Comments on: Stream your own mp3s with the Google Reader player

By: Shane Perris

Shane Perris — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:33:56 +0000

Thanks Dennis. I’ll look into it.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:00:06 +0000

This does not work anymore. http://www.google.com/reader/ui/3247397568-audio-player.swf is not more available.

By: chappuis

chappuis — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:01:40 +0000

Works using a Google Gadget, under IE 7 IE 8 and FF 3

http://www.liens-du-vin.ch/google-audio_player-script.htm

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By: Professional Tourist

Professional Tourist — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:47:29 +0000

I found that just adding a bogus bit of code to the audio file specification, which I found on another site, makes the iframe code work for all browsers Mac and PC. I tested Firefox Mac, Safari Mac, IE 7 (Win), and Firefox Win.

Example (change { } for angle brackets):

{iframe style=”border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width:400px; height: 29px;” id=”musicPlayer” src=”http://www.google.com/reader/ui/3247397568-audio-player.swf?audioUrl=[MP3 File Path Here]&play=true”}{/iframe}

It works great on my Blogger site.

Note: I increased the height from 27px to 29px. This adds an unwanted black line across the top in Firefox and Safari, but improves the display in IE, where at 27px the top edge was cut off making it difficult to read the time stamps. Is there a way to get that line across the top to display in a color other than black?

Note 2: “embed” will work in some browsers as an alternative to “iframe,” but I couldn’t get “embed” to work in all browsers with all audio file paths. The “iframe” code above is the only one that worked every time.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:07:21 +0000

I would also like it to autoplay. Anyone found a solution for that yet?

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:53:28 +0000

about the autostart.. I actually have a legitimate reason to autostart a file… In my page I have alink that opens a popup window for a media file.. when the popup window opens I want to autostart the media. One of the few times I can agree with autostart.

By: Nathan Duke

Nathan Duke — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:15:48 +0000

Here’s a great fix: Don’t use the iframe tag. Just embed the object like this:

By: Shane Perris

Shane Perris — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:49:49 +0000

In the end I couldn’t work out why it didn’t work in all browsers.

Considering it’s something of a hack to use Google’s own media player like this, I guess it isn’t too surprising that it’s not a perfect solution.

By: Art

Art — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:42:37 +0000

You wrote: “Note, in checking back, I’ve had even more trouble. I have been unable to get this method of embedding Google Reader’s audio player to work in Internet Explorer 7 and FireFox 3. It does work in Chrome, Opera 9.5 and Safari 3).”

Did you find out why it doesn’t work in IE7?

By: Tapius

Tapius — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:25:11 +0000

I can think of one good reason right now i need auto-start:
I feed mp3s into links that come from compressed files, the user is presented with lots of audio clips, once one is selected, it is unzipped and then a link to the file is outputted to the screen, the user is already waiting to hear the selected file, its unnecessary for the user to again click something(play) when the embedded player has already loaded on its own page. there’s only 1 embedded player at a time so its not like files would play over each other.