Topic: Avoiding player restart

Hi!

Thank you for the great player - I bought it and plan to use it in our band's new website: http://tauno.untsakad.ee/untsakad/ver5 (temporary url, sorry, only in estonian at moment). Player is situated on the right side and is the only flash object. XML is written dynamically and creates a random playlist every time (or finds the specific song if I use lyrics link via grammophone). Everything seems to work great, but as you can see - there is a very annoying problem: if I use any of links - the player "restarts" and plays next song. Also - if I stop the player playing - it starts to play again when I use any of links. So far I couldn't find any solution to avoid this problem without creating a complete flash site or changing the layout (yes, I know - using frames is one possible solution, but then I have to change the current layout).
Can you help me?

  • Alex
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Re: Avoiding player restart

I think frames might be the only way for you to achieve a seamless experience.  I see that the bottom poriton of the site never changes.  You could cut it at the roof, and have the bottom be a persistent frame.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
-- Rene Descartes

Re: Avoiding player restart

I have been thinking what if flash (or some javascript) writes cookie in browser on unloading page with currently playing song with current position. And on loading page flash checks for this cookie and if it finds then it will continue playing at this position. (If cookie is written more than 4-5 seconds ago then flash should ignore this.)
Yes -- there will be a little gap anyway, but I think this could work. How difficult it is to improve the player to solve this problem?

  • Alex
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Re: Avoiding player restart

Please email me directly to discuss this customization.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
-- Rene Descartes
  • Joeh
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Re: Avoiding player restart

I would like to know how this discussion went, I think it's a hell of a good idea.

  • Alex
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Re: Avoiding player restart

This is something that I would be able to add to the player as a customization for additional cost.  The previous conversation did not result in my making the customization.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
-- Rene Descartes
  • Joeh
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Alex wrote:

This is something that I would be able to add to the player as a customization for additional cost.  The previous conversation did not result in my making the customization.

I'll be contacting you privately on this matter.

Re: Avoiding player restart

I always avoid to restart my player.