{"id":16912,"date":"2015-06-21T13:16:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T17:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=16912"},"modified":"2015-06-21T13:16:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T17:16:26","slug":"admin-testing-a-new-music-player-part-2-some-notes-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/admin-testing-a-new-music-player-part-2-some-notes-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"ADMIN: Testing a New Music Player (Part 2: Some Notes (So Far))"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some observations about the new music\/audio player thing I experimented with yesterday<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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  1. It’s not as customizable as I’d like it to be — yet.\n
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    • I wish I could arrange things so it doesn’t span the entire width of the blog post; I suspect that I can<\/em>, with some artfully applied style-sheet changes.<\/li>\n
    • The colors need to be tinkered with, as well. (Again, though, I suspect I just need to… well, to tinker some more<\/em>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
    • There doesn’t seem to be any way to change the name of a track as it appears in the playlist. By default — maybe unchangeably? — the player uses the filename<\/em>. Personally, I try never to use spaces, punctuation, or other special characters in my filenames, and I don’t make the names, y’know, Mixed Upper- and Lowercase — plain all lowercase for me. Which didn’t matter before, because I could specify how I want each track labeled. Now? A filename like songtitle_artistname.mp3<\/code> shows up exactly as such in the playlist, not as Song Title, by Artist Name<\/code> (or whatever). Ugly<\/em>. (I got the “user-friendly” names in yesterday’s post to appear that way by renaming their files that way, against my tech-guy better-or-otherwise judgment.)<\/li>\n
    • I haven’t yet figured out how to replicate the functionality of what I used to call the “RAMH<\/em> right-bracket secret decoder ring” trick for playlists of more than one song. On the other hand, even with the old audio player I didn’t really have a solution — I’d just hoped<\/em> otherwise.<\/li>\n
    • Most, well, troublingly<\/em>: I couldn’t use the new audio player with my (Android) smartphone’s Firefox browser. It showed up beautifully on the screen, and went through the motions of playing each song — showing the little progress meter, advancing to the next track, and so on. But… no sound. (It worked okay in the Chrome Android browser.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Will see how things progress as we move along here…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Some observations about the new music\/audio player thing I experimented with yesterday… It’s not as customizable as I’d like it to be — yet. I wish I could arrange things so it doesn’t span the entire width of the blog post; I suspect that I can, with some artfully applied style-sheet changes. The colors need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-4oM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16912"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16920,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16912\/revisions\/16920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}