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Version 0.45 now available - with support for multisite and more MP3 players

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Version 0.45 now available - with support for multisite and more MP3 players

13 May, 2011
5:29 pm

Mark Barnes

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Version 0.45 has been submitted to WordPress, and will soon be available in the update plugins section of your site. Here are the changes:

New feature: You can now use many more MP3 players, not just WPAudio. Any MP3 WordPress plugin that supports shortcodes can be used. Go to Options and insert the shortcode for your preferred player.
Compatibility: Now fully compatible with WordPress multisite.
Enhancement: Prevent deletion of final preacher/series/service (link).
Enhancement: You can now use WordPress shortcode in the 'embed' field on each sermon. For example, if you have a Vimeo plugin installed, you could attached a Vimeo video using the shortcode [vimeo clip_id="XXXXXXX" width="400" height="225"].
Enhancement: You can now see how many sermons are assigned to each preacher, series and service in the admin pages.
Bug fix: Apostrophes and double quotes are now supported in filenames (link).
See changeset.

18 July, 2011
4:34 am

michaelb

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This is good news and this looks really promising on our possible implementation.

We are currently looking at wordpress to be the one for our content management so it is great that updates are being made toward it. Are there any issues that arise across different platforms and browsers we must take note of?

4 August, 2011
6:51 pm

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Very good news.

Theres a lot of new enhancements in this update that I could get use to.

6 August, 2011
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I just installed Sermon Browser on my site http://www.living4him.us/RealLife and the mp3j player.

The problem I'm having is the player doesn't show up. I've checked it in different browsers to see if it was browser specific, but nothing shows.

Here's the short code I put in the options setting [mp3t track="%sermonurl%"]

The save/update doesn't generate an error however, when I go to my sermon page no player shows.

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance for help…
Yours in Christ

6 August, 2011
4:53 am

Rich Brown

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Taylor, forgive me if this is a stupid question, but you have also installed the WordPress plugin for that player, correct?

Rich Brown
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Parkville, Maryland, USA
sermons.aisquith.org

6 August, 2011
5:14 am

Taylor3027

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Thanks for replying… Yes, the plugin is installed and I think configured as best I could figure out. Some of the documentation is thin but that seems to be the norm for most of the plugins.

I'm assuming the %sermonurl% in the shortcode inserted in the audio player option of the sermon browser configuration, translates ok for m3pj player.

The intent is simply have a player that will both play the mp3 and easily allow readers to download the audio file. Audio Player just didn't do it for me.

Again, thanks and any ideas you have will be greatly welcomed.

In His Service…

7 August, 2011
2:03 pm

Rich Brown

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The intent is simply have a player that will both play the mp3 and easily allow readers to download the audio file. Audio Player just didn't do it for me.

The Audio Player plugin does allow both playing and download. Can you give me a link to the page to download the player you are using? I want to see how to configure that player.

By the way… you can see the Audio Player configured to allow both playing and download on our page http://sermons.aisquith.org

Rich

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7 August, 2011
11:08 pm

Taylor3027

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Thanks again for replying Brother Rich…

The player I was trying to use is the mp3j player.

You can download it from [url="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mp3-jplayer/"]

If you go to my site right now, I have the player activated in a widget and I've deactivated the sermon browser however, that's only until I get this sorted out. I really want the flexibility of sermon browser. I've looked at the page from your site and if this player won't work with sermon browser, I'd appreciate pointers to using the WP Audio Player. I've been able to get Audio Player to work but I just couldn't make it show a download link. Oh… and if we want to bring vanity into it, the player is just bland.

I've decided I can live with bland…

Thanks Again
Yours in Christ… Tom

7 August, 2011
11:32 pm

Rich Brown

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Yes, it is bland… and that bothered me, too, but it seems to work better than all the other ones (currently… I hear Mark is working on it). As to pointers, if you're able to edit the Sermon Browser templates, I can tell you how to place a down load link on your page.

Rich Brown
Aisquith Presbyterian Church
Parkville, Maryland, USA
sermons.aisquith.org

7 August, 2011
11:40 pm

Taylor3027

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Thanks…

Yes, I can edit the template code…

That would be a great help. I can at least put Sermon Browser back on line.

Again, thanks!!

8 August, 2011
12:49 am

Rich Brown

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Install Audio Player, and then look in templates under "search results page". Seach for files_loop and make sure it looks like this:

[files_loop][file_with_download][/files_loop]

Rich Brown
Aisquith Presbyterian Church
Parkville, Maryland, USA
sermons.aisquith.org

20 September, 2011
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mtnvalleycc

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i am trying to get this to work as well… I have the JWPlayer plugin installed and posted this in the shortcode spot on the options page

[jwplayer type="sermons" file="%SERMONURL%"]

type is the name of the jwplayer I created in the type field… and i just copied the same as the original file link in SB…. please help!

edit by me: the website is http://mtnvalleycc.org and a sample page is http://mtnvalleycc.org/podcast…..k-of-acts/

25 September, 2011
8:41 pm

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Hi All,

I'm following this thread with interest as I would very much like to get mp3-jplayer working as the audio player in order to better serve IOS devices with HTML5 It is also a very customizable player, allowing floating the player off the page, download, skinning, etc. In answer to the poster earlier about documentation, there is fairly extensive doc available on the 'help' link on the plugin settings page.

In any case, I think it is close – I use the proper short code – [mp3t track="%SERMONURL%"] for instance – but can't get it to work quite yet. I'll keep poking at it and report results here. Anyone else had progress?

25 September, 2011
10:27 pm

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One player option that I gleaned from another post appears to work easily for HTML5 support (iphones, etc.):
http://mediaelementjs.com/ (or install from the Wordpress plugin repository – mediaelement)

Once the mediaelement plugin is installed and activated, change your Sermon Browser 'Options' 'MP3 Shortcode' setting to

[audio src=%SERMONURL%]

That's it – do your own testing, but seems to work my iphone, Safari, Firefox

25 September, 2011
10:38 pm

managenet

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One other tip – when testing various audio player plugins, be sure to deactivate the others while testing the new one (eg. deactivate WP Audio Player plugin while testing MediaElement) This helps eliminate unexpected behavior from competing plugins interpreting the same shortcodes if they happen to use the same syntax.

26 September, 2011
4:37 pm

managenet

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If you don't mind hacking code and if you prefer the look of the recommended audio-player plugin (I kinda like it for the clean look) then the approach described by hearvox in this thread works as well:

http://wordpress.org/support/t…..patibility

29 September, 2011
6:51 pm

tibc

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Rich,

What is the name of the plugin that you are using?
I've tried various plugins with "Audio Player" in the name; but none do Firefox, mobile devices and Sermon Browser.
Yours seems to do all three.

Thanks.

ActsSeventeen.com

29 September, 2011
11:08 pm

Rich Brown

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TIBC – it's the "1-Pixel Out" audio player – get it here: http://wpaudioplayer.com/

Rich Brown
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sermons.aisquith.org

30 September, 2011
3:53 am

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Rich,
Thanks, I'll give it a go tomorrow.

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