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Old 01-24-2009, 03:19 PM   #1
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Anyone know about embedding Flash MP3 players?

I am a complete newb when it comes to creating web pages. I created a page for my dads band a few years ago in FrontPage and it has since been butchered and needs to be thrown out and redone. I have DreamWeaver CS4 and I realize I know nothing about what I'm doing.

So, I have a basic design built up and it looks OK. I'm sort of learning how to use CSS sheets and I have the structure of each page setup.

What I'm working on now is adding sound clips one of the pages. I have always liked embedded Flash players rather than a link that opens a media player. I found the 1PixelOut Flash Player along with THIS tutorial on how to embed it into a non-WordPress page.

I followed the instructions and was able to successfully add one sound clip. I followed the instructions for adding a second and that worked fine. However, when I added a third things didn't go so well. The player shows up on the page but it does not play anything. It expands like it is going to play and then immediately retracts. I added several more songs and they all do the same thing. Only player one and two will work.

HERE is a screenshot of the code with players one, two, and three highlighted. Is there anything obvious there?

Does anyone know of any good web design forums for beginners?

EDIT: I figured it out. It was scarily simple. I had simply copied and pasted the code from player two to create the rest of the players and changed the MP3 path. I saw that Dreamweaver changed the "id=audioplayer2" accordingly to 3, 4, 5, etc. I did not notice that I there was a "playerID=" in the third line of the player code and that was at "2" for each player. I changed them accordingly and they all work now.

My inquiry into good forums for begginers still stands. If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them.
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Old 01-26-2009, 07:41 AM   #2
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The sitepoint.com forums is usually my first stop for web dev related stuff.

BTW, I'd use relative file paths, rather than absolute file paths (absolute file paths are the ones with the drive letters; relative paths relative to the location of the html file)
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Old 01-26-2009, 11:39 PM   #3
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Thanks ForceFlow I responded in my other thread which got moved to the same forum. I don't need this thread anymore.
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