[LAU] musicmadewithlinux: soundcloud music stream

[Leigh Dyer]

On 18/07/12 00:22, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 16:02 +0200, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just added a soundcloud plugin to http://linux-audio.com . I've been
>> listening to it for a couple of hours now. Lots of good tracks on the
>> stream.
>>
>> Worth checking out if you have some spare time.
>>
>> I'm looking into adding a bandcamp stream next.
>
> Thanks for the recommendation :). I prefer to listen to "free" music.
> Regarding to bandcamp I've got some serious reservations (not of that
> kind "Ralf overdoes it agin", but really), IIRC you need to allow
> everything and you must have flash installed. It might be
> better/different today, but IIRC it was like that some years ago.
> Good music, but an odd web page.

You no longer need Flash to upload music to Bandcamp, unless you're 
using an old version of IE -- uploads now use HTML5 features in Firefox, 
Chrome, etc. On desktop browsers, I think you still need Flash for 
streaming, but it uses HTML5 for streaming on mobile devices, and the 
embedded player widgets for use on other sites also use HTML5 on desktop 
browsers that support it.

There's one caveat with the HTML5 support -- it's only on browsers that 
can play MP3 natively, so Chrome will use HTML5, but Firefox still 
requires Flash. Last time I checked, Soundcloud's new HTML5 widgets 
still use Flash on Firefox, for the same reason.

Thanks
Leigh