Ah sorry, I didn’t know that, Chrome user here.
And I also didn’t know that you work for Bandcamp … that’s cool!
-- Peter Crighton | Musician & Music Engraver based in Mainz, Germany http://www.petercrighton.de 2012/10/31 Leigh Dyer <lsd@wootangent.net>: > On 01/11/12 08:37, Peter Crighton wrote: >> >> Only two comments to that for now: >> >> 1. The default Soundcloud widget is HTML5 since the beginning of the year. > > > It's worth noting that Soundcloud HTML5 player only actually uses HTML5 when > the browser supports MP3, which is notably not the case in Firefox or > Chromium (though Google's official Chrome builds do include it). If you open > a Soundcloud stream on one of those browsers, it'll still use Flash. > > At Bandcamp we have the same problem, and we currently solve it in the same > way -- by using HTML5 on browsers that support it, and using Flash > elsewhere. Switching to open codecs (eg: Vorbis) that are supported in > Firefox is not a practical solution, since Apple and MS have so far refused > to support them. > > Personally, I'm really hoping the new Opus codec sees wide adoption among > browser makers. I wouldn't normally be optimistic about an open codec > gaining support from the likes of Apple or MS, but it's currently a > mandatory part of the WebRTC spec, so there's some slim hope that we may in > future be able to use one streaming format for all HTML5 browsers. > > Thanks > Leigh > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-userReceived on Thu Nov 1 20:15:01 2012
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