Joined: Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:45 pm Posts: 1730 Location: Leelanau County, MI
Re: mp3 player not working? NOW WORKING
Note that some of the solutions proposed will handle the incompatibilities for you so it's not as bad as all that. I'm just venting as the pissing contests over audio formats tends to get on my nerves.
My own site currently uses the old Wordpress flash solution which I always liked. I've been looking into JPlayer as a possible solution so that my audio files will play on mobile.
Joined: Sat Dec 22, 2007 3:07 pm Posts: 7088 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Re: mp3 player not working? NOW WORKING
Manny wrote:
EricTheGray wrote:
I'd like to make a pitch to switch to an HTML 5 based music player. It is very clear that Flash is (finally) on the way out and it would be great to be able to hear music postings on my mobile devices. Adobe has already announced that they are dropping support for Flash on all mobile devices including Android. I read this forum almost exclusively on my iPad. Here are some HTML 5 music players to consider. There are more out there, this is good start for experimenting.
It will fall back to Flash if HTML 5 is not supported. It's made to be part of the jQuery library which is the leading lib for lots of web site work these days. We teach jQuery to our last semester students. The list of browsers above comprises almost all web traffic at the time. Mobile traffic is growing rapidly and none of the mobile browsers will support flash soon.
Oh, the Firefox team has changed their mind and will be supporting MP3 at some point. It also supports it under Flash still.
Joined: Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:45 pm Posts: 1730 Location: Leelanau County, MI
Re: mp3 player not working? NOW WORKING
The "supported list" is a little misleading though. jPlayer works on Firefox but only as much as Firefox supports HTML5 audio. In other words, it works great as long as you feed it an ogg voorbis file. It doesn't play MP3. I've also heard that Firefox is only planning on relaxing their stance against MP3 on the mobile version of their browser but not on the desktop (note: it's always entertaining watching grown people commit suicide). Either that will change or that browser will die.
I haven't looked into too many of the HTML5 solutions so some of the others might have put in hooks to use the fallback flash player on all versions of Firefox.
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