flowplayer doesn't recognize files with uppercase extensions

[leonelvsc]

I uploaded 03 - ONE MORE TIME (CLUB MIX).MP3 to my group but when i add a embbed media module to my group view and select that song the mp3 player gives me an error , with all the other songs works why with this one no ?

mahara 1.3.3

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

Can you change the file name so that there are no ( ) or best re-upload the files that don't work without the ( ) in the first place?

[leonelvsc (leonel-vsc)]

Yup i try reuploading the song with () with out () with out spaces with out - xD and doesn't work .(

[François Marier (fmarier)]

Just to eliminate the possibility of the filename causing problems, can you try uploading the same file as "test.mp3" (without the quotes and without any capital letters)?

[leonelvsc (leonel-vsc)]

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/4076/sinttulomi.jpg

you can test my site if you want www.sistemaeet2.com.ar

[François Marier (fmarier)]

From that screenshot, it looks like the file extension is in capital letters: test.MP3

Try with lowercase letters to see if it's any different: test.mp3

[leonelvsc (leonel-vsc)]

you rule that was the problem ;)

[François Marier (fmarier)]

So it looks like the problem is that flowplayer figures out what backend to load from the URL. It however is case-sensitive and so if it sees a URL that ends with .MP3 or .Mp3 it doesn't recognize it.

Somehow, even if you rename the file in Mahara, it still won't pick it up. What you need to do to make it work is to delete the file in Mahara, rename it so that it's got a lowercase extension, then upload it again.

It looks like we keep the original name internally somewhere :(

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

Thanks for checking, Francois.

I included flowplayer info in the wiki at http://wiki.mahara.org/User_Guide/2_My_Portfolio/2_My_Files/Upload_a_File