<script>
    var api = 'https://api.soundcloud.com/resolve.json?url=',
        clientid = '&client_id=<?php echo get_theme_mod( "soundcloud-clientid")?>';
    jQuery(document).ready(function(){
      var el = jQuery('._post_meta_soundcloud_trackurl');
      el.parent().append('<a class="button get_sc_id" style="margin-top:25px">Get</a>');

      jQuery(document).on('click', '.get_sc_id', function(){
        var url = el.val(),
            _url = api+url+clientid,
            that = jQuery(this);
        if(that.hasClass('disabled')) return;
        that.addClass('disabled');
        if(url == '') return;
        jQuery.ajax({
          url: _url,
          method: "GET"
        }).done(function( obj ) {
          jQuery('._post_meta_soundcloud_trackid').val(obj.id);
          that.removeClass('disabled');
        }).fail(function( jqXHR, textStatus ) {
          that.removeClass('disabled');
          alert( "Request failed: " + textStatus );
        });
      })
    });
  </script>

<?php
/*
Title: Music Fields
Description: this is the description
Post Type: download
Order: 1
Collapse: false
*/
  piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'select'
    ,'field' => 'music_type'
    ,'label' => esc_html__('Type','musik')
    ,'description' => esc_html__('Default is single, select bundle when this is a bundle product.','musik')
    ,'choices' => array(
      'single' => 'Single'
      ,'bundle' => 'Bundle'
    )
    ,'value' => 'single'
    ,'on_post_status' => array(
        'value' => 'lock'
      )
  ));

  piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'select'
    ,'field' => 'preview_type'
    ,'label' => esc_html__('Preview','musik')
    ,'choices' => array(
      'local' => 'Local'
      ,'remote' => 'Remote'
    )
    ,'conditions' => array(
      array(
        'field' => 'music_type'
        ,'value' => 'single'
      )
    )
    ,'on_post_status' => array(
        'value' => 'lock'
      )
  ));

  piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'file'
    ,'field' => 'preview'
    ,'scope' => 'post_meta'
    ,'label' => esc_html__('Preview file','musik')
    ,'description' => esc_html__('Preview audio file, you can add mp3, ogg, mp4 file(s).','musik')
    ,'conditions' => array(
      array(
        'field' => 'preview_type'
        ,'value' => 'local'
      ),
      array(
        'field' => 'music_type'
        ,'value' => 'single'
      )
    )
    ,'on_post_status' => array(
        'value' => 'lock'
      )
  ));

  piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'group'
    ,'field' => 'preview_url'
    ,'label' => esc_html__('Preview file','musik')
    ,'add_more' => true
    ,'fields' => array(
      array(
        'type' => 'select'
        ,'field' => 'preview_media_type'
        ,'label' => esc_html__('Format','musik')
        ,'columns' => 2
        ,'choices' => array(
          'mp3' => 'mp3'
          ,'m4a' => 'mp4'
          ,'m4v' => 'm4v'
          ,'oga' => 'ogg'
          ,'webma' => 'webm'
        )
      )
      ,array(
        'type' => 'text'
        ,'field' => 'preview_media_url'
        ,'label' =>  esc_html__('URL','musik')
        ,'columns' => 10
      )
    )
    ,'conditions' => array(
      array(
        'field' => 'preview_type'
        ,'value' => 'remote'
      ),
      array(
        'field' => 'music_type'
        ,'value' => 'single'
      )
    )
    ,'on_post_status' => array(
      'value' => 'lock'
    )
  ));

  piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'group'
    ,'label' => 'Soundcloud'
    ,'description' => esc_html__('Input the soundcloud url and click the get button','musik')
    ,'fields' => array(
      array(
        'type' => 'text'
        ,'field' => 'soundcloud_trackid'
        ,'label' => 'trackid'
        ,'columns' => 3
      )
      ,array(
        'type' => 'text'
        ,'field' => 'soundcloud_trackurl'
        ,'label' => 'url'
        ,'columns' => 7
      )
    )
  ));

  piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'text'
    ,'field' => 'year'
    ,'label' => esc_html__('Publish year','musik')
    ,'attributes' => array(
      'class' => 'regular-text'
      ,'placeholder' => '2015'
    )
  ));
  piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'text'
    ,'field' => 'time'
    ,'label' => esc_html__('Duration','musik')
    ,'attributes' => array(
      'class' => 'regular-text'
      ,'placeholder' => '00:00'
    )
  ));
  piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'text'
    ,'field' => 'itunes'
    ,'label' => esc_html__('iTunes','musik')
    ,'attributes' => array(
      'class' => 'regular-text'
      ,'placeholder' => 'http://'
    )
  ));
  piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'text'
    ,'field' => 'googleplay'
    ,'label' => esc_html__('Google Play','musik')
    ,'attributes' => array(
      'class' => 'regular-text'
      ,'placeholder' => 'http://'
    )
  ));

  piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'group'
    ,'field' => 'links'
    ,'label' => esc_html__('Links','musik')
    ,'add_more' => true
    ,'fields' => array(
      array(
        'type' => 'text'
        ,'field' => 'link_text'
        ,'label' =>  esc_html__('Text','musik')
        ,'columns' => 4
      )
      ,array(
        'type' => 'text'
        ,'field' => 'link_url'
        ,'label' =>  esc_html__('URL','musik')
        ,'columns' => 8
        ,'attributes' => array(
          'class' => 'regular-text'
          ,'placeholder' => 'http://'
        )
      )
    )
    ,'on_post_status' => array(
      'value' => 'lock'
    )
  ));

  piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'checkbox'
    ,'field' => 'hide_play'
    ,'label' => esc_html__('Hide play btn','musik')
    ,'choices' => array(
      'first' => ''
    )
    ,'on_post_status' => array(
      'value' => 'lock'
    )
  ));

  piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'checkbox'
    ,'field' => 'download'
    ,'label' => esc_html__('Allow download music','musik')
    ,'description' => esc_html__('Download the preview file','musik')
    ,'choices' => array(
      'first' => ''
    )
    ,'on_post_status' => array(
      'value' => 'lock'
    )
  ));

  piklist('field', array(
    'type' => 'text'
    ,'field' => 'plays'
    ,'label' => esc_html__('Play count','musik')
    ,'attributes' => array(
      'class' => 'regular-text'
    )
    ,'capability' => 'administrator'
  ));
  
?>

Steve thanks for the help on this. I removed ,'field' => 'preview_url' and replaced the original file inside the theme and it did not fix the issue.

By the way I really do appreciate the support so far, I am at a dead end and you have been awesome in response.

Website: http://www.optinondemand.com.php56-29.ord1-1.websitetestlink.com/

preview_media_url is what I use right now and the RSS Syndication plugin throws the url in there perfectly, just seems like it doesn’t stick until I hit update on the post.

Yup it shows up in the database

Well now I feel embarrassed and happy all at once haha!

It changed from:

https://audioboom.com/boos/4481292-13-take-a-lovely-journey-to-westeros.mp3?source=rss&stitched=1

to

https://audioboom.com/boos/4481292-13-take-a-lovely-journey-to-westeros.mp3?source=rss&stitched=1

audio/mpeg

-So what it looks like it’s doing is adding audio/mpeg below that line with a space. I am going to try to replicate that using feedwordpress and send that to the field and see if that works. You might of just helped me over my roadblock.

Alright so I noticed when looking in the DB there’s preview_media_url and enclosure below it. I was clicking on enclosure by accident and that is where I was seeing that it was appending audio/mpeg to the end of the preview media url.

Now I found something that does change in the DB after publish. At the very end of the DB once published it adds another meta value with the same key name but does it in I believe a serialized way.

I added some pictures of what I mean from the first preview media url to what the update adds in…

I see so when I detach that from the group it will then correctly add the field like the screenshots I sent.

I will have to figure out how to do that since I never touched Piklist until this project and this is another devs theme. Is it as easy as grabbing that field info and putting it after said group?

Music.php file for reference: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6gTiZfhhWDDRlBPbTJmc25LZzQ/view?usp=sharing

Nope just one remote file url – essentially that field is used by the themes music player to play an mp3 (podcast) from that field

So I swapped the code out with that section and then noticed the published databases look the same and nothing could play. Then I updated one of the posts and watch as it added another post meta field but this time just did the url without that structure it had before. It must need that structure to read the url because it doesn’t work even if you update the post now.

I am sorry with my phrasing – it added an entry to the database like it normally does when I hit update but this time not in the same style that the theme needs.

Before code change: preview_media_url a:2:{s:18:"preview_media_type";a:1:{i:0;s:3:"mp3";}s:17:"preview_media_url";a:1:{i:0;s:97:"https://audioboom.com/boos/4481292-13-take-a-lovely-journey-to-westeros.mp3?source=rss&stitched=1";}}

After code change: preview_media_url https://audioboom.com/boos/4450141-12-all-aboard-the-e3-hypetrain.mp3?source=rss&stitched=1