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I am having a significant performance problem on the "Music Collection" portion of my site. I believe part of the problem is that the "KeithPlayer" seems to be "autoloading" the MP3 files although I specifically have the "autoload" configuration set to "No" in the Plugin Parameters. If you visit this URL, you will notice that the player seems to be loading all the MP3 files for all the songs returned in the search results. As a consequence, when I then click on either the "Artist" or "Album" link, it takes an extremely long time (often up to 2 minutes) before going to the page to display the Artist (or album) information page.
A good way to look into this problem is to use the Firebug utility on Firefox to look in great detail of all the components loaded when accessing a web page. When I access the URL above, I can specifically see all MP3 files being loaded which clearly would be a drag on performance.
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By contrast, if you visit this URL, which is another music component, firebug does not show the MP3 files being loaded until the "Play" button is pressed.
Would love to hear your thoughts on this because this would certainly create huge problems for us once we start heavily advertising the site and have a lot more users and musical content. Thanks.
- CW
A good way to look into this problem is to use the Firebug utility on Firefox to look in great detail of all the components loaded when accessing a web page. When I access the URL above, I can specifically see all MP3 files being loaded which clearly would be a drag on performance.
(see image below)
By contrast, if you visit this URL, which is another music component, firebug does not show the MP3 files being loaded until the "Play" button is pressed.
Would love to hear your thoughts on this because this would certainly create huge problems for us once we start heavily advertising the site and have a lot more users and musical content. Thanks.
- CW
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0hello,
I'm aware that Keithplayer has a small problem with the autoload parameter. unforunately, since I'm not the original programmer of Keithplayer (I just adapted it for Music Collection), I haven't found yet how this problem can be avoid.
Last time I checked the site of the developers of the player, tehy set this configuration issue will be solved on next version.
I'll keep trying. meanwhile, if somebody has knowledge on ACTIONSCRIPT, I can provide Keithplayer's source code to take a look.
what I can say to you is that you can hide the player on the songs search... to avoid having to load all the songs on each query :S -
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0Is there anyway that another player can be substituted for Keithplayer ? Would be nice to have an option to select another player to avoid this issue. Thanks.
Also, could you please refer me to the site of the developers of KeithPlayer ? I would like to see how long before this fix is available. This will represent a significant issue for me and will make it very challenging to use that portion on our site. Thanks again.
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0this is the site of the player:
http://flash-mp3-player.net/
and this is the official developer group at Google groups:
http://groups.google.com/group/flashmp3player?pli=1
the only current alternative to keithplayer is Dewplayer (you can donwload on the downloads area). But keithplayer is definitely better than dewplayer
I'll try to solve the autoload problem as soon as I can -
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0Any update on this issue as I have the same problem?
Also, when pointing the Keithplayer to a remote server, there are several problems:
1. Listening path of the songs does change, but the download path, still point to the local server/songs.
2. When the remote files are reference mp3 files, the player cannot even play
3. The Keithplayer only looks for the folder name "songs"
Suggestions:
1. The remote server option should be at the MC level, and the Keithplayer should play whatever MC gives to it.
2. MC should be able to play video music.
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0#2, Referenced mp3 file is not a real file, but it has the path for the real file (so the file is really small, just the referenced path inside
#3 I tried everything and only "songs". Maybe I did something wrong? When you have a server path in Keith Player, does MC "Songs folder" matter?
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Suggestions:
#1, It seems like when the Keith player's Song server is not empty, it will take that server from the Keith Player. What I meant is that the server should be at the song level, so it can have multiple servers, not just 1 server.
Thanks,
Hien -
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