Flash Music Player

Avoid any sample rate that isn't a multiple of 11,025Hz. Many hardware and software MP3 players including those ones using Adobe/Macromedia Flash won't play anything that isn't a multiple of 11,025. The recommended ratio are 11, 22 or 44 KHz. Any other can give you speed conflicts when using Flash Music Players.

The bitrate you use when exporting your .swf files depends on your needs, here are some of the common bitrates and their quality levels:

• 16 kbit/s - Minimum (Ideal for voice)
• 32 kbit/s - Intermediate
• 64-96 kbit/s - Recommended
• 128 - 256 kbit/s - Best (CD Quality)

No, the .FLA sources are not included. However, you can request a quote for custom changes.

Yes, our extensions are tested, approved and published in the Adobe Exchange site by the Adobe Exchange Team. This assures compatibility with most Dreamweaver versions, browsers and platforms.

The cost for a custom skin design is US$149.

First step: you send us your request details (design guidelines, url of your web,...).

Second step: Pay the amount of US$149.00 (cost of the development service). In case you are not satisfied with the final product, we will refund the 85% of the payment. Payment via Paypal (credit cards accepted) or MoneyBookers.

Third step: Within 2 days we will send you two design proposals. You select one for revisions and development.

Fourth step: The selected design will go through as many as three revisions before the elaboration of the final product (the player skin).

Fifth step: You get your custom player skin (1 more day for the final development).

No. If you insert the player from Dreamweaver, the XML files will be generated automatically. No hand coding is required.

However, even if you need further edition to the configuration or playlist files, you can do it using Dreamweaver or any other text editor like Notepad. If you need additional info, you can contact our support service.

FLA sources are not included. We have various skins with different styles available. You can select the skin that better matches your site.

As alternative you can request a quote for custom changes or a custom skin.

TSPlayer (the version on this site) is not designed to prevent downloads.

If you are looking for a Secure Flash Music Player for selling music or other audio files, then please check out our SecureTSPlayer, published in www.tsplayer.com.

SecureTSPlayer is a more advanced Flash Music Player designed to work as a secure Flash Music Player, and has many other amazing new features.

However, we continue selling TSPlayer on this site as a single and cheaper version.

Then you are looking for SecureTSPlayer, a more advanced Flash Music Player based in TSPlayer. You can find it at www.tsplayer.com , it has a lot of amazing features.

However we continue offering this old version as a single and cheaper solution.

You can configure the TSPlayer skins to show without the playlist, making it smaller.

However, if you are looking for a really thin music player, then take a look to our Mini Flash Music Player.

Yes, you can put the TSPlayer on a popup Window, so you can visit other pages and the player remains open.

Another solution is to put the player on a top or bottom frame on your page.

At this moment it is not possible to insert it directly into another Flash movie because the player require its own parameters. If you are familiar with HTML, you can place a floating layer over your Flash movie in order to place the player over your site. This can be achieved by using absolute positioning.

No, no programming skills are required. TSPlayer is available as Dreamweaver Extension; you can insert it from the Dreamweaver Commands menu just with a few clicks.

TSPlayer reads the song names from the ID3 Tags inside the MP3 files. Some applications, like Winamp, allow editing the names inside the ID3 tags. If no information is present inside the ID3 or ID3v2 tags, then the playlist shows the file name and the actual track 'unknown'.

Yes, you can generate the playlist using some server side script (PHP, ASP, ...)

The playlist is an text/xml format file, and the name of the playlist file is passed as parameter to the Flash (TSPlayer), so it can be "playlist.php", "playlist.asp", .... see the following example:

Code on your page:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/
shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="355" height="316">
<param name="movie" value="TSPlayerV2.1.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high"><param name="wmode" value="transparent">                                                     
<param name="FlashVars" value="playlistfile=playlist.php&configurationfile=configuration.xml">
<embed src="TSPlayerV2.1.swf" quality="high" wmode="transparent" flashvars="playlistfile=playlist.php&configurationfile=configuration.xml" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="355" height="316"></embed>
</object>

Playlist file (PHP sample):

<?php echo "<"; ?>?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<playlist>
<?php  while (.... [some buckle condition] ....) {?>
<element url="<?php echo [the file name form the database row]; ?>" />
<?php } ?>
</playlist>

You can pass a GET parameter to the playlist file, or just use a session cookie to identify the user profile.

