Soundclick Links?

This has been bothering me for a while, and hopefully someone else has this problem. When using soundclick a lot of people insist on linking directly to the player, which for me, proves pointless because neither IE nor Firefox wants to open it properly when linked from YC. I have no problems getting to songs from the soundclick site itself. This becomes a problem when people only provide a link directly to the player, rather than the song's page, and no alternative way of listening to the music. Then I can't listen to the music, nor can I offer any sort of constructive criticism.

Does anyone else have this problem? Has anyone found a way around browsers being exceptionally stupid? If not, would there be some way to encourage the posting of links to the song's page and/or an alternative listening source (IE midi, finale, etc.)?

Normally I find that Soundclick needs to open a popup window in order to start the piece playing. Do you have a popup blocker, by any chance? If so, add soundclick.com to its allow list.

Yeah, I've done that, but its still not working, thats what confuses me. What browser do you use?

I use Firefox 2. Could you provide an example of a link that isn't working for you, please?

This one in specific:

Start Player

Takes me to a screen that reads:

This window starts the SoundClick player. If you have enabled a pop-up blocker, you can click the link here: play the song

You can then safely close this window.

However, the link does not play the song.

whereas this one just brings me to the soundclick homepage:

MP3 Player SoundClick

This link works just fine:

SoundClick song info: My Farm Of Magical Herbs by Guinness - Song info page with free MP3 music downloads

Do you get a popup appearing when you click "play the song" on the first link?

nope. nor do i get anything saying a popup was blocked either. As far as i know, nothing happens.

Well, I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.2 and having just checked I can confirm my popup blocker's allow list is empty, yet clicking "play the song" does indeed cause the player window to pop up. It does appear to be blocked initially, however.

All of this is true in IE 7 at my end, too.

yeah, this is just bizzare. I turned off the popupblocker and still nothing.

I can only venture that an addon, toolbar or external application is interfering somehow. Try starting Firefox in Safe Mode - assuming it is listed at the top of your Start menu under Internet, you can right click and select Firefox Safe Mode.

Also ensure your firewall or antivirus doesn't have a popup blocker of its own.

I found the problem. It was norton internet security, which explains why it didn't work for IE as well. Thanks for the help though.

Ah, good ol' Norton.

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Replace it with something better. :whistling: