The video above gives you an idea as to how easy the symSound stacks are :)
When you have placed any of the symSound Stacks in a Rapidweaver Stacks page , these will start 'hunting' for audio files to play . Once you publish and/or view your published web page the audio files are rendered with the Audio Player whether this is Spin, FatDeck, Linear or PlayButton Stack.

HTML 5 native Audio Playback is available for : Mobile Safari (iPhone, iPad) and Pre.
All other browsers will see the player but will use Flash to take care of playing back the audio file.

Our symSound Audio use no jQuery just pure Javascript, this is mainly for speed. You will need at the minimum the Stacks Plugin 1.3.x (from YourHead.com) to use these Stacks and last of all you only need to add any of these audio stacks add-ons once in your Stacks Page to get an audio player in your web page up and running in no time at all.

All of our symSound Audio Stacks work in the same priciple of add once and forget . We take care of all hard work for you !
All you need is
1. Content with Links to your Audio files ( these can be assets/resources or ideally stored on your web server)
2. Add one of our symSound Stacks

3. Next we will click on (3) the Stack Inspector to view the options of each of the Stacks.

1. Loading Track Color
2. Playing Color
3. Ring Background
4. Text Hover Color
5. Text hover Background Color
6. Play next track ( as these are rendered in the page it is in a sequential order)
7. AutoPlay
8. Disable the timer
9. Timer font color in playback

Spin Player gives you a circular loader animation

1. Player Link Background
2. Player link Text color
3. Playing Font Color
4. Playing Background
5. Paused Font Color
6. Paused Player Background
7. Hover Font Color
8. Hover Background
9. Playing Status Bar
10. Status Bar Loading
11. StatusBar Paused.
12. Play Next Track ( as they are in page rendered order sequentially)
13. AutoPlay

A big player to really make a statement on your web page :)

1. Link Text Color
2. Link BackGround
3. Pause Text Color
4. Pause Background
5. Playing Text Color
6. Playing Background
7. Hover Text Color
8. Hover Background
9. Width of player (max 480px, this is suitable for page content areas and adjustable for sidebars too)
10. Play Next Track
11. Autoplay

Clean looking with CSS color control and effects.

1. Button (not Playing) Color
2. Hover and Playing Color
3. Paused Color
4. Play Next Track
5. Autoplay

Yes, that little button is the Audio Player control. Clicking on this the button rotates to indicate it is playing.

Select the text you want to link to the audio file in your resources or stored on your web server
In linear player this is visible as the track title

Use the add link button

Enter the url to your warehoused audio or if you use assets/resources then select this
If you have added the files as assets via page inspector this will be available in the add link dropdown menu

All the new symSound Audio Player Stacks Support the following file types:
MP3 ( no variable bit rate as you might run into problems with Flash Playback, we have to sometimes play by Adobes rules too)
mp4 audio file extensions M4A and AAC - Not DRM protected audio.

All problems with playing back audio can be related to the following scenarios:

The link to audio file is not correct
Can you open the audio file url in a browser ? If not then check this otherwise there is no audio playback :)

Link is correct but I cannot play audio
If you open the audio url in a browser and you get a download prompt ( Firefox is best for testing this) 9 times out 10 this is related to incorrect mime- types for your audio track on your server.
Check with your hosting provider first of all as there are too many hosting providers for us to keep track of and know all their individual nuances.
Here is a handy guide to Mime Types in general http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_media_type

These new versions have been completely rewritten . Any pages you have with the old versions should have the old stack removed and the new symSoundman stack of your choice insterted.
You will need to do a re-publish ( or even a re-publish all) to ensure all scripts and css have been updated for the page/site.

Yes, using the Pluskit Plugin from Loghound is what we use here

Sorry, not yet the player and audio is fixed to the page you are viewing 'in-state' .