<audio> not working in FF but fine in Chrome/Safari

[slothmister]

I am trying to develop a simple audio page for my website.

www.kevinroseworld.com/Music.aspx

It works fine in Chrome and Safari but not in Firefox. However, when I go to w3c schools the <audio> element works fine.

http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tryit.as ... tml5_audio

I have tried everything I can think of, even changing the code so it is identical (except the name of the .ogg file ofc) to that supplied on the w3c site.

www.kevinroseworld.com/Music2.aspx

Can anyone suggest why this is not working?

[zcorpan]

http://forums.whatwg.org/viewtopic.php?t=4364

[zcorpan]

Actually it seems like your Ogg files are giving 404s.

[slothmister]

Yes I saw that link, thats basically what made me post my own topic, while it is VERY similar to my problem it is also very different.

As for the 404's thats VERY strange.

I do not get any when viewing www.kevinroseworld.com/music.aspx in chrome but in firefox I get the 404's.

Any idea why this is? I know 404 is basically file not found, but why would firefox have problems when chrome does not?

[zcorpan]

Chrome supports MP3, so it would use the second <source>, while Firefox only supports Ogg (and WebM).

[slothmister]

Chrome supports MP3, so it would use the second <source>, while Firefox only supports Ogg (and WebM).

Ye I am aware of this, however I have both mp3 and ogg as my source files. So this does not help me.

Been looking into it and looks like firefox might not support the <audio> tag all on its own (ie needs more to get it to work) but if that is the case then why does the w3cschools player work fine??

[zcorpan]

Ye I am aware of this, however I have both mp3 and ogg as my source files. So this does not help me.

It explains why chrome plays the audio but firefox not if the ogg files are missing.

Been looking into it and looks like firefox might not support the <audio> tag all on its own (ie needs more to get it to work) but if that is the case then why does the w3cschools player work fine??

Firefox supports <audio> fine as far as I know. The only problem I see is that the ogg resources are 404s (not only in firefox but also e.g. if you try typing in http://www.kevinroseworld.com/Music/Oka ... anRora.ogg in http://rexswain.com/httpview.html ). I see that the ogg files are listed in the directory listing at http://www.kevinroseworld.com/Music/OkaVanga/OkaVanga/ so I don't know why the server gives 404...

[slothmister]

Ahhhh

Thank you for spotting this. I now have a new angle of attack

It could be a permissions thing.

Thank you again

[slothmister]

Thank you for your help.

Further digging indicated a problem with the files themselves. They were lacking a MIME type.

[fairyanna]

onclick is a JavaScript event, counting how long the mouse button is active is also a JavaScript event. This has nothing to do with HTML as far as I can see.


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