Audioplayer used to work fine on my blog but has dissapeared

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  petefromhackney · Member · Mar 31, 2013 at 12:43 pm

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  Some months ago I bought a space. I have put MP3 files on my blog, selected the “none” option for link to URL and the audio player automatically appeared on my blog. It all worked fine.
  Suddenly today I cannot see the audio player but the word “download”
  Whta has happened to the audioplayer, that used to work OK and has now dissappeared ?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Apr 1, 2013 at 4:08 am

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  I’m sorry for the inconvenience!

  We have had to temporarily disable the Flash audio player. If your browser does not natively support the format of the embedded audio file, you’ll see a download link instead.

  At this time:

  Chrome natively supports: .mp3, .m4a, .wav, and .ogg.

  Safari natively supports: .mp3, .m4a, .wav, but not .ogg (which will display a download link).

  Firefox natively supports: .wav and .ogg, but not .mp3 and .m4a (which will both display a download link).

  Opera natively supports: .wav and .ogg, but not .mp3 and .m4a (which will both display a download link).

  Internet Explorer natively supports: .mp3, but not .m4a, .wav, and .ogg (which will all display a download link).

  What formats a browser chooses to natively support is entirely up to the browser’s developers, we have no control over that.

  Until now, we have given the Flash audio player precedence, fallen back to the browser’s native player when Flash isn’t available, and then fallen back to the Download link when the format is not supported by the browser.

  With the Flash player temporarily disabled, we are giving the browser’s native player precedence and falling back to the Download link when the format is not supported by the browser.

  Whether it’s via an embedded player or a Download link, all of your viewers will be able to play the audio files.