Actually, after reading over your post again, it looks like what you need is to set autoBuffering: false autoBuffering: false will prevent the media from loading until the play button it presses. It differs from autoPlay: false which simply prevents it from player, but buffers anyhow.
So, your code may look something like this. You can add in and define a host of different options. flowplayer("player", 'http://www.your-website.com/path-to-flowplayer/ flowplayer-3.1.3.swf', { clip: { url: path-to-your-media, autoPlay: false, autoBuffering: false, //<-- THIS IS YOUR GOLDEN NUGGET seekableOnBegin: true }, plugins: { // load one or more plugins controls: { // load the controls plugin url: 'path-to-controls-plugin/flowplayer.controls-3.1.3.swf', backgroundColor: '#927150', timeBgColor: '#000000', progressGradient: 'low', height: 20, scrubber: true, } //Ends controls } //Ends plugins }); //Ends flowplayer On Sep 24, 8:51 am, RealMason <st...@tangentnet.com> wrote: > I'm a total jquery newbie and I'm just trying to find out if something > is possible. > > If I have a full album worth of songs that I want to list on a web > page, can I use jquery to only embed the quicktime file after the user > clicks on a play button for that track. > > Similar to Amazon's or iTunes play button per track. > > The way I'm doing it right now, every song is embedded and therefore > is progressively downloading and soaking up bandwidth even though the > user may only listen to one song (or none). > > Essentially, I want the song to only progressively download IF the > user clicks play. > > I am NOT asking about autoplay versus click to play... instead my > question is about controlling the point in time that the file gets > embedded and starts downloading to the browser. > > Any direction would be appreciated. I do have the "jquery.media.js" > plug in. > > My ideal solution would be a list of song titles and a play button. > When the user clicks the play button, the quicktime play is revealed > below the title and ONLY at that moment does the file start > downloading. > > Thanks.