Last night I finished version 0.7.0 of WP YouTube Lyte. The bump in version number (0.6.5 to 0.7.0) is because of a new feature: the ability to embed YouTube as audio-only player, as seen on Pitchfork. Because after all, as great a source for music discovery as YouTube can be, you really don’t want to force your visitors to watch yet another clumsy fan-made slideshow while they’re listening to your latest musical crush, do you?
Embedding YouTube as an audio-only player is dead-simple; add an ‘a’ instead of a ‘v’ to the YouTube link and you’re good to go!
httpa://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFjgv1MO724
becomes this audio-only embedded YouTube with Dorian Concept’s “Her Tears Taste Like Pears”;
Thanks for fixing the Feedburner issue (RE: thumbnail image in noscript-tags now inherit size of div). That’s been bugging me for a while, except I got too lazy to report the issue.
Anyway, RE: audio player (minus video area). So cool. Thanks! Actually, I use the widget functionality just for the purpose of putting music on my sidebar. However, “httpa” doesn’t work in sidebar. Results in blank video. Will you be supporting “audio player in sidebar” anytime soon?
Also, on a differnt note, I left a recommendation comment on: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2011/04/20/plugin-review-youtube-comparison/ Article: Plugin Review: YouTube Comparison (of YouTube WordPress plugins). Yours, I believe is THE BEST. 🙂
adding audio to widget is certainly doable and well within the scope of wp youtube lyte, I’ll probably add it for 0.7.2! and thanks for the recommendation!!!! 🙂
I just pushed 0.7.2. out to wordpress.org, kind of in a rush, as there was a stupid bug to solve. anyway, the audio widget is in there (although I didn’t test it as much as I would have liked to). hope you like it! 🙂
hello
ty for the plugin
what i m missing is an autostart option
regards
HHO
PS: and a loop
i’m afraid autostart renders wp-youtube-lyte useless: the assumption is a video is often not played. for those occurences (and until someone presses play) it makes sense to have the lyte “dummy” player. when a clip is autoplayed, there’s no sense in having a dummy player. loop and autoplay are available in “smart youtube“, which I’m happy to recommend as a (non-lyte) alternative!
Got the video to play without stopping.
Is there any way to remove shadowbox and title?
Thanks for the plug-in!
to remove the tiltle, you’d have to change the javascript in wp-youtube-lyte/lyte/lyte.js, shouldn’t be that hard though. not sure I understand what that “shadowbox” is? 🙂
thnx,
one little problem.
when I use httpa://… the small menu appears but when I click it. it opens the youtube page instead of playing audio only.
hi bertin; do you have a URL where this is happening?
http://internet-school.it/new-music/wordpress/?page_id=33
There’s a link around the lyte-player, if you remove it, it should work ok.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9u5rfyTIoo"><div class="lyte audio" id="k9u5rfyTIoo" style="width:420px;height:38px;">...</div></a>
should be
<div class="lyte audio" id="k9u5rfyTIoo" style="width:420px;height:38px;">...</div>
perfect!! thank you!
Hii,
I used the youtube button for only music on my bar as seen here-
http://tradeciti.com
Initially there was only a play button, but now an entire bottom bar..
what do i do to only show the play and pause button ??
I’m afraid my plugin only works on wordpress-blogs and that it will display the entire bottom bar as well.
ooooops,
i joined it in my bar, when there was only the play button, you changed it ??
can i get that code if you have, where it used to show only the play button ??
I’ve never had only the play-button, but based on your HTML source, you’re using http://navarr.me/ytaudio/ and not my wordpress plugin, so maybe he can help? 😉
Hello,
Thanks for your plugin,
I use it with “audio only” option for youtube sources. It works very well on desktop browser, but on mobile devices such using IOS or android i see the complete video embeded and not the audio only buttons.
Could you help me undestand ?
Thank you vey much.
Admin Pleroma
Evening admpleroma;
That is a known issue I’m afraid admpleroma; for mobile use (i.e. Android, iOS and probably others) YouTube serves up vids without the bottom control being visible. As a result, the audio-only player does not work on mobile, so I fall back to the full video instead for now.
Kind regards,
frank
Hi, this looks interesting.
Can we change the color, i.e., to white for a pastel web site?
Can we make each instance show a track title?
Thanks in advance.
The color is part of the image-sprite WP YouTube Lyte uses, but you can change the image to fit your needs.
For the audio-only the title by default is hidden, but it is present in the HTML, so using CSS and/or JS you could display that title the exact way you want.
hope this helps,
frank
Hi Frank! How are you doing?
First of all thanks for the plugin! great work.
I have one question. When I open this post I see that the youtube bar for the audio you have embedded have the ‘new youtube look’ (http://i.imgur.com/BWQ05tL.png). When I use the plugin in my wp, the audio bar gets the ‘old look’ (http://i.imgur.com/HSC1m96.png). Is there a way to change it?
Thank you in advance!
Caio
that’s the upcoming 1.6.4 Caio. if you want you can download it from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-youtube-lyte.zip to give it a spin yourself.
frank
This solves all my problems. Kudos to you, dude.