Error opening file...

[Hi Ho]

I have been battling this problem for quite some time now and I have not found a solution. I have helped my father with his band website. I'm using Dreamweaver and everything is working fine except the audio page where I have placed sound clips from their CD.

http://runawaytrainbluegrass.com/sound_clips.html

I am using the 1PixelOut Flash Player and have followed THESE instructions.

When I open the page in Internet Explorer 8 everything works perfectly. When I open the page in Firefox 3.5 the first player doesn't show up and all of the others give me an "Error Opening File" message. I thought maybe it was the AdBlock extension but disabling that does nothing. I have attached a screenshot of the code for the first player.

What am I doing wrong?

On an unrelated note; Something that has been bugging me is the fact that the page is not centered when viewed in Firefox. Again, it is centered in IE but not Firefox and I cannot figure out why.

[Statica]

Have you tried using absolute links instead of relative ones in your parameters? For example .. right now you've got

PHP Code:

<param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=1&soundFile=sounds/Pickawaymusic.mp3"> 


Have you tried making it:

PHP Code:

<param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=1&soundFile=http://www.runawaytrainbluegrass.com/sounds/Pickawaymusic.mp3"> 


.. which by the way doesn't work... so I'm guessing it is in a different directory.

Also check:

PHP Code:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data=" ... ... ... " id="audioplayer1" height="24" width="290"> 


you're missing a " after data=

Re: centering .. Don't know what you're seeing .. but looks the same on FF 3.5.x and IE 8.x

[Hi Ho]

I got the first clip working! I added that quotation mark and it now works in Firefox. The others, however, still do not work and I am not seeing anything different about the code on the subsequent players.

The reason your attempt at an absolute link did not work is because the sound file is "Pickaway.mp3" and not "Pickawaymusic.mp3".

Here is the code from the first three players:



As for the centering problem; IE8 now looks the same as Firefox:



Maxthon looks like it does in Dreamweaver:



EDIT: Right after I posted this I found the problem! It had a backwards slash in two places where it should have been a forward slash! This is why I will never be a programmer.

As for the centering issue, I'm still puzzled.

[Statica]

I havent written for the web in a while now .. but here's what I do know .. IE doesn't care about standards and will display any garbage that is put up there but IE 8 is better than the previous versions. My suggestion would be to run your code through a syntax checker and see what shows up. It could be something as errant as a misplaced ".

[Statica]

Addendum - definitely go through your syntax .. I would guess that it's a simple mismatch. When you run IE8 through compatibility mode (as in "rickety, old IE engine) .. you see the same view as you do for Maxthon (which is just a glorified IE+wrapper) and IE7... the compatibility mode is the button to the left of the refresh button on the address bar.
http://validator.w3.org/ shows up a bunch of errors for the page .. but not all of them may be relevant. I do see some closing </td> tags missing. http://www.htmlvalidator.com/ shows a smaller number of errors .. but the nesting error is shown.