I believe I have solved the working issues with swfObject on pages
that you have used menumachine on. It's simply a matter of putting
your script at the end of the page after everything else so it stays
out of the menus way using a dynamic method that simply targets a div
id, so it doesn't really matter where the script is. So with my flash
movie issues solved I began to think about the index page where there
is a song that starts playing as soon as you enter the site, I know, I
know, bad practice, but this client is a DJ and by trade he thinks he
should be noisy. It really doesn't seem to deter business since he's
getting more work in the off season via this site in our declining
economy then ever.

Anyways I'm getting pickier about validation, clean code etc, not sure
if it's Miles or Coda, but anyways all the previous versions stunk. So
I thought why can't I use flash for this so I went on walk about on
Google and found this:

http://ksanlab.com/player/

I'd really just like to make my own somewhat similar to this in
flash(I have CS3 Flash), but I don't know exactly how, so if anyone
knows of a tutorial it would be helpful. At any rate it plays mp3
files that are controlled by an xml page, so you can control the order
and have as many as you want. Very easy to implement and designed to
run with swfobject. However 3 catches, one it only works with the old
version of swfobject.js, which he provides, secondly even though
right now I have the auto play turned to false( the client will
grumble) depending the browser that only works sometimes, and thirdly
although you can easily switch to the songs, you can't see what is
available until you get there. It does validate and seems to play
everywhere, but Safari and IE7 behave as supposed to, however FF on
Mac and Win start playing immediately, although you can shut it off.
IE8 however joined the crowd and starts to play immediately too.

I suspect a player designed in flash action script 3 for flash 9
combined with swfobject.js 2 would be more compliant and work better.

Any suggestions or help here, other then you hate music on a page?
It's at:

http://www.musicmastersdjs.net/index.htm

Some of it is pretty loud so watch your volume and there's actually
some pretty good tunes here depending on your taste, so if you spend
to much time here just listening to the music....you were warned.. :)

TIA
Dave

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