Song order problem

Hello Boriel... great plugin... thanks!

I am having a slight issue with the song track order... all of my songs are in one category, but regardless of how I try to order them, they will only play in alphabetical order.

I have tried setting the track order as noted (e.g. "11, 6, 7, 9, 10") but it does not work. Please help! Do you have any idea what might be wrong? I am using the plugin as downloaded, so no changes have been made to playlist.php or any other files.

THANKS!!

[boriel]

Hi, Mike

Well, I will test it again this evening (might be a bug on the latest version, who knows). Anyway, in order to use the category (playlist might be a better name, I guess), remember you have to specify it in the player invocation. Did you use the category tag when inserting the player?

E.g. if you hava defined a category called 'celt_music', and want to insert it somewhere in your template, use:

  Code:

<?php xspf_player::start('celt_music'); ?>

Otherwise, if you're inserting it within a post:

  Code:

[xspf]_start('celt_music')[/xspf]

If you're doing it this way, and it's still playing the songs un-ordered, it might be a bug. If so please tell me. Meanwhile, you can force the songs to appear in other specified order, without having to use categories, like this:

  Code:

[xspf]_start(FALSE, 'order=3,6,7,1')[/xspf]

This will play songs 3,6,7,1 in that order (you have to put FALSE as first parameter, to tell the player not to use categories).

Boriel,

Thanks for the quick response and clarification... as it turns out, I did not have the category defined in the template code. Well, it was there, but it said ('category-id') or something like that. lol! This actually did work at one time, I think when I first installed the plugin. I'm thinking I must have screwed it up when I removed the code to test something else once, and didn't put it back right.

The way it exists now is:

  Code:

<?php xspf_player::start('All'); ?>

My category is "All", and it now seems to put things in my defined order fine IF I clear my cache first. Example, if I put it in order "1, 2, 3" and load the page, then change the order to "3, 2, 1", it will update the play order only after I clear my cache (not with just a page refresh). Of course, this could be a cookie expiration issue with my site or something... not sure.

Either way, this is a big help... thanks for "fixing" this for me, or at least for showing me the err of my ways.