#14 Groups reload/refesh issue on Firefox

[Anonymous]

Hi There! Thank you for an amazing product! Implemented this today on our charity choir website using the groups feature on our song demo page.

Here is an issue that I am having with Mozilla Firefox only - I use version 3.0.11 (NOTE: I tested this problem on Internet Explorer and Safri with no problem).

Navigating to a page normally works well, songs don't overplay each other, but, should you press the "Refresh" or "reload" button on your browser, the groups feature stops working for some reason and songs start playing all over each other.

You can see the page here: http://elmbridgechoir.co.uk/Music.html

Is there some setting on Firefox which should be set or can anyone point me in the right direction as to why this would only be happening on Firefox?

Thanks so much

Cliff

[Marc Reichelt]

Hi Cliff,

I can confirm this problem. I think I know why this is not working in Firefox: If I reload the page, the EMFF objects are reloaded one by one. This is bad because the grouping functionality relies on the fact that all instances of the page are first unloaded and then loaded again. Hmm. I don't know how to fix this right now.

Anyway: It is no good idea to embed more than a few EMFF instances on one page. E.g. there is a bug on windows which forces the Mozilla Flash Plugin to fail if more than 15 films are embedded on one page (blame Adobe). And in any case, multiple flash films need *lots* of CPU.

The best way to implement the functionality that only one instance is playing is to use a bit JavaScript. Instead of embedding one EMFF instance for each sound file, you should only write links to the MP3 files. If one of these links is clicked the link is exchanged by an EMFF instance. I have written this code already, so if you write me a mail I can send it to you. Maybe this will be the favorite group functionality for the new EMFF version - because the old grouping function is a hack.

Regards
Marc