Another information technology problem in the world order. This time I was having problems with a third party website that I just recently converted from a WordPress content management system website to a hyper text markup language static website. One of the issues I noticed was that the HTML5 audio player not working in Mozilla Firefox web browser.
You see hyper text markup language version 5 has support for embedded media. You can use the built in <audio> tag to play audio. For example you could provide the playback of songs or even live radio.
However, to my chagrin the embedded HTML5 audio player not working problem only occurred in Mozilla Firefox web browser. As a web devoloper, webmaster, website owner, etc. it is always a good idea to test your websites functionality. Especially, in different web browsers, as currently not all web browsers support the same type of Internet technology.
I am not an exclusive web developer so I did not know that Mozilla Firefox web browser does actually natively support MP3 audio playback, at least at the time of this blog post creation. However, with this hyper text markup language code below, my live audio stream would not work in Mozilla Firefox web browser.
<audio controls>
<source src="http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com:8000/" type="audio/mpeg">
</audio>I add this line of code below, in addition to the code above, into the hyper text markup language web page that had an embedded audio player.
<source src="http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com:8000/" type="audio/ogg">I tested the web page with the embedded audio player and viola I could hear audio in Mozilla Firefox web browser. This Stack Overlow question response claims that both Mozilla Firefox and Opera web browsers prefer playing OGGing audio files instead of Moving Picture Experts Group audio layer 3 files also known as MP3. Ironically, Mozilla Firefox supports Moving Picture Experts Group audio layer 3 files in their official documentation.
Also, I did not independently verify whether or not the live streaming audio would work in Opera web browser. I have not installed or used Opera web browser in years. However, as a amateur web developer of sorts, I guess I had better install it one day for website testing purposes.
Interestingly enough Mozilla Firefox web browser supports these audio formats:
- .wav
- .wave
- vorbis
- .ogg
- .opus
- .oga
- .ogv
- .ogx
- .spx
- .flac
- .mp3
I fixed another information technology HTML5 audio player not working quagmire, for now at least.
HTML5 Audio Player Not Working – in Firefox Web Browser Video Transcript
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ultra video powder d
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oh another quagmire now this one’s a
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more personal quagmire
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in information technology
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i’m transitioning away from a content
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management system known as wordpress
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with that god-awful guten editor
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to static html because i’ve had it i’ve
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had it with content management systems
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here’s a tip according to google
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they prefer they recommend that you have
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the fastest loading website
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possible so you may not want to use
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wordpress
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it’s slow and that god i fucking hate
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that goon editor i’ll just be blunt
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and honest that’s one that’s the main
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reason why
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i’m converting anet computers.com to
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static
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hypertext markup language all right so
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now this deals with another website
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which i will not disclose
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and i converted that website from that
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god awful good editor and wordpress to
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static html hypertext markup language
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i was live streaming audio on that
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website
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and then i tested it because you know i
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converted the website and so you want to
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test
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and the audio would not work in mozilla
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firefox web browser
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and i was stumped i was like
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incredulous with a chagrin
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and i was like what the fuck so here is
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the solution
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if you have problems streaming audio or
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getting audio to play
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in hyper text markup language
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with the audio tag
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in mozilla firefox and also possibly
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opera
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here is the possible fix this is what
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fixed
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my problem here is the code so let me
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quickly describe
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the code now in hypertext markup
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language
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the current version is five you are able
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to embed both audio and video
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because it has a built-in audio and
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video player it’s not the bling bling
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bling it’s not
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you know holly weird style it’s not even
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las vegas style with the flashing lights
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and
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oh my god the the most gorgeous
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you know media player on the planet oh
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my god no
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it has a basic audio player but it works
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very
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well this is my original code
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so in hypertext markup language you use
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you can use this tag
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to stream and play audio
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in your website audio controls that’s
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the opening tag
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controls tells it to load controls like
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you know volume adjustment
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etc you can use the you can take out the
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controls if you wanted to and it would
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just be the audio tag but i don’t want
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to digress about the specifics
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of each you know tag in hypertext markup
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language
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because i’m really not an expert but i
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know how to code some
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all right now you have to tell the
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source
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so this second line is just telling
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hypertext markup language
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this the source of the audio
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so that it will play in an embedded
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player on the web page
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and then you tell the hypertext markup
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language what is the type what is the
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type of audio
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that you’re wanting me to play
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and audio slash mpeg is actually for mp3
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so officially mozilla firefox supports
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mp3 although mp3 i think requires a
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license i could be wrong but i think
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mozilla has to pay a license fee in
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order for you to
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have the ability to play mp3 audio
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in their web browser mozilla firefox
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now og which i will get to is an open
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source codec
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they don’t require a licensing fee
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however according to a stack overflow
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question post that i found
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both mozilla firefox and opera they
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don’t they support
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mp3 but they don’t necessarily like to
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support it
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it doesn’t work very well so this is
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what fixed my problem
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now here’s the closing tag slash audio
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in hypertext markup language
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the forward slash closes the tag
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it tells the interpreter stop
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stop with the audio controls stop right
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now
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here’s the second line that i added to
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fix my problem
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it’s just this line right here that i
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highlighted it i’m telling it the source
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of the audio it could be an mp3 file it
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could be
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the destination on the web server to an
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mp3 or
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another audio file obviously this is not
