+
+---
+
+At first I need to thank you for ikiwiki - it is what I was always looking
+for - coming from a whole bunch of wiki engines, this is the most
+intelligent and least bloated one.
+
+My question is about the [[plugins/attachment]] plugin in conjunction with
+[[plugins/filecheck]]: I am using soundmanger2 js-library for having
+attached media files of all sorts played inline a page.
+
+To achieve this soundmanager2 asks for an id inside a ul-tag surrounding
+the a-tag. I was wondering if the Insert Link button could be provided with
+a more elegant solution than to have this code snippet to be filled in by
+hand every time you use it to insert links for attached media files. And in
+fact there apparently is a way in attachment.pm.
+
+While I can see that it is not needed for everyone inserting links to
+attached media files to have ul- and li-tags surrounding the link itself as
+well as being supplied with an id fill in, for me it would be the most
+straight forward solution. Pitty is I don't have the time to wrap my head
+around perl to write a patch myself. Is there any way to have this made an
+option which can be called via templates?
+
+For sure I would like to donate for such a patch as well as I will do it
+for ikiwiki anyway, because it is such a fine application.
+
+If you are not familiar with soundmanager2: It is a very straight forward
+solution to inline mediafiles, using the usual flash as well as html5
+solutions (used by soundcloud.com, freesound.org and the like). Worth a
+look anyway [schillmania.com](http://www.schillmania.com/)
+
+Boris
+
+> The behavior of "Insert Links" is currently hardcoded to support images
+> and has a fallback for other files. What you want is a
+> [[todo/generic_insert_links]] that can insert a template directive.
+> Then you could make a template that generates the html needed for
+> soundmanager2. I've written down a design at
+> [[todo/generic_insert_links]]; I am currently very busy and not sure
+> when I will get around to writing it, but with it on the todo list
+> I shouldn't forget. --[[Joey]]
+>
+> You could make a [[ikiwiki/directive/template]] for soundmanager2
+> now, and manually insert the template directive for now
+> when you want to embed a sound file. Something like this:
+
+ \[[!template id=embed_mp3 file=your.mp3]]
+
+> Then in templates/embed_mp3.mdwn, something vaguely like this:
+
+ <ul id="foo">
+ <a href="<TMPL_VAR FILE>">mp3</a>
+ </ul>
+
+>> Thanks a lot - looking forward to [[todo/generic_insert_links]] - I am using the [[ikiwiki/directive/template]] variant also adding a name vaiable, it looks like this and is working fine:
+
+ <ul class="playlist">
+ <li>
+ <a href="<TMPL_VAR FILE>"><TMPL_VAR NAME></a>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+>> Calling it:
+
+ \[[!template id=embedmedia.tmpl file=../Tinas_Gonna_Have_A_Baby.mp3 name="Tina's Gonna Have A Baby" ]]
+
+>> BTW your Flattr button doesn't seem to work properly - or it is Flattr itself that doesn't- clicking it won't let ikiwiki show up on my Dashboard.