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I'm designing a website for a friend who is a local Christian rapper. I'm currently using Wordpress for his page. He wants to add a fixed music bar that the user can control on the bottom of the page. Does anyone know of the best script for doing this? I would also like the music to not stop or be interrupted while the user is browsing the website.

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Music will always be interrupted when browsing a website. UNLESS you utilize something like a jQuery slider for all content keeping the site more static than dynamic. Since you stated you're using Wordpress (and I looked at the site) the music will always be interrupted UNLESS you give the user a 'pop-out' option which will just open the player in a new window for them to keep continuous playing.

Anyway as far as what to use, try on jPlayer: http://www.happyworm.com/jquery/jplayer/download.htm

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That godawful site is using an iframe. I would recommend you NOT do that. If he wants music playing on every page browsing, tell him to make his viewers download his music or just click a pop-out link for the player.

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That godawful site is using an iframe. I would recommend you NOT do that. If he wants music playing on every page browsing, tell him to make his viewers download his music or just click a pop-out link for the player.

Well, I see the iFrames, but I'm interested in the music bar on the bottom. Do you know of a script like that or know what they are using?

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Or you can read the example I gave you? If you look at the link, it's a highly customizable music player. Utilizes the jQuery library which will work out with Wordpress since it's heavily revolved around jQuery by default.

As far as that EXACT player, it looks like it was custom by SiteZoogle (http://assets.sitezoogle.com/common/js/zoogle/zoogle-player.js?1269282517).

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That godawful site is using an iframe. I would recommend you NOT do that. If he wants music playing on every page browsing, tell him to make his viewers download his music or just click a pop-out link for the player.

What's the problem with iframes? Granted they're no longer the latest fad, but they do the trick and would certainly be an answer to the OP's problem.

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I'm still clueless on the best way to achieve this. I really like how soulicits website does it. Any other suggestions???

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What's the problem with iframes? Granted they're no longer the latest fad, but they do the trick and would certainly be an answer to the OP's problem.

ya, seriously, there is NOTHING wrong with iframes.

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OK, let's start at the beginning...

When you move page to page - the whole page is refreshed, so the player will reload...

The page you showed had the bar in one frame and the site in another - iFrames are terrible and should really be avoided if possible.

Now, you've chosen wordpress - a great blog CMS, but made a problem for yourself because MOST themes use separate pages rather than AJAX. AJAX would allow you to repopulate site content without reloading the entire page.

Now... I've looked at the blog, quite nice, but won't be a quick one to convert over to an AJAX like structure, so I'd suggest that as it stands, a frame based layout is all that's going to work for you right now...

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The page you showed had the bar in one frame and the site in another - iFrames are terrible and should really be avoided if possible.

But why? What makes it so terrible? Are there security issues? performance issues? Does it look too ugly? Is it just a piece of code that is so old none of the hip new programmers do it these days?

Saying it is terrible and should be avoided really needs some back up information. As I've already said, in my opinion iframes works for this situation and I don't see any reason why they shouldn't use it.

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ya, seriously, there is NOTHING wrong with iframes.

Iframes wrapping secondary content is fine although usually done out of incompetence rather than necessity. Wrapping primary content in an iframe negates the address bar, it is always a bad idea.

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OK, let's start at the beginning...

When you move page to page - the whole page is refreshed, so the player will reload...

The page you showed had the bar in one frame and the site in another - iFrames are terrible and should really be avoided if possible.

Now, you've chosen wordpress - a great blog CMS, but made a problem for yourself because MOST themes use separate pages rather than AJAX. AJAX would allow you to repopulate site content without reloading the entire page.

Now... I've looked at the blog, quite nice, but won't be a quick one to convert over to an AJAX like structure, so I'd suggest that as it stands, a frame based layout is all that's going to work for you right now...

I do want to use frames. All the stuff I have now on top and the music bar on bottom. I'm looking for a music bar, either flash or jquery, that resembles a full horizontal bar. Besides jplayer, any other good ones out there??

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Here is not the reason fior the iFrame debate, as it will derail the thread. But they negate the address bar, they have performance issues within browsers, they break a lot of usability functions and accessibility functions...

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Here is not the reason fior the iFrame debate, as it will derail the thread. But they negate the address bar, they have performance issues within browsers, they break a lot of usability functions and accessibility functions...

This.

They can't bookmark pages.

If they follow links from Google/Bing/Yahooy/whatever they either will just get the main page, or get inside the iframe and possibly not have a means to navigate the site ( depending on the design ). And that assumes it gets indexed at all, you take a major hit SEO wise by using frames, as it's something not handled by bots.

Using frames in this day and age, beyond the small use of iframes for secondary content ( unavoidable with ad's and the like ), is generally the sign of an amateur. They are a dead standard.

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