Views Oddity

Hey All,

First off, let me STRESS that I am a big big newb here, akin to a monkey with a stick, banging at code until it works, but when I started looking at using jPlayer with views this morning, I noticed some odd behavior.

I created a quick and dirty view, the usual filtering on published and node type, putting in an mp3 field (as generic files), selecting jPlayer as the style, and sure enough, a playlist box showed up in live preview.

But...no dice, looked pretty, didn't work. Instead of yada/yada/yada.mp3, it was href'ing MYHOST/sites/default/files/##.

I dug into jplayer_style_plugin.inc and banged at it with that aforementioned stick for a while and found that it was putting a plain old fid into $filepath, which file_create_url() was then turning into MYHOST/sites/default/file/##, so I googled and grep'ed around trying to figure out how it lost the filename in the first place--couldn't figure that part out--so then how to get a filename from a fid in drupal and came up with this:

$jf = field_file_load($filepath);

and then using that when the url is created a couple lines later:

'url' => file_create_url($jf[filepath]),

And, voila, all works. My description shows up in the player and the mp3 file is played. I can change my field display format from Generic Files to Path to File or URL to file, and they work, too, just a bit uglier in presentation in my humble opinion.

Now.... while this does appear to have the added benefit of priming drupal's cache with your yet to be played mp3 files, I can't imagine this is the right way to do this. Or that something on my system fat fingered something else that caused this oddity in the first place...

Thoughts?

Jim