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It's time to roll out the Jukebox and wish everyone a ...
12/25/2018, 00:30:39





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Well, I can't get the music to play on any of my three browsers....
12/25/2018, 02:38:31

    Bones writes:

    If you do get music and know why, please let us know. Thanks.




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Jukebox
12/25/2018, 03:53:59

    Zoltan the green writes:

    I specially came to listen Christmas ( Jukebox




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It works on my version of IE running under Win10, but not on Firefox, which is my default browser
12/25/2018, 04:33:19

    Peter2 writes:

    For my own computing health and safety, I've set up Firefox to run on a higher security level – it's running with ad-blockers and pop-up blockers active and only limited access from 3rd party apps. The juke box doesn't run with that set-up.

    I use IE very sparingly because it is set up with minimal security – no blockers active and access by all 3rd party applications – and with that set-up, the juke box runs fine. It's the first time I've got to hear the Carol of the Bells in quite a few years!

    Merry Christmas everyone!





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I don't get music, but I do also know why .
01/06/2019, 18:22:48

    Ramillies writes:

    It has to do with the way the individual music pages are written. It looks like they've been written back in the times when getting a browser to reliably play anything was a major pain.

    I had a look at the source, and saw that you use two different tags to play the music. The first one is the <bgmusic> — Micro$oft's own tag that was only ever recognized by Internet Explorer; and the second is the <embed>, which is recognized by pretty much all browsers, but it essentially just tells the browser "here, have this file and try to display it somehow", which can lead to pretty random results, depending on the target browser and its configuration.

    There is a way to fix it, however: today, we have HTML 5, which is widely supported, and with HTML 5 there comes the <audio> tag. So that is a very reliable way of getting the audio played in the vast majority of browsers. The only problem is that it supports only MP3, WAV and OGG formats, so the MIDI files would have to be converted first. If you would like to go this way, I could easily convert the files and send you the results (it would be probably 2 minutes of work for me; and I also have quite a good soundfont, so some people could actually get better playback with this). The downside is that it would take a couple of megabytes on the server's disk and it wouldn't be 56k friendly anymore, if anybody still uses that .

    (The code itself would be very simple: you would just write something like <audio autoplay loop controls src="whatever-music.ogg" /> and that's it.)





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I'll join with Bones in this – A Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all
12/25/2018, 04:39:12

    Peter2 writes:

    And may 2019 treat you all kindly




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And I'm a bit late to the party, but I still hope you enjoyed whatever winter holiday you observe.
01/06/2019, 18:32:29

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