Scott Bowers
posted this on June 22, 2011 11:25
DPD offers the feature of Creating Samples for MP3 Products. This feature becomes available on your Product Detail page whenever you upload an MP3 for your product file.
To create an MP3 sample and embed it on your site:
Navigate to your MP3 product from your Products page > click on your product.

From here, click on Create Music Sample. You'll be taken to a page that lets you pick your time frame. You can preview your MP3 file and decide on what part of the file you want to offer as a clip. Using the sliders on the left, select the part of the sound file you want to create your clip for. You can have at most 30 seconds in your clip. Click Save when you are done.

You can then preview the clip you've just created on the product details page.

When you're ready to embed the clip in your site, click on Get Music Code. You'll be presented with a text box containing the code you need to embed your sample clip player. Just copy the code from the box, and paste it into your site where you want the player to go. DPD only lets you have one sample per product, so be aware that if you update your sample later, you will overwrite the sample for any existing players you have for this product.

DPD also provides some advanced options for the MP3 player that lets you control the style and behavior of your options. In the code snippet, you'll see a div tag with an options attributes. This attribute is JSON encoded data and it tells the player how to behave.
The JSON data must be properly formatted for it to work. This means that the option name and the option value must be surrounded in double quotes, and each option is separated by a comma. Color values must be 6 character hex codes without a hash. Properly formatted JSON data would look like:
{
"width":"100%",
"titles":"The name of my track sample",
"loop":"yes",
"bg":"CFDE9A"
}
So, the completed options value might look like this:
options='{ "width":"100%","titles":"The name of my track sample","loop":"yes","bg":"CFDE9A"}'
You can update the options attribute with any of the following options:
| Track Options | ||
|---|---|---|
| Option | Default | Description |
| titles | overrides ID3 information | comma-delimited list of titles |
| artists | overrides ID3 information | comma-delimited list of artists |
| Behavior Options | ||
| Option | Default | Description |
| autostart | no | if yes, player starts automatically |
| loop | no | if yes, player loops |
| animation | yes | if no, player is always open |
| remaining | no | if yes, shows remaining track time rather than ellapsed time |
| noinfo | no | if yes, disables the track information display |
| initialvolume | 60 | initial volume level (from 0 to 100) |
| buffer | 5 | buffering time in seconds |
| encode | no | indicates that the mp3 file urls are encoded |
| checkpolicy | no | tells Flash to look for a policy file when loading mp3 files (this allows Flash to read ID3 tags from files hosted on a different domain) |
| rtl | no | switches the layout to RTL (right to left) for Hebrew and Arabic languages |
| Flash Player Options | ||
| Option | Default | Description |
| width | required | width of the player. e.g. 290 (290 pixels) or 100% |
| transparentpagebg | no | if yes, the player background is transparent (matches the page background) |
| pagebg | NA | player background color (set it to your page background when transparentbg is set to ‘no’) |
| Display Options | ||
| Option | Default | Description |
| bg | E5E5E5 | Background |
| leftbg | CCCCCC | Speaker icon/Volume control background |
| lefticon | 333333 | Speaker icon |
| voltrack | F2F2F2 | Volume track |
| volslider | 666666 | Volume slider |
| rightbg | B4B4B4 | Play/Pause button background |
| rightbghover | 999999 | Play/Pause button background (hover state) |
| righticon | 333333 | Play/Pause icon |
| righticonhover | FFFFFF | Play/Pause icon (hover state) |
| loader | 009900 | Loading bar |
| track | FFFFFF | Loading/Progress bar track backgrounds |
| tracker | DDDDDD | Progress track |
| border | CCCCCC | Progress bar border |
| skip | 666666 | Previous/Next skip buttons |
| text | 333333 | Text |
Comments
We feature our product download links embedded directly into emails. Unfortunately with the javascript preview code, it is not possible to embed the preview option. Would it be possible to make a non-java embedded preview code so this is possible?