[LAU] About Soundcloud

[Peter Crighton]

Ah sorry, I didn’t know that, Chrome user here.

And I also didn’t know that you work for Bandcamp … that’s cool!

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Peter Crighton | Musician & Music Engraver based in Mainz, Germany
http://www.petercrighton.de


2012/10/31 Leigh Dyer <lsd at 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
>
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