Add support for HTML5 audio and/or MP3 playback [SOLVED]

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Add support for HTML5 audio and/or MP3 playback [SOLVED]

Unread post by KNTRO » 2014-07-23, 04:41

Hi everyone,

Yesterday I visited the Grooveshark HTML5 website with Pale Moon 24.6.2 and I got this warning:
It looks like your current browser doesn't support HTML5 audio and/or mp3 playback. If you have flash, you can use the full version of Grooveshark, or you can upgrade to a browser that supports HTML5 audio and MP3 playback.
I wonder if future Pale Moon versions could add support for HTML5 audio playback, please.

Thank you in advance.
Last edited by KNTRO on 2014-07-28, 05:21, edited 1 time in total.

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Re: Add support for HTML5 audio and/or MP3 playback

Unread post by New Tobin Paradigm » 2014-07-23, 04:50

I can play MP3s in Pale Moon.. using the built in html5 audio player...

In some cases if there isn't a codec that ships with the browser it will use system codecs.. Are you sure the site isn't just user agent profiling like is almost ALWAYS the issue?
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Re: Add support for HTML5 audio and/or MP3 playback

Unread post by buggy » 2014-07-23, 06:10

Not this warning on my side?
Off-topic:
btw personally i prefer the old version: http://retro.grooveshark.com/

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Re: Add support for HTML5 audio and/or MP3 playback

Unread post by KNTRO » 2014-07-23, 07:32

Mmm… I don't know what's wrong with my Pale Moon then.

@mattatobin @buggy What plugins do you have enabled, guys?

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Re: Add support for HTML5 audio and/or MP3 playback

Unread post by Trippynet » 2014-07-23, 09:01

Grooveshark works fine here too. Only plugin I have which might make a difference is the VLC one. Well, that and Flash...

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Re: Add support for HTML5 audio and/or MP3 playback

Unread post by buggy » 2014-07-23, 09:26

I have always only two plugins enabled, Flash and QuickTime.

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Re: Add support for HTML5 audio and/or MP3 playback

Unread post by Parsifal » 2014-07-23, 10:23

I had set media.windows-media-foundation.enabled to false when default = true in order to ease mp3 files downloads, and noticed the same message from Grooveshark HTML website.
Reverting media.windows-media-foundation.enabled to true solved the Grooveshark HTML5 issue.

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Re: Add support for HTML5 audio and/or MP3 playback

Unread post by KNTRO » 2014-07-23, 19:28

@mattatobin @buggy @Trippynet @Parsifal Thank all of you, guys.

This is really weird. I just tried this under Firefox ESR 24.7 on the same system —with Adobe Flash Player 14.0.0.145 enabled— and got the same message; even with media.windows-media-foundation.enabled set to both true or false. There's must be an issue with my OS, I think.

I'm gonna check this on Windows 7 later.

Again, thank you, folks. There's no Pale Moon without this wonderful community. :thumbup:

Respect.

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Re: Add support for HTML5 audio and/or MP3 playback

Unread post by New Tobin Paradigm » 2014-07-23, 20:10

Ok.. I thought this MIGHT be an XP related issue.. Here is a suggestion. Stop using an unsupported obsoleted OS. However, you COULD try to check if you HAVE the windows media foundation stuff installed on XP. It may work then.

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Re: Add support for HTML5 audio and/or MP3 playback

Unread post by Moonchild » 2014-07-23, 20:53

The Windows Media Foundation is indeed not available on Windows XP. That would be your issue. Since the Mozilla code base for these codecs (that are not open or royalty-free formats, like MP3 and H.264) passes the data to WMF for decoding, and WMF isn't available on your OS, this will cause your error message. There is no solution for this, apart from using a media plugin that supports it or using a current OS.
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Re: Add support for HTML5 audio and/or MP3 playback

Unread post by KNTRO » 2014-07-28, 05:20

Moonchild's right — This works OK on W7. Just tested. So, case solved.

Sorry for not testing this on W7 before posting this. :oops:

Best!

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