onStart event not working with audio!! Created Mar 13, 2009

I've found the audio support so far only working with simple setups, playlists etc. For more complicated stuff (callbacks, onCuepoint etc.) I use mp3 wrapped in a flv container. This works perfectly fine - but is, admittedly, a workaround.

If you're not scared of ffmpeg, just do this:

ffmpeg -i song.mp3 -f flv -acodec copy song.flv

Yes, that is a bug... You can track onBegin

Thanks, I'll try that. Im hoping for a real fix but unfortunately it appears that the next version is a paid upgrade so I'll probably switch to another product shortly. Since the existing 3.0.x I paid for wont be supported or updated, I guess I paid $50 to use flowplayer for a few months during which I discovered and reported many bugs, only a few of which were fixed. You're welcome for that btw. ;)

This is now fixed and this fix will be out next week.

I assume this fix was supposed to be included in 3.1.0? It's still not working for me though, even with the latest version... onBegin is a usable workaround for now though - especially since the buffer doesn't seem to be working properly anyway (see the note inhttp://flowplayer.org/forum/5/18198).

I fixed this in my implementation by adding an event listener in the audio plugin for the Sound.complete event and using that to trigger the START event rather than triggering it using the ID3 event.

I can confirm this bug. Files without ID3 tags will not fire start events. Files with ID3 tags will.

Why does onId3 dispatch the start event? Doesn't make a lot of sense to me?

I'm completely stuck. I can't load the metaData object. It keeps being returned as <undefined>.

I checked that my mp3 file has v.2.2 ID3 tags in it. Everything else seems to work when I use "alert("hey").

I also tried this using the mp3 file in the demo to make sure it's not the ID3 tags that are creating an error, but got the same result.

Does anyone have an idea what I'm doing wrong? Or is this indeed a bug?

Is the issue that I'm trying to get a javascript plugin to talk to a Flash plugin?

Any help would be appreciated.

$(function() {

	// setup player 
	$f("player", "flowplayer/flowplayer-3.1.5.swf", {
		clip: {
			onBegin: function(song) {
				alert(song.metaData.TIT2);
			}
		}
	// playlist plugin 
	}).playlist("#playlist", {loop:true});
	
});

and the playlist:

<div id="playlist">

<a href="av/elgarLaCapricieuse.mp3">
<img src="/img/composers/elgar.jpg" />
<strong>Elgar: La Capricieuse</strong><br>
Montevideo 2008<br>
<em>4:14 min</em>
</a> 

http://orikam.com/index.php?page=audio

Hi I tried onStart event for MP3 on version 3.1.5, but not working. It only works with FLV file.

I hope this helps...
The mistake was using onBegin instead of onStart.

$(function() {

	var info = document.getElementById("info");
	
	// setup player 
	$f("player", "flowplayer/flowplayer-3.1.5.swf", {
		clip: {
			onStart: function(song) {
				var meta = song.metaData;
				this.getPlugin("myContent").setHtml(
					"<img src="" + meta.TENC + "" hspace="0" vspace="0" align="right">" +
					"<p class="artist">" + meta.TPE1 + "<br></p>" +
					"<p class="composer">" + meta.TCOM + "</p>" +
					"<p class="title">" + meta.TIT2 + "<br></p>" +
					"<p class="piece">" + ((meta.TALB) ? meta.TALB : " ") + "<br></p>" +
					"<p class="comments">" + meta.COMM + "</p>"
				);
			}
		},
		plugins: {
			myContent: {
				url: 'flowplayer.content-3.1.0.swf',
				backgroundColor: '#000000',
				top: 0, left: 0, width: 425, height: 272,
				borderRadius: 0,
				stylesheet: '/css/flowplayer_content.css'
			}
		}
	}).playlist("#playlist", {loop:true});
	
});