{"id":16901,"date":"2015-06-20T12:52:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T16:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=16901"},"modified":"2015-06-20T12:52:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T16:52:48","slug":"admin-testing-a-new-music-player-with-big-daddys-sgt-pepper-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/admin-testing-a-new-music-player-with-big-daddys-sgt-pepper-album\/","title":{"rendered":"ADMIN: Testing a New Music Player (with Big Daddy’s “Sgt. Pepper” Album)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BigF<\/span>or reasons both technical and “political” (dueling Web software standards), I have discovered, the old familiar audio-player thingumabob I’ve been using here for seven years will no longer work in the latest version of the Firefox Web browser. This isn’t a fatal problem, obviously; I can just tell site visitors, “If you want to listen to this music, please use a browser other than Firefox.” Not a particularly elegant solution, though, is it?<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the main browser I’ve been using for a couple years now has been — you guessed it — Firefox. Fortunately, I discovered the audio-player problem while working on my first “real” post in the new design. Unfortunately, of course, I’ve now got seven years’ musical selections effectively unlistenable, on a going-forward basis…<\/p>\n

Le sigh<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’ve looked around for a plugin which my WordPress-based site might use, without being too, y’know, weird. (I don’t care about flashy graphics, and I don’t really want an ultra-compact player which sits up in a tiny corner of the window, and so on, and so on.)<\/p>\n

I’m going to use this post to try it out.<\/p>\nT<\/span>he list below includes a few selections from an album called Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/em>, by the group known (at the time) simply as Big Daddy. I’ve mentioned Big Daddy a few times here at RAMH, most notably this early post<\/a>. For their Sgt Pepper’s<\/em> project, they refashioned the Beatles’s entire original album as if they’d been recorded in the styles of various 1950s-era rock-n-roll and other popular performers. You will recognize some of those names, perhaps; even if not, the songs rather speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

I won’t explain how the various audio-player controls work at this time, but trust you’ll be able to figure them out for yourself. If you DO encounter problems, please let me know in the comments.<\/p>\n

(This music player should also scale smoothly in size, depending on the device you’re reading this post from.)<\/p>\n

Thank you!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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