I have realised that the sticky player appears to work on cookies,. I cleared my cookies/cache and the sticky player came up blank and was unplayable when I visited my site normally (not logged into Wordpress admin). It wasn't until I had to go into my post (where the sonaar 'Elementor widget' is) and start a track, that the sticky player populated and played.
As stated, I have my playlist set up as a widget in Elementor - so it's kind of a curated playlist of tracks in that widget and not a standalone post which has been set up in Wordpress as a standard sonaar playlist. I am wondering if that poses the problem here?
I have named the widget playlist in Elementor but I can't find a way to choose it in my homepage page settings on the right hand side menu i.e. outside of Elementor.
In the Sonaar menu - MP3 Player > Audio Player General Settings, I have ticked the boxes for Post, Page and Playlist. Not sure if that's going to make any difference though?
I have attached a screenshot of the Sticky Player settings. It does not display the exact name of my Elementor widget playlist, but has an option of 'current post tracklist'. My tracklist (as stated) in the widget in elementor is on a post page so not sure if that's what it is indicating?
I did choose that current post playlist on my homepage settings, but as stated, the sticky player was blank and unplayable.
Run out of ideas to my knowledge of how to get this sticky player to populate when anyone lands on my homepage.
It's been explained to me that the player cannot auto-start and that is understood, but it would be good to have the sticky player cued and ready with an initial track from the playlist and not just blank until someone might happen to visit the page where my widget is on to then start the player and activate the sticky player.
Im a bit confused by the issue you have because you describe a lot of things and this make me confused. Im sorry about it.
From what I understand, you say that you have done a paylist in Elementor but it does not shows up in the Right hand menu when you edit the page? Please note that ONLY the tracklist that have been filled in our post custom field will appear in the menu you show in the screenshot, not the playlist you have build directly with Elementor.
So make sure to add your tracks from the post (or page) custom field. see screenshot :https://d.pr/i/MG0NP0
I have just added the tracks via the method you showed me on the homepage. What seems to be good too is that if I first land on a different post page on my site other than the homepage - the sticky player is there with the tracks still available.
The only thing I've found is that there is doesn't seem to be a field in the area you showed me to link my picture artwork to the tracks, so that it shows up in the sticky player.
If you can help with that it would be much appreciated.
That would probably just create one image for all the tracks, but I need to create separate album art for each individual track that I've uploaded into the player.
Hi,
I have realised that the sticky player appears to work on cookies,. I cleared my cookies/cache and the sticky player came up blank and was unplayable when I visited my site normally (not logged into Wordpress admin). It wasn't until I had to go into my post (where the sonaar 'Elementor widget' is) and start a track, that the sticky player populated and played.
As stated, I have my playlist set up as a widget in Elementor - so it's kind of a curated playlist of tracks in that widget and not a standalone post which has been set up in Wordpress as a standard sonaar playlist. I am wondering if that poses the problem here?
I have named the widget playlist in Elementor but I can't find a way to choose it in my homepage page settings on the right hand side menu i.e. outside of Elementor.
In the Sonaar menu - MP3 Player > Audio Player General Settings, I have ticked the boxes for Post, Page and Playlist. Not sure if that's going to make any difference though?
I have attached a screenshot of the Sticky Player settings. It does not display the exact name of my Elementor widget playlist, but has an option of 'current post tracklist'. My tracklist (as stated) in the widget in elementor is on a post page so not sure if that's what it is indicating?
I did choose that current post playlist on my homepage settings, but as stated, the sticky player was blank and unplayable.
Run out of ideas to my knowledge of how to get this sticky player to populate when anyone lands on my homepage.
It's been explained to me that the player cannot auto-start and that is understood, but it would be good to have the sticky player cued and ready with an initial track from the playlist and not just blank until someone might happen to visit the page where my widget is on to then start the player and activate the sticky player.
Gaz
Hi,
Im a bit confused by the issue you have because you describe a lot of things and this make me confused. Im sorry about it.
From what I understand, you say that you have done a paylist in Elementor but it does not shows up in the Right hand menu when you edit the page? Please note that ONLY the tracklist that have been filled in our post custom field will appear in the menu you show in the screenshot, not the playlist you have build directly with Elementor.
So make sure to add your tracks from the post (or page) custom field. see screenshot :https://d.pr/i/MG0NP0
Thanks,
Max from the Sonaar.io Crew
Thanks Max, That seems to have done the trick!
I have just added the tracks via the method you showed me on the homepage. What seems to be good too is that if I first land on a different post page on my site other than the homepage - the sticky player is there with the tracks still available.
The only thing I've found is that there is doesn't seem to be a field in the area you showed me to link my picture artwork to the tracks, so that it shows up in the sticky player.
If you can help with that it would be much appreciated.
Thanks, Gaz.
Just edit the post and set a featured image...
Thanks,
Max from the Sonaar.io Crew
That would probably just create one image for all the tracks, but I need to create separate album art for each individual track that I've uploaded into the player.
Gaz
This will be fixed in the next plugin update that we gonna release next week.
Thanks,
Max from the Sonaar.io Crew
Ok thanks Max, that is much appreciated. I look forward to running the update when it's out.
Gaz