Hello!
1) does this happens always? Or only when hte album is added from frontend?
2) it does not depend on the browser. What MAY happen (its very strange, but I've seen it a couple of times) is that, for some reason, the creator of the album is not correctly stored. Go to backend, and check if the creator of the slbum (on albums list) is correct. If the field is missingm then probably was badly stored... He should just try to create the album again (you, as the admin, can delete the old bad-stored slbum record)

Germi

1. Yes it seems to be happening regardless of frontend of backend creation. Also having to refresh the page on occasion to see the player - 'player will appear in this space' - player shows on one refresh.

2. I did in fact recreate the gentleman's album and have already updated his Artist entry. I had him send me his music files and I recreated by uploading a folder (his artist name) and scanned from backend. I did note, however, that he had some unusual symbols in his track titles ie #1 etc. Removing the # seemed to work for me and his album and tracks are now showing. However he still can't see his edit icon from the front end. It could be something with his computer - I can't seem to find a logical explanation.

1. Germi - sleep depravation got in the way for me here
It was in the parameter settings. I had the buy button on Albums set to NO. So this one is resolved.

I've seen many posts regarding the 'player will appear in this paragraph' issue. For what it's worth, there is no error to report in IE. It just seems to be an intermittent problem where page refresh is required for the jw player to show. I did try the "var muscol_player_module_loaded = false ;" fix, but it only worked for a time and has reverted to the page refresh option. This is for the 'one player per album only' option in the plugin.

If I select the 'one player per song' option in the plugin, both the 'One player per album only' and 'One player per song' appear on the album page together... and no page refresh is required to see the players. It's just that you have both sets of players on the page.

It seems that proplem might have something to do with the 'one player per album only' option. When the 'player per song' is not included, the page refresh issue arises.

That's just what's happening here, and I hope that helps somehow.

Regards.

EDIT: No - I stand correcting myself. The player is still responding randomly. Thought I was onto something there. But it's still intermittent.

Okay... trying one more time regarding the 'player in paragraph' issue.

In IE: As the page loads, the album image wants to load first and seems to stop the player from loading.
In FF: The player clearly loads before the album image.

That's all I have - but thought you might be able to work out some kind of 'if ie8'

Cheers

I'm working on this...

Sorry for putting this Topic up again....

But this doesn´t worked for me.

The Option to display Buy-Link on Album is ON.

But the Icon doesn´t appears. The Buylink for Songs is ok.

hmm... can you check the MENU ITEM parameters as well? (do you know what I mean?

sometimes the MENU parameters override the component-wide parameters...

What MENU ITEM parameters do you mean?

music collection is accesed from some menu item
this item has an id

Itemid=X

if you go to the MENU MANAGER of joomla, go to that menu item, open it, and check the COMPONENT PARAMETERS tab on the right

Ah ok. Didnt know what you mean cause i´m using an url to link to the component.
I changed it to see if your suggestion works.
But nothing happens. I cant get the BUY ALBUM Button working.

I've got the same issue: no Buy button displayed.

please post a link to a page where the buy link is supposed to appear. (be sure that is an album with something written on the "buy link" field)

Germi

ok. it turns out that this is a small bug. the buy link only displays IF there is some song on the album (there are no songs on the album, right?

this file should solve this problem

[file name=default-20100815.zip size=3928]http://www.joomlamusicsolutions.com/images/fbfiles/files/default-20100815.zip[/file]
unzip the file first.

you must replace it for the one existing in /components/com_muscol/views/album/tmpl/default.php

Ok.
Thx....it worked.
Is it possible to add a little Text next to the shopping cart? Only the icon can be too little for some customers.

if you open the file I posted, around line 84, the image is printed. you can add some text next to it if you like

Old profile... delete this post and profile please. Sorry. Back shortly

Thunda wrote:

If I select the 'one player per song' option in the plugin, both the 'One player per album only' and 'One player per song' appear on the album page together...

Hi Germi... have you resolved this one?
Both players on the page, neither play track. You have to go through to the track page before you can listen to it.

Please take a look at this example:
player display and function issue

hmmm.. this problem is a SEF problem. it's strange because I though this was solved on previous version

what Joomla version are you using?

(just to be sure, try to disable sef for a moment, and try to play the song... I think it will play!)

Hi Germi,

Version 1.5.20 (and about to update to 1.5.21)
It's a concern for us to disable the Joomla SEF as we are promoting the SEF links on other sites.

I understand.

you are using bult-in sef engine, right? or any other extension?

the only way I can help you would be to have FTP access, to try to change some rules on the router.php file of Music Collection, so the problem is avoid...

if you want, send me info to joomlamusicsolutions@gmail.com

Hi Germi,

I just did a quick disable/enable of the SEF... and yes, you're right it is the problem. (Yes.. just the Joomla SEF engine).
I'll locate the router.php file and send you a copy, ok?

no, I dont need the file (i already have it, its on the /components/com_muscol directory)
the point is that I would like to test it a bit to see what's wrong...

nevermind, I'll install joomla 1.5.21 on my local server and turn sef on, and see if I have the same problem, and try to work it out...

it will take me a couple of days, though... :S I'll try to solve it ASAP!

Germi

... either 1.5.20 or 1.5.21 - but yes, that would be great... thank you.

I'm probably off base... Just noticing that you have lines 132 to 136 commented out. Would there be any relevance there?

what is there on those lines?

oh, I see

no, it has nothing to do with it.

hahaha... I'll leave it with you

germi wrote:

no, I dont need the file (i already have it, its on the /components/com_muscol directory)
the point is that I would like to test it a bit to see what's wrong...

nevermind, I'll install joomla 1.5.21 on my local server and turn sef on, and see if I have the same problem, and try to work it out...

it will take me a couple of days, though... :S I'll try to solve it ASAP!

Germi

Hi Germi - with regards to the SEF interfering with the player functioning correctly on the Artist pages, have you managed to resolve this yet?

Regards

not yet... strangely, it seems to work on some sites, and not on others.. :S

Here's my quick solution for anyone with the same problem.
Joomla's internal sef doesn't work with some players on an artists page (player not playing tracks etc unless clicking through on actual track title).
I downloaded the current Joomsef by Artio plus additional extension created by Germi - all now works as expected.

Cheers Germi