Article:		Build an Enhanced MP3 Player for Your Site
Subject:		Firefox & QuickTime Woes
Date:		2006-06-14 15:08:11
From:		JCF1996
I've got the Firefox and Quicktime woes. Your product is awesome and it works very well. However, in Firefox, the default player seems to be QuickTime. My MP3 starts playing before it is completely downloaded and the "progress bar" is all the way to the right before it completely plays the MP3. I have the most up-to-date version of Firefox and QuickTime. Is there any way to fix this? I would provide a link, but, my site is under too much development to do that. ...Also, is there any way to code your .js file to guarantee that Windows Media Player would always be initiated, rather than some other player?

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• Firefox & QuickTime Woes
  2006-06-14 21:53:24  David Battino | [View]
  
  
  Please see the sequel to this article, "Build a Better Web Audio Player," at http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2006/05/31/build-a-better-web-audio-player.html.
  
  The script in that article does specify the Windows Media Plugin.
• Firefox & QuickTime Woes
  2006-06-14 23:09:53  JCF1996 [View]
  
  
  Thank you so much!!! It works BEAUTIFULLY!!! Okay, can you tell me what will happen if the person doesn't have Windows Media Player?
• Firefox & QuickTime Woes
  2006-06-14 23:57:08  David Battino | [View]
  
  
  I don’t know, but would be curious to find out! Note that the script actually calls the Windows Media plugin, not the player. A person running Linux told me that his browser loaded the mplayer plugin (www.mplayerhq.hu) instead.
• Firefox & QuickTime Woes
  2006-06-15 08:53:52  JCF1996 [View]
  
  
  I am very curious too. Yes, I am aware that it is actually a plugin rather than the regular installed program. I was wondering if you would catch that. :-) The thing I like as well, about the script that you pointed me to, is that it doesn't have any active x issues or messages. It's nice and clean. I like it a whole lot!!

• Firefox & QuickTime Woes
  2006-06-14 15:18:50  JCF1996 [View]
  
  
  It doesn't matter whether you change your Windows settings to have Windows Media Player as the default or not. When using Firefox, the default seems to be QuickTime. Just like we web-designers like to use CSS to ensure that our web-sites have a certain look and feel, regardless of the visitor and their settings, so too would I like to have control over what player is initiated. What if they don't have Windows Media Player? Could there be an "if", "then" statement, that if there is no WMP, then it would initiate the user's default? Am I dreaming? Am I wishing for too much? :-)
• Firefox & QuickTime Woes
  2006-06-15 00:38:15  David Battino | [View]
  
  
  These comments got out of order. JCF reports that the revised script at http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2006/05/31/build-a-better-web-audio-player.html fixed the problem.
• Firefox & QuickTime Woes
  2006-06-15 08:57:47  JCF1996 [View]
  
  
  Yes, it did fix the problem, but I am still curious if something could be added to the script, so that if the user doesn't have Windows Media Player, it would initiate their default player. What do you think? Too tall of an order to fulfill?