same problem… hope the developer can find a solution for these great plugin.
well for me it seems that the problem come from the plugin Tubepress… If you deactivate it, everything is working fine.
The developer send an email today that the fix is ready and should be out in a few days. I’m hoping a few days is quick, so I send a 20 GBP donation his way. If you want a fix soon, I suggest others do the same.
This is the best way I know to motivate and reward developers for their effort. After all, I’m sure this guy has put in a ton of work on this. And, that’s all work I didn’t have to do myself 🙂
Thread Starter
Bob
(@bobk88)
Anyone new to this thread: I encourage you to read my previous couple of posts.
Bottom line: if you need a reliable music player, I would recommend not using this, for the following reasons:
1. It’s been broken in Safari and Chrome since the release of WP 3.5 nearly two months ago (see original posts for details).
2. For at least the past year (when I started using it), the current version has not correctly displayed playlists in recent versions of Opera in recent versions of Mac OS X (and PC too, if I recall correctly). I thought it was a CSS problem, but a developer recently suggested that it’s a jQuery problem.
3. Developer has not answered any forum posts for over 9 months.
4. Plugin hasn’t been updated in nearly 17 months.
5. Two weeks ago the dev told me the update would be released over the weekend, and that didn’t happen.
As I said in my review, Simon seems to have put a lot of work into this plugin, and it has useful features and flexibility that I haven’t seen in other music player plugins, free or premium.
If the reasons I mentioned above don’t matter to you, then go for it.
When I wrote the dev he supplied this info a week or so ago:
ME- how long till update?
DEV- Three weeks (we haven’t started yet) but it will be similar to http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/wp-miniaudioplayer/stats/ Will be about a month before releasing.
ME- Cool…thanks for reaching out. When the new version is released will it be in WP repo again or a premium offering?
DEV- It will be a premium offering at around $20. We’re busy creating jPlayer.it which aims to be a store where you can download free and paid-for skins and plugins.
Thread Starter
Bob
(@bobk88)
Scott: was that correspondence with Simon? Or with one of the Happyworm guys?
I’m asking because one of the Happyworm guys is in Italy (according to their site), and the .it domain is Italy. Also, the developer of the plugin linked in your message is Italian, so I’m wondering if they might be collaborating. And that plugin is completely different from mp3-jplayer. ( And if the new plugin is similar to the one in the link, why not just use that?)
Just to be clear: All the correspondence I’ve mentioned in this thread has all been with Simon, the dev of mp3-jPlayer.
Whoever it is, their communication skills are lacking. First they say three weeks, then a month. Oh, yeah, and: they haven’t started yet.
That was with Mark from Happyworm. I am a bit confused also as to whether they are upgrading or creating an entirely new plugin!
Thread Starter
Bob
(@bobk88)
Thanks for the clarification.
Though based on jPlayer, mp3-jPlayer is completely separate – Simon made significant mods and additions when coding his plugin. So please, let’s keep clear on what we’re talking about in this thread! 😉
One final thing about jPlayer: as I mentioned above, if you need something right away, I recommend using it directly, and since you’re a dev, you’d probably find re-skinning easy. I started with Happyworm’s Blue Monday skin and, knowing just a little CSS, made a very different GUI (though I couldn’t do the volume slider mod myself).
I’ll be interested in what Happyworm comes up with.
Good luck!
I just updated with the new release that came out yesterday.
Everything works beautifully again!
And, I like some of the new features too 🙂
Thread Starter
Bob
(@bobk88)
Great!
I had to move on, but hopefully I can use 1.8 as a backup. That will involve some editing of php, javascript, and css files, since I’m using a modded version of 1.73. Or I might end up writing my own plugin…
