hello!

well I guess you are refering to this song: http://www.franksilvah.com/index.php/sounds/f/3-frank-silvah/2-clif-notes

this player is trying to play this song:
http://www.franksilvah.com/songs/classinsession.mp3

if you click on this link, you can see clearly that the problem is simply that the file does not exist!

Germi

Ok, Germi... I got ya. Now, then... can you please tell me why it didn't upload? I am in the backend of the component and see the mp3 file listed in my songs and under the album. What do I do now? Why is it not uploading???? I see the correct filename in the box where it appears to be uploaded...

probably is one of two reasons:

1. the file was too large and it wasn't actually uploaded (what is the size of the file?). you may want to check your upload_max_filesize value (actually there's a notice in the album page, songs tab, that says the value) and be sure that the file is no bigger than that! otherwise you have to increase that limit.
2. the /songs folder has no permissions to write in it

Germi... you're my buddy!!!! LOL Thank you... Thank YOU... THANK YOU!!!!!

no problem which was the problem, then? number #1 ?

The problem was number 1... LOL.

Now... I'm on my other site, and having the exact same problem. However, this time I know the song is uploaded because I checked the link. However, the play button does not show up... and on another music page from the same site.. the play button also does not show up, however when I click on the player it plays...

Confusing stuff, Germi!!!! LOL

Links:

http://gospel360online.com/index.php/component/muscol/a/2-aaron-mason/3-breathe

And...

http://gospel360online.com/index.php/component/muscol/d/20-daughter-of-zion/21-kingdom-minded

I'm trying, Germi! LOL

there is an error in this page:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/gppry1/public_html/cache/js-848dc1fce8c5661762beef0f9d47b26b.php on line 1386

I think you have some kind of Cache that is messing things up.

it's not the same problem you had before, this is different.

:S Okay... I deleted my cache in joomla... Did that help?

no, the error is still there.
can't you simply disable the cache?

Cache disabled, and deleted the cache files again...

I'm sorry man, there is still a hell of a cache in the page. you think you are disabling it, but you aren't. and this cache is causing the error (you can see this on a JS console of your browser)

look at the picture. this is the source code of the page. cache, cache, cache.

Chrome's dev tools reveal the following 4 problems...

1 - Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ow] has no method 'addEvent' - 3-breathe:74

3 - Uncaught ReferenceError: jwplayer is not defined - this is on the rendered page - 3-breathe:Line 274

4 - Uncaught ReferenceError: play_song_position is not defined - this is on the rendered page - 3-breathe:Line 1

OK, let's take a look at what could be done for each of them...

1 - Looking a bit deeper into this in the resources pane, it states that syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/gppry1/public_html/cache/js-f9207dd2d486776723cb193ba00781ce.php on line 1393.

Check who owns your files in cache - is it your webuser or the server?

I suspect that you have deleted the cache however, maybe the server (apache) owns the cache files. You may need to speak to your host get them to remove/change the ownership of the files/dirs

2 - I wouldn't worry about this at the moment - come back to it after dealing with the other issues as I'm confident this won't prevent player from working.

3 - JW Player not being defined means that the jwplayer.js file has not been loaded in the head, so when you call the setup, it your browser has no idea what to do with it!

I see you're using SEF urls - this could well be a part of the problem. Try disabling your SEF extension, follow any instructions to remove the cached URLs as per component and check the same pages again. Also, disable Joomla native SEF if need be.

If the page loads correctly then, you should check that you have the Music Collection SEF EXT file loaded for your SEF Component...

4 - This will be taken care of once number 3 is fixed. Basically, the function 'play_song_position' is in the playlist_functions.js file, however, this is not being loaded either...

Hope this helps...

Best of luck,

Gez