Yes, there is no limit. You can specify an individual playlist for each TSPlayer on your page.

Yes, you can do it. See this example:

Code on page ("id" is passed as GET parameter):

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/
shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="355" height="316"><br />
<param name="movie" value="TSPlayerV2.1.swf"><br />
<param name="quality" value="high"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"> <param name="FlashVars" value="playlistfile=playlist.asp%3Fid%3d<%=Request("id")%>&
configurationfile=configuration.xml"><br />
<embed src="TSPlayerV2.1.swf" quality="high" wmode="transparent" flashvars="playlistfile=playlist.asp%3Fid%3d<%=Request("id")%>&
configurationfile=configuration.xml" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="355" height="316"></embed><br />
</object>

The playlist file:

<%
' here load the recordset form database into RS var
' note: "id" was passed as GET parameter
%>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<playlist>
<% While (Not RS.EOF) %>
<element url="<% Response.Write RS.Fields.Item("SongFileName") %>" />
<% RS.MoveNext %>
<% WEnd %>
</playlist>

Note: You can create a similar code using ASP or any other server side script.

This error is common if you are editing the playlist manually. The closing "/" for the XML tags are required, and maybe you forgot to include it:
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<playlist>
<element url="all-you-need-is-love.mp3" />
<element url="yellow-submarine.mp3" />     
</playlist>
 
Note: the missing character is marked in red, add it to your playlist.

Yes, you can achieve this goal by using the transparent property for flash objects. Take a look to this sample:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/ shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="355" height="316"><br />
<param name="movie" value="TSPlayerV2.1.swf"><br />
<param name="quality" value="high"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"> <param name="FlashVars" value="playlistfile=playlist.xml&configurationfile=configuration.xml">
<br /> <embed src="TSPlayerV2.1.swf" quality="high" wmode="transparent" flashvars="playlistfile=playlist.xml&configurationfile=configuration.xml" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="355" height="316"></embed><br />
</object>

Yes, it's completely independent.

Before contacting our support service, please check the following:

1- Please, be sure to upload all required files, including the TSPlayer folder, the SWF files and your songs.

2- Please, be sure that you are using the right paths in your page source (into the object tag parameters) and into the files "configuration.xml" and "playlist.xml".

If you are using Dreamweaver, this files and paths are generated automatically.

If the problem persists, contact our support service offering information about the error, example, your test page URL. Our support service will check your page and tell you how to fix it.

Yes, of course. For example, if you are using PHP, try this:
 
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/ shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="355" height="316">
<param name="movie" value="TSPlayerV2.1.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high"><param name="wmode" value="transparent">                                                     
<param name="FlashVars" value="playlistfile=playlist.php%3Fmp3file%3D/myurl/mysong.mp3&
configurationfile=configuration.xml">
<embed src="TSPlayerV2.1.swf" quality="high" wmode="transparent" flashvars="playlistfile=playlist.php%3Fmp3file%3D/myurl/mysong.mp3&
configurationfile=configuration.xml" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="355" height="316"></embed>
</object>
 
Note the change (encoding) of "?" per "%3F" the change of "=" per "%3D".
 
The "playlist.php" file will be:
 
<?php echo "<"; ?>?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<playlist>
<element url="<?php echo $_GET["mp3file"]; ?>" />
</playlist>
 
You can create a similar code with any other server side script.

Please, be sure to upload the "TSPlayer" folder. This folder is generated automatically when inserting the extension and contains the required scripts for the component. If you don't see the "TSPlayer" folder in your Dreamweaver file list, then click the refresh button (see image for details).

We have tested this player on the following browsers:

- Safari
- Firefox
- Opera
- Internet Explorer for Windows
- Netscape
- Mozilla

The extension is MAC compatible. Our extensions are tested, approved and published by the Adobe Exchange Team at http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm

This is a security restriction of some Internet Explorer 7 configurations. The problem is not related with our player, but with the IE 7 browser configuration.