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but i’m not going to get into the
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details here
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this is what fixed it i added in this
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type
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so i added two types two lines
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with the same source but with two
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different
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audio types type equals
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audio slash og ogg
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is an open source audio codec that both
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mazuro firefox and opera supports
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and it’s open source and so you don’t
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have to pay a licensing fee
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you know what i’m saying and that’s what
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fixed it i don’t know why that is i
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don’t know if it’s a glitch or a bug
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with mozilla firefox web browser
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but according to the post from stack
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overflow
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i guess it you know both mozilla firefox
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and opera web browsers and notorious for
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not
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necessarily being you know mp3 friendly
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even though
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both web browsers support mp3 so i’m
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just not 100 certain all i know is i fix
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the problem
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now when i went back to that and i can’t
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demonstrate because it’s a third-party
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website it’s an activist website
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and i will never ever discuss it because
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of the american
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communist socialist americans that do
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not want to become free
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they are commies their control freaks
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they will snitch on you they will troll
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you
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they will swat you ad nauseum at
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infinite
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but if you run into this problem where
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for whatever reason html5 audio player
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is not working
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in mozilla firefox web browser this is a
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potential fix
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you you tell you you give the
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html you stipulate two types of audio
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and it actually fixed it before it would
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not work with this
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tag or excuse me with this type i don’t
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know why that’s bizarre
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but when i added the audio alt tag it
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worked and
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i’m my streamer the streams audio alive
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24 hours a day on this
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website it’s actually
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the variable i stipulated was mp3
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so it’s streaming in mp3 but it won’t
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play in mp3 in mozilla firefox
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so i added aug as a type and it and it
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plays now
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i added the additional
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line right here underneath this one in
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between the two tags in between the
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opening and the closing
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i saved it the changes on my web server
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i cleared the web browser cache
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for mozilla and i refreshed that page
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and bam
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it loaded the player correctly if if it
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doesn’t if it will not play
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it could be it could be just you know a
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coding error
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or in this instance it didn’t like the
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type i don’t know why that is
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the button will be grayed out the button
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will
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will not be grayed out and you’ll be
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able to click on it
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if the stream loads correctly it loaded
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correctly i clicked on play and bam
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is start playing so that is my solution
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and you can check out my blog post where
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i
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you know discuss more about this and
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then you can check out the code that
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you’ll need to enter
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now this is for audio only this is for
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html5
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hypertext markup language and this is
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for embedding
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the the built-in audio player that html5
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includes now and how to get it to work
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in mozilla firefox and opera i did not
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test an opera
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i have not installed opera web browser
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in like
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what a century i mean yeah
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five years at least because i never
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really liked opera yeah it worked okay i
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just did
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the interface the graphical user
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interface is just kind of
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i’m sorry but for me it was kind of
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jankety
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i know that slang oh i know you pale
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skinned european supremacists
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number you hate us people with color and
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especially you don’t like
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it when we use slang or we don’t use
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proper european
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terms all right it was janky but
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you know i should probably install opera
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so i could test properly i did have i
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don’t like mozilla firefox web browser
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it’s bloated it’s it’s largest although
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i will say recently
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when i do use it to test my website it
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seems to be functioning faster
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and whereas a couple of months ago i’m
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like what the fuck is this shit
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it is indeed a brave new world for
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people with color in the european pale
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skin supremacist world order
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the web bras are brave you know it loads
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it up pretty quick but fucking mozilla
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firefox but now recently it’s much much
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quicker i’m not sure why that is but i
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do not rely on mozilla firefox but i i
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understand that a lot of individuals
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on the internet they will use mozilla
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firefox they will use
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opera and they will use chrome i did not
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test in chrome
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now brave is based upon chromium but
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it’s not
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exactly like google chrome web browser
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so but i should probably
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install well let’s see i guess i should
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just install
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every web browser ever built including
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netscape
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and how about links the text only i mean
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it gets ridiculous
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and some of these web browser developers
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they don’t necessarily support
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all of the same media codex
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so it’s just but i am much happier
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with i have two websites now that i
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converted from that god awful wordpress
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with that atrocious guten editor
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talk about gluten i mean intolerance i
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mean good
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i have a guten editor intolerance
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you know what i’m saying adios