Buffalo Live! Music Podcast - 2 Songs From Buffalo

While I’m not doing a podcast, I am getting out to at least one local series of shows.

The Molson-sponsored “Canal” Concert series that has been reinvigorated this season by a move to Lockport has been the one thing I have been able to get out to on a regular basis.

I’ve been taking a lot of photos of the event too. I’ve been posting the photos in the gallery under the “Doc Wu’s Magical Musical Mystery Tour” section. If you haven’t seen them because you looked in the Buffalo Live section, that’s where to find them.

I’ve also been blogging about the event, as well as whatever else is on my mind, at my personal web site.

If you have updated your web browser to the latest version of Firefox 3, you might not have noticed anything odd. But you might have a hard time finding the podcast player on this (and many other) websites.

The reason is that for some unknown reason the Podpress plugin that generates the player on many Wordpress-based podcast blogs, doesn’t show up if you are using FF3.

The people at Podpress say it’s a Firefox issue, that FF3 doesn’t allow FLASH players to run without some obscure setting made to allow it. (I haven’t found that setting.)

Yet, FF3 plays all sorts of FLASH media all without any special tricks. If you’ve watched YouTube with it, you’ve used FLASH.

Apparently, it’s not that it uses FLASH, but how it does it. I’m hoping that a new version of the plugin will fix the problem. There is supposed to be one coming out shortly.

I thought, at first, that there was something wrong with my blog and had reinstalled PodPress completely, so it caught me off guard too. I finally tried IE7 and the player was back, so I started asking questions at the Mighty Seek site and found a terse post placing the blame on FF3.

The podcasts still play, if you want to hear them. Clicking the little MP3 button will open them with your default MP3 player application. The links to download still work as well, so if you use FF3, don’t worry, it’s just a little less convenient to play the shows.

Of course, if you don’t use FF3, you’ll never notice anything wrong.