[RESOLVED] MP3 play direct, file name!!

ab4net

Hi people, how are you all ...
iam working on MP3 library online, i have made a file: loader.php to pass to it some variables :
1- file=filename
2-filenames=the name i want to appear at the end user.

now the problem is, whenever i click on the link to the loader.php file, and pass the variables values, it works fine on some systems, and some others it ask to download ...!!! any idea how to solve the problem, if you know the code of loader.php is:

if (!$file || !$filenames){
echo("please specify the file information");
exit();
}
$place="/home/myhost/public_html/ver/";
$total=$place.$file;
Header ("Content-Type: audio/mp3");
Header ("Content-Length: ".filesize($total)); 
Header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=$filenames.mp3");
readfile($total);

and there is one more problem,
when it works fine "stream, not download" then the file name on the Windows Media Player is always: loader ... it never comes the right file name,
so please help me finish my suffering 🙂
and thanks alot in advance for all ....

peace ...

_theworks

if you are giving a link to a mp3 file of course its asking the user if they want to download it.. what you could do is make a mp3 player in flash and pass the mp3 filename to that.. or use the embed
[]code]
<EMBED SRC=your_file.mp3 AUTOSTART=true WIDTH=144 HEIGHT=60 LOOP=1>
[/code]

but i DO NOT advise using EMBED as not many browsers support it infact i think only MSIE does... this means shutting other browsers out in the cold.

ab4net

i think it is not about a flash, it can be done without flash, in all other websites i can see that in front of each song, there is 2 options the first one is DOWNLOAD this song, and the other one is HEAR this sone, i dont know some of them uses ActiveX thing, but i beleive there is a way in PHP to handle it !! thanks any way, and apreaciate if you have another solution 🙁

_theworks

The only way(s) im aware of doing it are browser dependent only Netscape or MSIE would support a stupid feature like that.

making a flash mp3 player isnt that hard + its the most compatabile way to do it(that i can think of) people can just download load flash player if they dont already have it.

php is a SERVERSIDE scripting language so it does not support direct play of mp3's.

ab4net

?? strange, but even when it is a server side language, you can force the browser to download a word file (not to open it) when you send a proper headers, as well as, lot of client options detections can be made by the serverside language, and handeled and then send some proper results ...
any way, am still searching and i hope i find a solutoin soon 🙂

Weedpacket

Yeah, but if the client doesn't have the appropriate handler for the MIME type installed it won't be able to handle that MIME type.

ab4net

thats right, and thats why am asking 🙂 is there a way to control this ...?

Weedpacket

Go around with a baseball bat and an installation CD to everyone's house?

ab4net

hahaha, not thats what i ment .. !! 🙂
are you telling me there is no way then ..?!
hmmm, i think then you convenced me ...
i'll try some thing else then ...
thanks any way

_theworks

well you could use flash....

ab4net

so, guys send me the flash solutions details, do i have to do some action script or what ..? hmmm can the SWF be produced by the PHP ... what is the solution !!
thanks again in advance ...

dbdummy

Just do a google search: "make a flash mp3 player"

It's not difficult. But you may need macromedia flash (the developer edition).

ab4net

so it is not possible in PHP to make flash, i saw some thing says to create SWF files iun PHP .!! and i think it can be donw, cant it ?!!!

Weedpacket

PHP can make flash files, and the server serve them. What you say is the problem is that the user might not have a flash player installed.

_theworks

heres a good tutorial on creating a re-usable mp3 player... http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Audio/Flash_MX-Tim_Murr-1008/index.php

ab4net

thanks, i think this is the solution, so is it the same for the VEDIO ???

_theworks

yeh you can make video player in flash....

ab4net

thanks alot 🙂 take care