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Re: Pop Up Mp3 flash player?

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Jan 8th, 2009

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Originally Posted by jproducer

Not to mention i am a great believer in using quicktime rather than windows anyway. Oh wait, I'm a mac user.

Also, when you update quicktime, does it not ask you what mime types to associate?

No, it does not. Like a bull in a china shop, it does what it wants.

You can set it to not do this. But when it automatically updates the nest time, it turns off that setting. If you don't notice that the setting was turned off, the following time it updates, it grabs all of the file defaults in Windows Explorer. I have even seen it grab file types it can't play.

It also installs itself in such a way that it can't be uninstalled without reinstalling Windows.

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Re: Pop Up Mp3 flash player?

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Originally Posted by roryt

Midimagic: This uses the default play on the computer, that is the point!

What if you don't have a player installed that plays that kind of file?

I have to have three different audio players just to play the files I do have, and there are other file types I can't play, because I have problems with the way the players for those files affect computers.

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Re: Pop Up Mp3 flash player?

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Jan 8th, 2009

Well I don't use realplayer at all because of the reason... it is really dodgy.

Itunes and VLC seem to do the job for me though.

Good point though, if you don't have quicktime or windows media player for WMV and MOV files, what does it do!?

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Re: Pop Up Mp3 flash player?

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As you can see in the below code, this is not the "be all end all" answer for all of us out there. In the code it looks like it only deals with variables for two different mime types and let's your computer decide how to handle, but I have not experiemented on a machine without windows media or quicktime, so I'm not 100% sure.

I'm still on the search because I honestly think .flv would be a better answer for what I was looking for, i am just not savvy enough to write my own scrip on this or have found anything that is easily customizable to fit my site. I'm glad for all the feedback though. Maybe we'll actually find a good solution for all.

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// Pop-Up Embedder Script by David Battino, www.batmosphere.com
// Version 2006-05-31 
// OK to use if this notice is included
 
function BatmoAudioPop(filedesc,filepath,WindowNumber) {
   // Get Operating System 
   var isWin = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("windows") !=-1
   if (isWin) { // Use MIME type = "application/x-mplayer2"
      visitorOS="Windows";
   } 
   else { // Use MIME type = "audio/mpeg"; // or audio/x-wav or audio/x-ms-wma, etc.
      visitorOS="Other";
   }
 
   // Get the MIME type of the audio file from its extension (for non-Windows browsers)
   var mimeType = "audio/mpeg"; // assume MP3/M3U
   var objTypeTag = "application/x-mplayer2"; // The Windows MIME type to load the WMP plug-in in Firefox, etc.
   var theExtension = filepath.substr(filepath.lastIndexOf('.')+1, 3); // truncates .aiff to aif
   if (theExtension.toLowerCase() == "wav") { mimeType = "audio/x-wav"};
   if (theExtension.toLowerCase() == "aif") { mimeType = "audio/x-aiff"};    
   if (theExtension.toLowerCase() == "wma") { mimeType = "audio/x-ms-wma"};
   if (theExtension.toLowerCase() == "mid") { mimeType = "audio/mid"};
   // Add additional MIME types as desired
 
   if (visitorOS != "Windows") { objTypeTag = mimeType; // audio/mpeg, audio/x-wav, audio/x-ms-wma, etc.};
      PlayerWin = window.open('',WindowNumber,'width=320,height=217,top=0,left=0,screenX=0,screenY=0,resizable=0,scrollbars=0,titlebar=0,toolbar=0,menubar=0,status=0,directories=0');
      PlayerWin.focus();
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<html><head><title>" + filedesc + "</title></head>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<body bgcolor='#9999ff'>"); // specify background img if desired
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<div align='center'>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<b style ='font-size:18px;font-family:Lucida,sans-serif;line-height:1.6'>" + filedesc + "</b><br />");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<object width='280' height='69'>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<param name='src' value='" + filepath + "'>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<param name='type' value='" + objTypeTag + "'>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<param name='autostart' value='1'>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<param name='showcontrols' value='1'>");    
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<param name='showstatusbar' value='1'>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<embed src ='" + filepath + "' type='" + objTypeTag + "' autoplay='true' width='280' height='69' controller='1' showstatusbar='1' bgcolor='#9999ff' kioskmode='true'>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("</embed></object></div>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<p style='font-size:12px;font-family:Lucida,sans-serif;text-align:center'><a href='" + filepath +"'>Download this file</a> <span style='font-size:10px'>(right-click    or Control-click)</span></p>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<form><div align='center'><input type='button' value='Close this window' onclick='javascript:window.close();'></div></form>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("</body></html>");
      PlayerWin.document.close(); // "Finalizes" new window
// Pop-Up Embedder Script by David Battino, www.batmosphere.com
// Version 2006-05-31 
// OK to use if this notice is included
   
function BatmoAudioPop(filedesc,filepath,WindowNumber) {
   // Get Operating System 
   var isWin = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("windows") !=-1
   if (isWin) { // Use MIME type = "application/x-mplayer2"
      visitorOS="Windows";
   } 
   else { // Use MIME type = "audio/mpeg"; // or audio/x-wav or audio/x-ms-wma, etc.
      visitorOS="Other";
   }

   // Get the MIME type of the audio file from its extension (for non-Windows browsers)
   var mimeType = "audio/mpeg"; // assume MP3/M3U
   var objTypeTag = "application/x-mplayer2"; // The Windows MIME type to load the WMP plug-in in Firefox, etc.
   var theExtension = filepath.substr(filepath.lastIndexOf('.')+1, 3); // truncates .aiff to aif
   if (theExtension.toLowerCase() == "wav") { mimeType = "audio/x-wav"};
   if (theExtension.toLowerCase() == "aif") { mimeType = "audio/x-aiff"};    
   if (theExtension.toLowerCase() == "wma") { mimeType = "audio/x-ms-wma"};
   if (theExtension.toLowerCase() == "mid") { mimeType = "audio/mid"};
   // Add additional MIME types as desired
   
   if (visitorOS != "Windows") { objTypeTag = mimeType; // audio/mpeg, audio/x-wav, audio/x-ms-wma, etc.};
      PlayerWin = window.open('',WindowNumber,'width=320,height=217,top=0,left=0,screenX=0,screenY=0,resizable=0,scrollbars=0,titlebar=0,toolbar=0,menubar=0,status=0,directories=0');
      PlayerWin.focus();
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<html><head><title>" + filedesc + "</title></head>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<body bgcolor='#9999ff'>"); // specify background img if desired
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<div align='center'>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<b style ='font-size:18px;font-family:Lucida,sans-serif;line-height:1.6'>" + filedesc + "</b><br />");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<object width='280' height='69'>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<param name='src' value='" + filepath + "'>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<param name='type' value='" + objTypeTag + "'>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<param name='autostart' value='1'>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<param name='showcontrols' value='1'>");    
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<param name='showstatusbar' value='1'>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<embed src ='" + filepath + "' type='" + objTypeTag + "' autoplay='true' width='280' height='69' controller='1' showstatusbar='1' bgcolor='#9999ff' kioskmode='true'>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("</embed></object></div>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<p style='font-size:12px;font-family:Lucida,sans-serif;text-align:center'><a href='" + filepath +"'>Download this file</a> <span style='font-size:10px'>(right-click    or Control-click)</span></p>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("<form><div align='center'><input type='button' value='Close this window' onclick='javascript<b></b>:window.close();'></div></form>");
      PlayerWin.document.writeln("</body></html>");
      PlayerWin.document.close(); // "Finalizes" new window