Music player won't pop

February 28, 2012 10:10 AM

Popping out the Music player doesn't seem to work anymore.

Hitting the "pop out" link opens a new window with the Metafilter error page. Running Firefox 10.0.2, Windows 7.

posted by backseatpilot to Bugs at 10:10 AM (9 comments total)

Looks like a character encoding issue with one of the recent tracks. I'll see if I can narrow it down.
posted by pb (staff) at 10:27 AM on February 28, 2012

10:1 it was the title of this song.
posted by RichardP at 10:31 AM on February 28, 2012

ok, it should be working now. The playlists were using older character encoding code that we've cleaned up since then.
posted by pb (staff) at 10:31 AM on February 28, 2012

Hey, it works! Thanks. I guess not many people use this feature, since I noticed it about two weeks ago and thought "surely SOMEONE will bring this to the attention of the proper authorities".
posted by backseatpilot at 10:38 AM on February 28, 2012

Sorry about that. Yeah, feel free to use the Contact form for stuff like that if you run across it in the future.
posted by pb (staff) at 10:40 AM on February 28, 2012

Wait, you can 'pop out' the music player? Where's that option?
posted by koeselitz at 11:31 AM on February 28, 2012

Anytime you see a multi-track player on Music there's an option to open it in a new Window. For example, the Random Track Player has a link underneath to "pop-out". Click that, and you'll get the random track player in a new little Window.
posted by pb (staff) at 11:41 AM on February 28, 2012

That is awesome! Thanks, pb.
posted by koeselitz at 12:36 PM on February 28, 2012

Those nanos are pretty small these days.
posted by grog at 8:10 PM on February 28, 2012