Enable MP3 support for Commons uploads and TMH/etc. playback

Re:Enable MP3 support for Commons uploads and TMH/etc. playback by frik on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @12:35AM (#14853666)

Finally one will be able to play the embeddded audio files that are on wiki pages on sone platforms/software. MP3 is far better supported everywhere than OGG.

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Re:Enable MP3 support for Commons uploads and TMH/etc. playback by TD-Linux on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @01:18AM (#14853819)

You can already play Wikipedia's audio files on Edge or Safari. Try it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Adventure_Lights.ogg

Spoiler: it's ogv.js.

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Re:Enable MP3 support for Commons uploads and TMH/etc. playback by protocow on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @01:46AM (#14853891)

Cool, but, as for your example, I didn't recognize those sounds as music and for a moment thought I couldn't play ogg after all. Try instead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mozart_-_Eine_kleine_Nach...

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Re:Enable MP3 support for Commons uploads and TMH/etc. playback by yuhong on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @01:25AM (#14853838)

Note this has been a problem as long as Wikipedia existed though.

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Re:Enable MP3 support for Commons uploads and TMH/etc. playback by comex on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @02:48AM (#14854104)

Doesn’t work on iOS, even though the official ogv.js demo works.

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Re:Enable MP3 support for Commons uploads and TMH/etc. playback by morecoffee on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @02:58AM (#14854129)

Adding on to this: iOS doesn't play mp3 for mp4 containers either. Encoding media to play on an iDevice means resorting to AAC, which doesn't have as good licensed codecs.

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