WebMinster Development

I am using the WYSIWYG Web Browser (http://www.wysiwygwebbrowser.com) that has an MP3 player "extension" that uses your player. It works just fine using the extension and with direct HTML changes. However, when I use either method on a large MP3 file (http://www.bsfreemusic.com/songs/awake_ ... narchy.mp3 for example), the player is very slow (which makes sense for a large file), but it also stops playing at a random number of seconds into the file. Sometimes 6 seconds...sometimes as much as 18 seconds. Then...clicking PLAY again...seems to hang the browser (IE7) but it is actually the player doing something. Since the player doesn't seem to have a "downloading" progress option...I assume it is attempting to play the MP3 in a streaming manner. That in itself may be the problem.

If so...is there a way to download the MP3 prior to play starting?
If so...is there a way to show the download progress?
If this is not the issue...do you have any suggestions I can try?

I am a computer programmer, so, anything you want me to try...I can and will. I'd really like to use your player. It fits best for the project I am working on.

Sincerely,
Mark Witten
bsfreemusic@aol.com

Hi,
thank you very much for your report. http://www.wysiwygwebbrowser.com seems to be down. The player does not really stream the file. It starts to play the sound when he has downloaded enough bytes to start the playback.

It is not possible to start playing the sound after it has downloaded completely in version 2. We will add this in one of our next versions. The download progress is shown by the white beam of the seeking bar. It would be nice if you can upload a test page on your server.