Article:		Build a Simple MP3 Player for Your Site
Subject:		does not play on the local machine anymore
Date:		2007-05-11 05:31:36
From:		EgbertZ
Strange thing. When I view my website on-line, everything is working normal. However, when I open the locally stored html-file, only the player pops up, it does not play. When clicking the start-button of the player, IE (version 7) says: "click here to use this". After one click this text has changed into: "Play" but clicking again does not start the music. Strange enough: when I copy everything to a different directory on my pc, it works again. So it's obviously not a "wrong" browser setting.

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• does not play on the local machine anymore
  2007-05-11 07:17:56  EgbertZ [Reply | View]
  
  
  Sorry for this intervention. Five minutes after I posted it (accidently: 2 times; sorry for that too) I found the "culprit". One of the subdirectories in the path to the mp3-file contains a space. The browser translates this to %20 (which is the hex value for character 32 or space). This cannot correctly being interpreted by Windows Media Player.
  
  So, webmaster, feel free to delete these 2 messages.