How to Use the Single Track Configure Screen

The single track player Configure screen allows you to choose settings for how your audio will play (play modes) and change the dimensions of your player. The single track configure screen looks like this:

Instructions:

Single Track Play Modes:

1. Loop - is the option which allows you to tell the audio track to play continually over and over. When loop is selected each time the audio track ends it will begin to play again.

2. Auto Play - is the option which allows you to tell the audio track to play immediately upon a visitor landing on the page which the player is embedded in.

3. Auto Load - is the option which allows you to tell the player to automatically begin downloading the audio when a person lands on the page.

Auto Load is a very important and useful feature. For example if you happen to be putting more than one audio player on a site then it is sometimes helpful to set the first audio player in the page to auto load and not the others. This way the site will load quickly and the other audios will not load until the visitor actually engages the play button.

If Auto Load is selected then the audio file will download immediately in the background when a visitor lands on the site. If Auto Load is not selected then the player will wait to load the file until the play button is pressed.

Remember that if you have multiple audio players on one page and all are set to autoload then it may slow down the loading of the webpage. It is better to be selective as to when to use auto load and primarily use it for either the first of a series of players in a page or for a page that has only one player in it.

4. Streaming - Streaming is recommended for all circumstance. The website jukebox players are designed with a special algorithm which will buffer, progressively download, and play the audio file and stream it by playing the audio without interruption starting in ten seconds or less over any internet connection including dialup.

This allows you to reach any audience with your message regardless of their connection speed. For this reason it is important that you use the optimal audio sample and bit rate for online streaming which is 22khz 24 bit or lower.

If you need a fast and simple tool to convert your mp3 and wav audio files to the optimized 22khz 24 bit mp3 format click here to download MP3 tweak unzip the file and then install it. The default setting in mp3 tweak is the recommended setting. Make sure when you convert your audio file to name the converted version a different name than the original if you do not want to overwrite it.

If you choose to turn the streaming option off just be aware that this will tell the player to download the entire audio file before it will play. Turning streaming off is not necessary nor recommended because the website jukebox players are designed to play audio without interuption by streaming it in 10 seconds or less. But you have the option of turning streaming off should there be a reason to do so.

5. Enable JavaScipt Output -

The enable JavaScript output is recommended for all circumstances. This option will let you choose whether to generate a JavaScript include and an external .js file to embed the audio into the html page. With this option selected the software will generate both the include which is used to display the player in the page as well as the <noscript> tag which will contain the object code that will be displayed if your visitor does not have javascript enabled.

What this special feature does is make it so that in all cases your player will display and function optimally despite changes to Internet Explorer that disable by default the traditionally embedded players.

By using the JavaScript output your players will be immunized against the Microsoft Internet Explorer Eolas Patent Active-x update which disables player controls by default until they are clicked to be activated.

This will not have any effect on your players if you use the Javascript output and they will operated seemlessly just as if Microsoft had not sent the active x update out. JavaScript is also the preferred method if you wish to host your player and supporting files remotely and have it appear on a page such as an eBay auction.

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Website Jukebox is one of the few solutions that has the fix built in and the only audio player to actually include the <noscript> object tag so that your players will work in all situations even for the occasional geek who has disabled javascript.

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Special Feature: Every once in a while you may have a website visitor who does not have javascript enabled in their browser. This is very rare and usually only the most savvy geeks will turn it off. The good news is that in the code we use for our players we include what is called a <noscript> tag.

This means that if you use the javascript option for embedding your media and a visitor does not have javascript enabled the <noscript> tag in the code output by Website Jukebox will tell the page to display the audio player using the traditional object code. This way even on the rare occasion that a visitor does not have javascript enabled they will still see and be able to access your audio player.

There should never be a reason for you to want to disable javascript output since our code contains both the JavaScript include and the noscript tag making it the most optimal way of embedding media available. However, if you want to disable Javascript output you have that option too.

6. Movie Dimensions -

This should say player dimensions but until I update that label movie dimensions refers to the width and height of the audio player in pixels. You can change the dimensions of the player by clicking in the boxes net to the words width or height and changing the numbers.

When changing dimensions of players take into consideration that especially when it comes to multi-track players I do not recommend reducing their size. Increasing their size seems to turn out all right.

You will notice there is a little x between the dimensions and if you hover over it with your cursor it will say "click to keep to scale." If you click this you can change the dimensions for the pixels or width and the other will be calculated to retain the proper dimensions.

You can use the set to default button to return the dimensions to their standard specs.

7. Save Project -

Don't forget to save your project. After you finish putting your audio presentation together you will need to click the "save project." The great thing about saving your project is that you can do this at any time and even open up the software and do a search for the folder you saved to and open your project up and edit it.

You can update and change a saved project whenever you want as long as you keep all the supporting files in a folder and open that folder with website jukebox to work on an existing project. The config.dat file must be present in the project folder that you are attempting to open and edit.

We personally use the open existing project function to update the online archives or our AM radio talk show. All we have to do is open the project folder and add the audio file to the presentation and save our project and it is done. I then upload any new supporting files such as the new audio track changed player etc. to the server.

Once projects are saved and ready to put on your webpage you simply open the html page for each project which will be named player_0.html player_1.html etc in your html editor or in a text editor and view the html source code.

For projects using javascript output you will copy from the <script> tag to the </noscript> tag and paste that code exactly where you want the player to appear.

For projects using html output without javascript you will copy from the <object> tag to the </object> tag.

I explain more about the difference between javascript and html output on the help page for the screen.

Once you have pasted the code for all your players in the html page where you want them to appear you simply upload all the supporting files to the web in the same directory (folder) as the html page where you want the players to appear.

Remember that all the supporting files must be in the same directory as the page you are pasting the player into in order for it to display correctly... unless you change the urls in the code to absolute so that they may call remote files