Blog - Autoplay = False, Happy Bloggers = True - CBC Radio 3: Free music, videos, podcasts & concerts

Posted by Phil Rabin on Aug 14, 2007

We have great news for anyone wishing to spread their love of Indie Canadian music on their own blogs, myspace, but don't want to make their users feel like they're attending Indie Rock Jesus Camp.

Due to ~~user complaints~~ popular demand, the CBC Radio 3 web team has added the "autoplay" parameter to the embeddable R3 player, which in English means that you can set the player so that it won't start automatically when people arrive on your website.

Here's how to do it...

When you click on the embed link in the player, you will get a block of code. It looks pretty much exactly as it did before, save a new line which reads; &autoplay=true - this is the bit that tells the player to start playing as soon as a visitor arrives. If you change it to read; &autoplay=false, the player will load in the paused position.

So all you need to do is change "true" to "false" in the two places it occurs.

For example, take a look at the code for my personal playlist below:

Easy no? Happy html hacking!

Phil Rabin
CBC Radio 3 Web Team

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Props

Posted on Aug 14, 2007 by Putzy

This makes me smile--it was bugging me every time I went to myspace. Now, if I could only figure out why it won't show up on my stoopid Facebook...HI PHIL! I miss you!
02

thanks, and btw

Posted on Aug 15, 2007 by michael.tyas

Thanks for fixing the autoplay. Now one more request. I would like my player to load randomized so that my low IQ viewers will get some fresh sound every time they click play.
03

Thanks...but what about radio mode?

Posted on Aug 25, 2007 by riversaredamp

This is great, but can the autoplay be turned off if I want to leave the player in radio mode? For the life of me, I can't figure out how to do that.
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re: Thanks...but what about radio mode?

Posted on Aug 27, 2007 by Phil Rabin

If you want to leave the player in radio mode (no playlist) on your site/blog/myspace all you do is take out the part that says <permalink=/play/User-Name> both places where you see it. The autoplay=true or false parameter in both the radio and playlist modes will control whether the player starts automatically when the page loads. Hope this answered your question.