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Yahoo Media Player Update

Bonnie Diczhazy by on Fri, Feb 17th, 2012

Just a heads up that we’ve disabled the Yahoo Media Player that formerly enabled lensmasters to play their own MP3 files directly on their lenses.

Of the lensmasters who used this feature, they generally used it to provide background music entertainment for visitors while they browsed a lens. We have no plans to revive this feature as it was.

PS – Did you know It’s Random Acts of Kindness Day!

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Bonnie Diczhazy (bdkz) is a community organizer here on Squidoo. She is Chief RocketSquid and manages the Giant Squid VIP Writers program.

Comments:

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/Angelgirl1976 Angelgirl1976

    I’m pretty new on here so thank you for the heads up :)
    Not that I knew you could do that :)

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/heehaw heehaw

    Thanks for informing us the info, well i have not utilize it anyway. Any new add-on coming soon?

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/MyAroma MyAroma

    No great loss, that one!

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/imwithbrittana imwithbrittana

    I could see how the media player could cause some copyright issues, but hopefully it will be replaced with something as equally awesome.

    • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/Becksta Becksta

       If we really want to look into copyright issues, I guess we could equally say that the video module is just as guilty – after all, we can use it to play whole songs

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/goo2eyes goo2eyes

    it really does not matter at all. if my visitors are using google chrome browser, they can also hear some music from my lens. thank you for informing us.

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/getmoreinfo getmoreinfo

    Interesting to know, will there be a new option for playing music on our lenses?

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/manlalakbay manlalakbay

    Recently, I heard music while browsing one of the lenses. So this is the cause of the sound I was hearing. Now, I know there is a feature that exists in Squidoo but as of now it is disabled by the staff. Anyway, I think background music is not necessary in a lens because it can distract our reading. Thanks for informing us. :)

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  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/DaveStone13 DaveStone13

    Never thought the media player was worth the effort. On the other hand, random acts of kindness is, but I thought that was every day.

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/mfriedstore mfriedstore

    this is a great news ever read today. thank you for sharing. I hope there will be more coming updates.

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/todsever todsever

    thanks fo sharing , waiting for more updates

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/AVF281 AVF281

     I never used it anyway, but thanks for the heads up.

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/KarenTBTEN KarenTBTEN

    I never understood why some pages auto played.  Mine never did. I guess I used it differently.
    I will miss that module more than any other thing that has ever been discontinued on this site.  I have a lot of lenses that used that module heavily.  I record public domain work (and my writing). The Velveteen Rabbit, lots and lots of poetry… I did go and check one and see that my short files do still play, just not directly on the page.  Most files are hosted on Audioboo, so clicking “Listen” takes the reader to a separate page where they play. But long files on Mediafire (The Velveteen Rabbit) now go to a download only page — I doubt many people will download from someone they don’t know.  
    I remember that when I first started on Squidoo, musicians were clamoring for a music player module… and glad to get that.  I guess the problem is some people use modules in a manner other than how they were intended.

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/bcarter bcarter

    This feature drove me crazy, I’m glad to hear it’s going away.

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/kintarous kintarous

    wow, its cool ^^, nice lens.. i thinking i can use this software for my computer
     

  • Anonymous

    It was a pain but i think music lenses should be aloud to have it

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/Joie Joie

    I was disappointed to learn this. I had only recently been aware that putting music on a lens was possible, and was really looking forward putting coffeehouse jazz on my site to add atmosphere to the Coffee House experience. :(   Since Bonnie said, “We have no plans to revive this feature as it was,” I’m clinging to the possibility that the awesome Squidoo folks have something as good or better in the works for us. :)

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/Waxing-Lyrical Waxing-Lyrical

    Disappointed and slightly annoyed…

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/ChapelHillFiddler ChapelHillFiddler

    I was one of the people who really begged for the media player and use it on 1/3 of my lenses to showcase the music of my bands and cds/record company. without a way to play our music there is no point in a music lens at all. and no warning? just pull it? at least when the clearspring module was disabled there was a year of warning.

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/VinayVallabhaneni VinayVallabhaneni

    Didn’t know this thanks for the update .. 

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/whateverlzq whateverlzq

    it sounds good , thanks for your sharing

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/kevinswiss kevinswiss

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  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/shaheda shaheda

    Thanks for sharing the info.I have been trying mp3 module but unable to load anything on lens sight.

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/vikasbook vikasbook

    Good to see nice information

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/blueit blueit

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  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/prodiarist prodiarist

    thanks for the info

  • http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/johanbothn johanbothn

    Yahoo is great source of information.

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