped all the extra stuff out defining the media player type and just used the most basic of embedding tags, basically “embed src=mms://etcetc…” if that would make things work a bit more cleanly for everyone.
Edit: Nope. Just using the embed tag alone screws it entirely. Bah.
November 21st, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Hikaru is the first name, but everyone ends up calling me Kujo, anyway.
As for the code, if you send me what you’re using now I can take a look at it. Embedding mms:// addresses can be tricky, but it is doable (and across all major browsers).
November 21st, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Every time I start to call you Hikaru, I end up typing Hikari (…close enough in meaning, but still.)
I’d feel kind of guilty getting you to poke at my code that way. (Well, technically not my code…it’s the default provided by the StreamWebTown website, and I just tweaked it a bit.) I appreciate the offer to help, but I’d feel bad if you wasted your time like that.
November 21st, 2007 at 3:42 pm
I’m watching the clock, waiting for 5pm so I can turn my work cell phone off and lock it in a drawer before speeding off at 80 miles per hour. Other than stopping my solitare tournament (with myself, obviously) it’s not going to interrupt anything.
November 21st, 2007 at 3:47 pm
>.< I’d still feel bad, but I’m going to stop being stubborn and ungracious and just say thank you. Is it okay if I e-mail it to you?
November 21st, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Email away!
November 21st, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Sent!
November 21st, 2007 at 4:24 pm
It starts playing automatically for me as soon as I load the page (XP Home Edition, Firefox 2.0.0.9). I’m fine with it, as I am a lazy music listener who likes Asian-pop and various remixes, so I have started to just leave the streamer on all the time.
November 21st, 2007 at 4:27 pm
~facepalms~ So much for “autostart=”false”" doing a damned bit of good. I’m worried that might drive readers away.
November 21st, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Well, for all we know, the problem could be on our end, with the FF plugin or Windows Media Player itself (while I update FF religiously, I never use WMP anymore), and since it seems to be a very small subset of users, I doubt it has much of an effect overall.
Besides, if people are driven away by your taste in music, they obviously have poor taste and don’t belong here. :sage nod:
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:31 am
Asian Music beats American Music all the way. I prefer visual, anguro, oshare kei myself but it’s all good. Even Korean music’s good. If anyone laughs just tell them what I got told to say ” It’s only music, not politics!”
November 22nd, 2007 at 4:57 am
Finish metaaaaal ^_^
November 23rd, 2007 at 12:04 am
Finish Metal. Like H.I.M?