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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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