Do you know the way to San Jose?

[tfabris]

After missing the convention last year, we're heading back to Baycon this weekend, with a 9pm Saturday concert and a big bag of albums to sell.

Vixy is also heading down early to do some recording for upcoming album projects by The Bohnhoffs and Seanan.

We've recently sent some CDs off to IndieRhythm.com to see how they do for us. Our page there isn't up yet, but perhaps it will be up by the end of the week. In the meantime, CDBaby has been great, Thirteen is continuing to sell reasonably well through their online store, which makes us very happy. And the sales are coming from all over the world! We knew we could sell the album to a few local friends at conventions and housefilks, but I didn't predict so many sales from places we'd never been or people we'd never met before. We've gotten reports that folks are buying our album through iTunes, which makes us happy as well, although we get no tracking data from them.

Finally, I'd like to post a call for help. In the process of setting up our music page, I uncovered a bug in the Adobe Flash Player Plugin. I'm very keen on getting this bug fixed, so that I don't have to continue to modify my Javascript work-around each time they release a new version of the Flash player. I've reported this bug to Adobe; they have an online community system where the bugs get voted upon. Here's where I need help: my bug needs more votes before Adobe will even take a look at it, it's still classified in the "not enough votes" category. If you are of a technical bent, you can help by signing up for their online bug submission system, logging in, and then voting for my bug by clicking on the "Vote" link in the left hand column. Of course, I don't want to spam their system without a reasonable reason, so only vote if you've read the bug description, understand it, and agree it's something that needs fixing in the next release.

Edit: After getting enough votes to push the issue up the Adobe food chain, it appears as though their beta of Flash Player 10 fixes the issue. I hadn't realized until now that Flash Player 10 was publicly available, otherwise I would have tried it right away.

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Comments

[tfabris.livejournal.com]

Ah good, glad I could help. It's not a problem until you put about 14-15+ buttons on the same page, so it certainly doesn't affect everyone. The bad thing is that it seems to affect all of the MP3 players out there which implement themselves in that fashion.

If you don't care about the formatting of the page changing when you press play, the Delicious Player works around this by only implementing the flash file once, and using Javascript to feed individual MP3 links to the player. It's dead-easy to implement if you follow that link.

The only reason I didn't go with that solution was because their player rectangle changes its width and height when you press play. I wanted everything in a nice static unchanging table format where there was only the button and its shape/size didn't change. But if you don't care about that, then the delicious player is the way to go.

[egoldberg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, like you, I didn't want my table resizing in the middle, and like some aesthetic control over the interface widget.

But it's good to know alternatives exist.