Audio Player for WordPress is awesome. But, it can cause an error in IE.

The error pretty much comes up because ‘swfobject’ is being called up too many times. WordPress has swfobject in its library, so plugins should make use of that instead of the redundant code.

So, when audio-player is active, you get the error in IE.

The fix? Edit the plugin.
It seems Audio Player uses SWFOBJECT 2.1
Theres no error with SWFOBJECT 2.2 (and presumably whatever new version is released)

So, edit the audio-player.js file.
You can do this right in wordpress.
Deactivate the plugin.
Then click ‘edit’
Then find the appropriate file.

In ‘audio-player.js’ you can see the code for the player itself– the rest is simply the SWFOBJECT code.
We need to replace that SWFOBJECT code with the latest version.
Be careful though, because it’s calling for specific code that we’ll need to update once we copy it all over.

• Get SWFOBJECT

  http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/downloads/list

  (2.2 was the version available to me.)

• Open it as a text file.
• Replace the SWFOBJECT code in audio-player.js

/* SWFObject v2.1 <http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/>
Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Geoff Stearns, Michael Williams, and Bobby van der Sluis
This software is released under the MIT License <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php>
*/
var audioplayer_swfobject=function(){var b="undefined",Q="object",n="Shockwave

blah blah blah
right to the end

with this

/*	SWFObject v2.2 <http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/>
is released under the MIT License <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php>
*/
var swfobject=function(){var D="undefined",r=

blah blah blah
etc etc
right to the end

I just put snippets in, but you’re gonna wanna replace ALL the code.
Finally, we need to replace a bit of code in the final:

var swfobject=function

will become

var audioplayer_swfobject=function

It should look like this:

/*	SWFObject v2.2 <http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/>
is released under the MIT License <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php>
*/
var audioplayer_swfobject=function(){var D="undefined",r=
"object",S="Shockwave

blah blah blah

And you’re good to go.

This fix is specifically for the error caused by the Audio Player plugin, and ideally, the plugin should be updated instead of this hack.
Remember to backup this code for use on other wordpress sites, or in case of overwriting the plugin.

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