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mp3 files on webpage

Wednesday 02 June 2004 2:52:06 am - 7 replies

Modified on Wednesday 02 June 2004 2:58:53 am by Piotr Switkowski

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Ulrich L.

Wednesday 16 March 2005 4:45:06 am

I've got the same problem, so I'd like to revitalize this thread...
I made the same experience: Using the file datatype results always in a download request window of the browser, no immediate streaming.

The following workaraund is working, but not very comfortable: Uploading the mp3-Files manually and creating a link in ezpublish.

Is there any other known way to deal with mp3? (I use mp3 in order to provide free examples of audio.)

Jack Rackham

Wednesday 16 March 2005 5:40:48 am

Well .mp3 handling depends on your browser.
In IE 6 it opens this download/open dialog, but in Firefox 1.x it automatically opens the file.
Try it out: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22index+of%22+mp3
Instead you can use a streaming format like .mov .asf .raw.........

Ulrich L.

Wednesday 16 March 2005 5:50:47 am

Sorry, but my IE6 doesn't open dialog in case of mp3 streams (I just tested it with your link ;-) ). So I think the problem remains the same.

Gabriel Ambuehl

Wednesday 16 March 2005 6:27:44 am

Did you look into the template of the File content class? Maybe you can change the redirect to a direct link?

Visit http://triligon.org

Ulrich L.

Wednesday 16 March 2005 9:42:50 am

I'm not sure wether I fully understand the 'file' templates.
Now I created a class for my audio examples which includes an attribute "stream_file" which is a binary file. The following piece of code results in immediate mp3 playback:

<a href={$node.object.data_map.stream_file.content.filepath|ezroot}>{$node.name|wash()}</a>

However, the URL is not a nice one, it's like this:
<ezroot>/var/shop/storage/original/audio/439ae3b40d3cf881733d0a79ee506770.mp3

Any suggestions to further improve this solution are welcome, of course...

Łukasz Serwatka

Wednesday 16 March 2005 10:43:18 am

Hi Uli,

Try this code to display link to download your file.

<a href={concat( 'content/download/',
$node.object.data_map.stream_file.contentobject_id, '/',
$node.object.data_map.stream_file.id, '/file/',
$node.object.data_map.stream_file.content.original_filename|urlencode )|ezurl}>
{$node.object.data_map.stream_file.content.original_filename|wash( xhtml )}
</a>

Personal website -> http://serwatka.net
Blog (about eZ Publish) -> http://serwatka.net/blog

Ulrich L.

Wednesday 16 March 2005 11:40:38 am

This suggestion is very interesting (so much to learn here!), however, the result is again a download window of the browser. That means at the moment I still prefer "my" solution...

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