Firefox (and Opera) streaming MP3 support

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  thevaultkingston · Member · Mar 31, 2013 at 4:46 am

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  http://break-the-vault.com is a music blog that runs through WordPress.com (obviously). We post an mp3 file of a song and have a quick write-up about it to go with it. As of today, streaming mp3 files doesn’t seem to be supported by Firefox or Opera. I can’t speak for Opera personally, but for Firefox I’ve never had a problem till now. Can we expect Firefox to be supported in the future? Or are Opera and Firefox users just going to get left out in the cold?

  The only reason we’re worried about this is that now it is INCREDIBLY easy for those users to see the link to the file and download it. This is somewhat of a big problem since we’re a blog posting other people’s music. We want to showcase music, not provide direct download links.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Apr 3, 2013 at 5:54 pm

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  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).

  Which 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.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Apr 5, 2013 at 2:07 pm

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  The Flash audio player is now back. Thank you for your patience.

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  thevaultkingston · Member · Apr 7, 2013 at 3:17 pm

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  Thanks for answering the original post thoroughly! Just this saw now.