Have you seen this issue before? Any ideas on a fix?

Same happens at my site ... simple fix for my problem was using Static images instead using Dynamic (backend MC parameters)

yes, I've seen this once.

what happens is this:

the URL of the images (its a dynamic image) has this form:

/components/com_muscol/helpers/image.php?file=PATH_TO_YOUR_IMAGE

the thing is that, in WINDOWS, PATH_TO_YOUR_IMAGE will include "\" characters to separate directories (instead of UNIX's "/")

and, for some reason, it seems like some JAVASCRIPT code, related to JQuery, strips theese slashes, I dont know why. I had seen this behavior only once before.

now, to solve this.

we can try 2 things

1) MC 2.1 includes a new system to create thumbnails... but its completely disabled, and you cannot enable it on parameters. the only difference is that the URL for the thumbnails is created differently. it will avoid the windows problem, but the images can take a LITTLE longer to load (if a thumbnail loads in 0.1s, for instance, using this system may take 1.3s or something like that.). you can give it a try, if you want.
to ACTIVATE this new (BETA) thumbnail mode, you must open helpers.php, go to line 297 and you'll see:

$system = false ;

you must change for

$system = true ;

give it a try and let me know

2) option 2 is make a small modification on the current thumbnail mode to avoid this anoying "\" character problem in windows. if you want to try this one, let me know.

Germi

How would I go about doing option #2? It only is affecting this single module. I would hate to have all thumbnails in MC load slower, if only this module is having the problem.

Just an update. Option #1 does make the album artwork load. But you are right, it does take longer for the image to load. Instead of near instantly, it does take a second or two, so one can see each one load.

Option #2 may be a better choice. What code would I need to change for option #2?

Any updates on this?

Hello, any word on this?

hello greengeek. sorry for delay; I was out.

ok here we go for option 2:

on helpers/helpers.php, line 301, there are three DS. replace it for "/"

now open helpers/image.php

line 12 you find this: $imageFile = $_GET['file'];

replace it for:

$imageFile = str_replace("/","\\\",$_GET['file']);

that should do the job...

but remember.. this will work ONLY for WINDOWS installations!!
let me know

Nope, that did not fix it. But it does look like it is getting closer to a fix.

Without fix, I get:

image.php?file=C:webserverwwwimagesalbums88240790_500.jpg&width=150&height=

With fix, I get:

image.php?file=C:webserverwww/images/albums/88240790_500.jpg&width=150&height=

What it needs to be:

image.php?file=C:/webserver/www/images/albums/88240790_500.jpg&width=150&height=

Looks like it is still missing the first few slashes in the file path. Any ideas where to change the code to add these?

Thanks

yeessss you are 100% right

on the helpers.php line 301 you also need to replace:

JPATH_SITE

for:

str_replace("\\\", "/", JPATH_SITE)

and that will solve it

Cool, that fixed it. Thanks!

I tried option 1 & 2, but the images are still not showing up and the scrolling part is doing some weird stuff too...here is a link any suggestions??? http://inspiredsociety.com/soulradio/

I think your configuration on this module is wrong.. what number of albums have you? put a small number.. like 10

i have it set to 10...same result??...I put everything back to the original installed state (helper.php 7 images.php), bro can you help me out my client wants that mod a couple places in the site so i'm stuck until I can get that going...

Thanks

http://www.joomlamusicsolutions.com/en/forum/music-collection-extensions/random-and-featured-albums-compatibility-issue.html#10273