I would like to help my daughter installing an MP3 player for a survey she sets up for a thesis about music and brands.
She already has made previous surveys, using YouTube facilities: the survey was on an university' server and inside the pages of her study were links towards YouTube's music.

What she would like to have: the same thing but with a MP3 Player instead of YouTube Video Player.

I'd already installed HTML5 MP3 Players on websites. But its quite different here, and I don't know how to do this and even if it is possible:
The survey would be on a server of the university, for each serie of questions there will be one player, the simplest one, which will be a link to one music (only one).
These songs will be on another server (a personal server). I don' know if that's clear…please forgive me, I feel like an idiot with these tools…

What I try to say: people who'll make the survey will clic on Player 1 and so will hear Extract 1, Player 2 , extract 2 and so on…without leaving the survey, but the music extracts won't be on the university'server, it is not allowed, they will be on my server.

So is it possible to do this with HTML5 MP3 Player, or can you propose me another tool which is fit for my needs?

Thanks in advance for your help and please, excuse me for this so big message !

Kind Regards,

Edmond Zoghaib

Edited by - Edmond Zoghaib on 12 Sep 2011  19:11:16

Edited by - Edmond Zoghaib on 12 Sep 2011  19:16:33

Hello Edmond,

The player can transform a link to a mp3 file into a playable one. Using and MP3 Player region each link to an MP3 in it will be made playable. So if your daughter links in MP3s they will be played according to the crossdomain.xml policy that the server on which the mp3 file resides.

That means - yes you can link in mp3 files and they could be played but that depends on the policy that the server have set.

If the server from which she will be linking MP3 files is yours you can set in the root of the site from which the mp3s will be linked an xml file named crossdomain.xml with following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<cross-domain-policy>
	<allow-access-from domain="*" />
</cross-domain-policy>

Hello Miroslav,
Thanks for your quick answer !

I'm happy I can get out of this problem. []

I assum I have to replace the "*" by the name of the domain of the university, or is it a generic character ?

Kind Regards,
Edmond Z

After a quick search I found the answer concerning the "*".

Thank you again Miroslav !

Best,

Edmond