Hello Albert,

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Albert FR <<br />airtime-dev@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:

> jplayer, soundmanager2 ?
> for what reasons ?
>

A short while ago, I was looking for a web based player that had HTML5
support with Flash fallback. I wanted to have the Ogg Vorbis stream (64
Kbps) as primary and the MP3 stream (32 Kbps) as a fall-back for browsers
that don't support Ogg Vorbis. Tried jPlayer, flowplayer, MediaElement.js
and all of them (if they could play the Ogg stream at all) would stop each
time Airtime switched to the next track in Firefox and Chrome. Also, the
same thing happens when I click the Listen button in the Airtime console.

Right now, I'm using an older version of MediaElement.js configured with
just the MP3 stream because it's already used for other things on the site
and it seems to be working fine although it doesn't display any metadata.

SoundManager2 looks like a good player but I've not tried it yet.

What I'd really like is an optional pop-up dialog with a player for the
streams from Airtime but also with the ability for a user to click on links
to MP3's on the web site which would get added to a playlist in the dialog.
This would likely need to be either multiple player configurations and
custom written.

-Bill

Hello Martin,


On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Martin Konecny <<br />airtime-dev@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:

> A short while ago, I was looking for a web based player that had HTML5
> support with Flash fallback. I wanted to have the Ogg Vorbis stream (64
> Kbps) as primary and the MP3 stream (32 Kbps) as a fall-back for browsers
> that don't support Ogg Vorbis. Tried jPlayer, flowplayer, MediaElement.js
> and all of them (if they could play the Ogg stream at all) would stop each
> time Airtime switched to the next track in Firefox and Chrome.
>
>
> You may want to try disabling metadata for ogg to prevent this
> disconnection at end of each track. Airtime provides an options for this in
> the System Streams page. This is an unfortunate characteristic of OGG
> streams and some players.
>
> Oh, okay. Thanks for the tip. However, I don't want to punish users with
working ogg players. As an alternative to setting up a second ogg stream
with no metadata, is there some utility that can strip or update the ogg
stream metadata on the fly to a constant value and then send the output to
icecast? Decoding/re-encoding should not be required so such a utility
would use minimal resources.

Thanks,
-Bill

I can't believe that years later, there is still no player for Airtime streams that displays metadata. Or is there?

-Michael