mp3's and ie 7

mp3's and ie 7

by Jim Eckhardt -
Number of replies: 9

I am having trouble using the mp3 player and ie7

My sound plays fine in Firfox and ie6 but nothing happens in ie7

Has anyone else run into this??

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Re: mp3's and ie 7

by Gordon Bateson -
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Hi Jim,
I don't know what is causing your sound files not to play, but when I read your post a couple of questions popped into my mind:
  • what version of Moodle are you using?
  • did you insert the player by enabling the multimedia-plugin filter or did you insert it "by hand"?
cheers
Gordon
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Re: mp3's and ie 7

by Jim Eckhardt -

Gordon,

I am using moodle 1.8.4+ with the multimedia filter enabled  (also using multilang and glossary linking)

The player appears and seems to load the file  (the indicator block moves after pushing the arrow) but no sound?    

Jim

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Re: mp3's and ie 7

by Logan Modine -
I have this same problem, except it only occurs when using a Windows box with the latest version of Firefox and Flash Player.

Downgrading Flash Player has been the only solution I've come up with so far. The most recent build of Flash Player that still works for me is 9r47. Everything after and including 9r115 (which at the time of this post is 9r124) causes this problem.

I've tested it on Moodle 1.8.2, 1.8.4, and 1.9.
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Re: mp3's and ie 7

by Jim Eckhardt -
Thanks Vincent,

I give it a try, although mine works fine in firefox. Any chance you can point me to a download of the downgrade versions of flash?

Thanks in advance

Jim
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Re: mp3s do not play with latest versions of Flash player

by N Hansen -
You can find the downgrade versions here. I have also reported this in the issue tracker as MDL-14982 so that we can get a Moodle-based solution to this problem.
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Re: mp3s do not play with latest versions of Flash player

by Jim Eckhardt -

I am a bit of a newbie, do you mean to say that I need to downgrade my browser copy of the flash player, or is there a player file somewhere in moodle that I can downgrade?

If its only a browser downgrade it wont help me much.

Jim

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Re: mp3s do not play with latest versions of Flash player

by N Hansen -
You will have to download the big nearly 100MB file full of older versions and extract the version mentioned earlier in this thread and then just run it-it will install. I'm still trying to figure out how to keep it from automatically upgrading itself again after downgrading though. If anyone has advice on how to do that, I would appreciate it.

And please vote on this issue in the tracker so that it gets fixed more quickly!
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Re: mp3s do not play with latest versions of Flash player

by Jim Eckhardt -

I did that but decide not to intall it

That could work for me but the users all over the US will have to use firefox or ie6 for the lesion that uses the sound files.  I use the mp3s to teach basic Spanish.

Are there any settings anywhere that one could try to tweak? I noticed that in one of the theme css files there are setings like color and others.

I will vote now to get his fixed

Jim

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Re: mp3s do not play with latest versions of Flash player

by Ben Foster -
Has anyone found a fix to this yet? My MP3 files wont play in IE6.