*Any* image slideshow/soundtrack plug-in (or code)?

I'm looking for a solution for creating slide shows with still images that will utilize a sound track per slide, primarily for iPhone and Android mobile devices. I've come sooooo close to having solutions, even coding some myself, but haven't been able to get satisfactory performance on both iPhones and Android phones. Does anyone know of a solution (plugin) for this, or perhaps a self-coded solution that I could pay for?  Cash or wish-list? Thanks for *any* feedback on this one.  I've been working on this for two weeks! I can't believe, with all the advancement we've had in technology, that there is no solution that will play a sound track and show a still image on both iPhones and Android phones... unbelievable! Thanks! Rick

Let me chew on this .I've got an idea or two. On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Rick Faircloth <Rick@whitestonemedia.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

No I lie - nothing. I was going to try the html5 audio tag, then I remembered all the darn trouble to get audio formats right for each of the broswers. I'd just use Flex. :) On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Raymond Camden <rcamden@gmail.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Yes, the audio format compatibility is where I ran into trouble. I had something working perfectly that I hand-coded, using CF and jQuery, then found that jQuery's sound.play() command wasn't working well on the phones.  Played perfectly (sound track per image) on the desktop, but the first time I tried it on my Android Fascinate, three slides would play, then everything would stop, until I hit "Stop" and "Play" again, then the last slide's sound track would repeat and two or three more slides would play, then everything would stop again. I read that the starting and stopping issue was most likely related to mobile Safari's settings to stop Javascript from being auto-started. And any code that has too much of a "break" (for lack of a better term) would be seen in mobile Safari as a new initialized Javascript function and it would shut it down, forcing me to resort to requiring users to manually play every slide.  Not an option I want to force on folks. Then I found that .mp3's aren't easily usable in all formats (how long have .mp3's been around!!!!)... All the plug-ins I looked at typically use Flash with a fallback to HTML5, which isn't ready for primetime in terms of universal compatibility. My headache grew more intense with each passing day... And I don't even need an interface.  I was designing an autoplay slide show for real estate, just for playback, at this point, on mobile phones, iPhone and Android.  But I couldn't even make both of those happy. So, I'm still searching... Thanks for the feedback, Ray... let me know if anything pops into your noggin'! :o) Rick No I lie - nothing. I was going to try the html5 audio tag, then I remembered all the darn trouble to get audio formats right for each of the broswers. I'd just use Flex. :) On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Raymond Camden <rcamden@gmail.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Concerning Flex, is that Flash based in its final output? iPhone doesn't "do" Flash... No I lie - nothing. I was going to try the html5 audio tag, then I remembered all the darn trouble to get audio formats right for each of the broswers. I'd just use Flex. :) On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Raymond Camden <rcamden@gmail.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Yeah - soryr - bad suggestion. Well, you can use Flex to build an iOS native app instead. On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Rick Faircloth <Rick@whitestonemedia.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

What about jQMobile?  I'm planning to build some mobile sites with it anyway, so would that be a good approach?  iOS compatible? And I'm guessing that using Flex to build a native app would get around any JS restrictions of a web app? Yeah - soryr - bad suggestion. Well, you can use Flex to build an iOS native app instead. On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Rick Faircloth <Rick@whitestonemedia.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- self-coded ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

jqMobile is -very- iOS compatible, in fact, some of the transitions work nicer there. Check their docs, but they have a 'support' index which shows exactly what devices they support and how well. Yes - Flex/AIR would let you do stuff like reading from the files on the device and doing other stuff as well. I'll be honest - I really like both approaches and see benefits/negatives in both. > > What about jQMobile?  I'm planning to build some > mobile sites with it anyway, so would that be > a good approach?  iOS compatible? > > And I'm guessing that using Flex to build a native app > would get around any JS restrictions of a web ap