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WordPress – Audio Song Titles Not Showing in Player or Playlist

You can use iTunes to import songs by following these steps:

(1) Open iTunes
(2) Go to “File, Add File to Library”
(3) Select all the files for one CD
(4) Sort the music library by “Date Added”
(5) Right click on any of the new imported songs and click “Show in Windows Explorer”
(6) Upload these songs to WordPress and the meta data is intact.

Songs can be truncated for demo play by using the “Get info” section on each song. Go to the “Options” tab and select the start and stop times and click “Remember playback position”

Songs that were truncated by a different software tool may or may not contain the meta data contained in each song and therefore the song titles will not be included after uploading to WordPress.

WordPress – Audio Playlist Album Cover Truncated

This works for multi-site.

Edit file: wp-includes/js/mediaelement/wp-mediaelement.css

Use F3 search function in text editor mode and find: wp-playlist-current-item

The default height shown is 60px.

Change it to 150px

Also change ????

}

.wp-playlist-current-item .wp-playlist-item-title,
(ADDED) .wp-playlist-current-item .wp-playlist-item-album,
.wp-playlist-current-item .wp-playlist-item-artist {
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
white-space: nowrap;
(ADDED) padding: 10px;
(ADDED) font-weight: bold;
}

WordPress – Setting Initial Volume in Audio Playlist

Adjusting the initial audio volume in the WordPress default Playlist creator.

Go to the web site’s server and find the folder:

/public_html (or folder with WordPress folders)/wp-includes/js/mediaelement/

Locate the File name:

mediaelement-and-player.min.js

Using Ctrl+F, search for – startVolume

There should be two (2) instances of the startVolume:0.8 entry. It appears that “0.8” refers to 80% initial volume. If you want 100% volume at startup, change “0.8” to “1”. If you want a different percentage, change “0.8” to “0.5” for 50%, “0.3” for 30%, etc

It appears the startVolume entry affects video and audio seperately. The first entry seems to relate to the volume of the video player and the second adjust the volume on the audio player.

Malware – Remove Security Shield 2012

If Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is already installed on the infected computer.
In order for this to work, you must already have Malwarebytes Anti-Malware version 1.60 or later already installed on your infected PC.
Open the program folder for Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (normally C:\Program Files\Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware or C:\Program Files (x86)\Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware)
Once there, open the Chameleon folder
Next, double-click on iexplore.exe. This should result in a black DOS/command prompt window opening up.
Press any key to continue as it says in the window
Malwarebytes Chameleon will proceed to update Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, so ensure that you are connected to the internet if possible
Once the update completes and it says your database is updated, click on OK
Malwarebytes Chameleon will then terminate any threats running in memory, which may take a while, so please be patient
Upon completion, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will open automatically and perform a Quick scan
Once the scan is complete, click on Show Results and remove any threats that are found by clicking Remove Selected
If prompted to restart your computer to complete the removal process, click Yes
After your computer restarts, open Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and perform one last Quick scan to verify that there are no remaining threats

Microsoft Excel – Merge Cells

Example:

The example may be easier to understand if you copy it to a blank worksheet.

Column (A) – First Name: Sara
Column (B) – Last Name: Davis
Column (A) – First Name: Brad
Column (B) – Last Name: Sutton

Formula Description (Result)

=A2&” “&B2 Combines the names above, separated by a space (Sara Davis)
=B3&”, “&A3 Combines the names above, separated by a comma (Sutton, Brad)
=CONCATENATE(A2,” “,B2) Combines the names above, separated by a space (Sara Davis)

Note The formula inserts a space between the first and last names by using a space enclosed within quotation marks. Use quotation marks to include any literal text — text that does not change — in the result.