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 Tyler |
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January 22, 2009 03:09:35pm |
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GratefulDead
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A note from the Admins about the "In-Page 64kbps flowplayer" non-continuously playing the songs |
Hello all,
Recently in the past month or two, users were reporting problems with a very small percentage of shows. The problem was that the 'in-page' streaming player in the upper right corner would play the music with intense static / feedback, while the 'stream' links in the upper left (VBR M3U (Hi-Fi) & 64Kbps M3U (Lo-Fi)) would both work fine and have no problems in the audio.
This was because the .m3u files (links in the upper left) will tell your computer to launch whatever separate audio application you have set up to play .m3u files. Example: Winamp, Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, etc.
The stream in the upper right side of a show's page is played through a different way, using a 3rd party player known as a "Flow player".
http://flowplayer.org/ ... It is a 3rd party application and when streaming was first introduced on the LMA, it was used as a quick way users could stream / click the show's audio right on the page and not launch a separate application. In order to cater to the lowest connection, the 'in-page' player feeds from the lower bitrate stream (64kbps).
The problem is that because it is a 3rd party item, it has been difficult to work with / mold to the LMA uses / other code problems at times. Always the bugs have been worked out, but it just takes time it seems.
In order to fix the above static / feedback issue bug people were having with the old flowplayer, the archive.org engineer upgraded to the latest version of the flowplayer which fixed the static problem! It appears now though that the drawback was that the show files now do not continually flow from one track to the next. Instead they just stop when one track is finished. We will contact the makers of the flowplayer and see if there is a code-setting we can change to make the setting flow from track to track. Regardless, we will do our best.
In the meantime, I would suggest for your streaming of shows, please use the links in the upper left side. The m3u stream file will open in a separate program and should flow from track to track no problem. Another benefit is that you can get the higher quality / higher bitrate (VBR; Variable Bit Rate) stream.
Thank you for your understanding as we try and work with this 3rd party software and make it work the way the vast majority of users have been asking for it do (flow from one track to the next).
Thanks!
The LMA Team
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Poster:
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user unknown |
Date:
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January 22, 2009 05:16:45pm |
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Forum:
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GratefulDead
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Re: A note from the Admins about the 'In-Page 64kbps flowplayer' non-continuously playing the songs |
yea, that "pat..our kid" is a pretty smart cookie.
Thanks to the entire LMA team.
For all you do, this bud's for you...
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Poster:
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Tyler |
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January 24, 2009 10:41:54am |
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Forum:
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GratefulDead
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Re: A note from the Admins about the 'In-Page 64kbps flowplayer' non-continuously playing the songs |
Tracey, the master enginner says:
"fixed.
flowplayer audio defaulted "autoPlay:false" for the overall
playlist to each indiv. track (quite different from prior versions)"
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