Maynard's Groovy Bible Tunes: Children's Bible Songs for Christian Kids of all ages!

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Website Fixes

Yesterday and Today I discovered and (hopefully) fixed a number of serious glitches on the website.

1. The Media Player on the store pages wasn't working.

It's a different player from the one I now use on the jukebox, and it didn't like the changes. I've fixed that, so now you can listen to a song when browsing the Store.

2. The Media Player on the Jukebox didn't seem to play anything when changing quickly between one song and another.

This surprised me: and flumoxed me for a moment - what had I done wrong with the code?!! Why wasn't it playing? Then suddenly something played after a pause of 20 odd seconds. Weird.

What was happening was that flowplayer (the media player) was still loading the previous song's file in the background, even when a new song had been chosen. If you clicked a few songs in order, I think it probably loaded every one into its buffer, before eventually playing the last one you stopped on - hence the long silent pause.

Fortunately the flowplayer command $f().close() stops this buffering happening, so now that's fixed.

3. The Bible page wasn't working - stuck with a Javascript error.

... and no-one told me. I suppose I should have noticed. That's fixed too.

4. Everything is minified.

This isn't an error - just a new feature. I'm using jsmin-php to minify the javascript used on the jukebox. That should cut down the load time by a few seconds, and hopefully make the page more attractive to people.

If you happen to spot something wrong, or something doesn't work for you - PLEASE TELL ME!!!