We have just released version 2.0 of the Podlove Web Player and we think it’s great news as it brings quite a few new features on the table.
First of all, the player has been recoded at the core to be completely independent from PHP and WordPress so you can integrate it into any CMS you want. The API is now JavaScript-only but still provides the WordPress-Integration many are using right now (and probably will continue to do so).
We have also brushed up the look and feel of the player and we think it looks much better right now. The default appearance is with all extra panes collapsed in a rounded rectangle style. The chapter list can be expanded on demand as the summary and a new chapter/time navigation pane that also features a simple sharing feature to get a link to the current playback position and to bring up Twitters post interface.
Here is an example on how it looks and works:
[podloveaudio poster=”http://meta.metaebene.me/media/mm/mobilemacs-logo-600×600.jpg” title=”MM104 Möglichst nah an der Null” subtitle=”Schon wieder die längste Sendung – ja sind wir hier denn bei den Vogonen?” duration=”05:04:31″ permalink=”http://mobilemacs.de/2013/02/mm104.html” mp3=”http://meta.metaebene.me/media/mm/mm104-moeglichst-nah-an-der-null.mp3″ mp4=”http://meta.metaebene.me/media/mm/mm104-moeglichst-nah-an-der-null.m4a” ogg=”http://meta.metaebene.me/media/mm/mm104-moeglichst-nah-an-der-null.oga” opus=”http://meta.metaebene.me/media/mm/mm104-moeglichst-nah-an-der-null.opus” chapters=”http://meta.metaebene.me/media/mm/mm104-moeglichst-nah-an-der-null.chapters.txt” summary=”Eine weitere überlange Sendung erwartet Euch und protzt mit ausreichend Kurzweil. Wir reden über verschlüsselte iCloud Backups, iOS 6.1 und seinen Jailbreak, Abmahnung von Podcastern, clang und LLVM, komische OSX-Bugs, den iPhone Field Test Modus, Dell und Microsoft, den aktuellen und kommenden Mac Pro, Status-Anzeigen und Netzüberwachung, Ports-Systeme, Alternativen zu iTunes, Audio-Interfaces und Kopfhörer, Auphonic, Dokumentenscanner, Plaste-DSL-Router und ihre Fehler, Apps und die Sinnlosigkeit von Captive Portals. Ist also für jeden was dabei.”]New controls allow users to expand and collapse all additional views in the player. This technique keeps the general player interface clean and easy to understand while the power users get what they want too. Parameters allow to set the default state for these views.
There is even more in this release apart from these most visible features and updates to the player engine should result in more robustness and browser compatibility overall. Check out the Changelog for the details.
Many thanks to Gerrit van Aaken and Simon Waldherr who were behind this release and also thanks to everybody who contributed with ideas and bug reports.
We are going to include the new player in the Podlove Publisher soon so if you are using that plugin, just wait for the next release and you will get the benefits of an already integrated player.
I installed the new version and am now getting a FATAL ERROR!!
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /wp-content/plugins/podlove-web-player/settings.php on line 43
Is there somewhere I can download the old version again!
Help!
@Lynn: Please try version 2.0.2, which targets this problem!
How do I get the new version? When I download through WP I am getting Version 2.0.3. It does not have the new interface.
2.0.3 is the latest version and it does provide the latest interface. Can you give an URL where it doesn’t?
2.0.3. doesn’t work in FF, Opera or Safari. I just get a black bar. It does work in IE and Chrome. How can I roll back to 2.0.2?
There is a remaining bug with Flash fallback that didn’t work in 2.0.2 either. Can you give me a specific URL so we can track that?
Thanks.
http://www.oslc.org.uk/sermons/
Hi,
will the pwp ever be able to get the chapter marks from the audio file?
No. that’s not our concept at all. The chapters are provided by the enclosing CMS and should be available before any media file is loaded.
If you want to do an integration with your CMS, extract the chapter files externally with tools like mp4chaps (for MP4 files, other tools for other media file types) and publish them alongside the media file.
Thanks for the fix! It all works again. Great support.
When using Firefox with Flashblock, all Flash instances are located at the upper left corner instead of the proper embed place. Looking at Wrint: http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/5676/wrppp.jpg
please post Bug Reports to the issue list at https://github.com/podlove/podlove-web-player/issues
Hi. Bekomme beim Podlove Web Player 2.0 in Firefox 19 nur noch schwarze Balken zu sehen. Opera und Chrome stürzen einfach gleich kommentarlos ab.
Fehlerberichte hierhin: <https://github.com/podlove/podlove-web-player/issues> und dann bitte auch gleich mit Beispiel-URL, Browser/Version/OS. Danke
Hi guys,
Great job with the web player. Sleek and smart.
Where can I get a full list of the short codes available? I want the sharing controls to always be visible.
Wie erhalte ich einen Link auf die Abspielposition, bzw. auf ein Kapitel? Ich bekomme über Share->Link immer nur die Blog-URL.
Danke!
Podlove player looked great until last update Now it looks like something is broken. Here is a link: http://westernradioshow.horseradionetwork.com/2013/04/12/western-radio-show-episode-146-tammy-is-back-and-road-to-the-horse-wildcards/
Advise? It has happened on more than one website.
Thanks guys
Please direct bug reports directly to https://github.com/podlove/podlove-web-player/issues or https://github.com/podlove/podlove-publisher/issues
Kann der podlove-player in einem Playerwidget mehrere Audiodateien hinterinander abspielen?
Ich würde ihn gerne für Musikalben verwenden. Wenn man einfach auf den Playbutton klickt, soll er Song für Song abspielen, dabei immer den aktuellen Titel bzw. Text einblenden. Likes o.ä. sollen auf den aktuellen Song verweisen.
Anstelle der Kapitel soll eine Liste der Songs erscheinen.
Im Prinzip alles so wie in den Demos gezeigt, nur dass jedes Kapitel aus einer eigenen Audiodatei kommt.
Geht das prinzipiell oder ist der podlove-player da der falsche Ansatz?
Danke
Kann er nicht. Wird er auch nicht können.
Schade. Muss ich mir was anderes suchen.
Danke für die klare Ansage.
Hey, we have been using the web player and really like it but I cant work out a way to get play-counts for each episode – any ideas? thanks
The player has no statistics at all. The Podlove Publisher is planned to do statistics in the near future but right now the only way to create stats is to go for the log files with other tools (which we do not provide).