Extra audio support
Google Reader, Netvibes and Feedly seem to be able to play all of my mp3 podcast feeds perfectly in Firefox.
Theoldreader seems to do nothing when i press play.
Having emailed support they say it's because Firefox doesn't support mp3 files (which I find odd as the other three players seem to cope fine).
I propose that theoldreader add an extra case so that it uses the existing <audio> html tag for other browsers but embeds the audio in the same way Google etc. do for Firefox users.
Rob
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David Dykes
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And I've just set up a feedly account, where I can play audio files without problem both in Chrome and in Android. I'm welcome to come back to TOR, b/c I prefer the feel of it, but TOR should really start to fix this issue instead of dismissing it as a 'problem with Chrome'
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David Dykes
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I wanted to return to this. If I refresh the page then podcasts load okay, or I can click 'view attached file' (then close TOR) and have the audio play fine. This is NOT a problem with Chrome; TOR is the only website where this issue occurs. Now, installing gReader app on my Android device, I find that using TOR is completely useless as the fact that TOR doesn't fetch podcast data means gReader is also unable to play them. Near all my subscriptions are podcasts--I've been willing to put up with this so far because a couple extra clicks isn't so bad and I had faith the TOR team would get to fixing this issue, but now there's very little point to using TOR if it can't play audio files in-page.
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Rob
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I too cannot get it to work in Chrome, when I was originally told this should only be an issue for Firefox.
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vladislav saling
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I have the same issue in Opera (and Chrome). 60% of my RSS channels are podcasts :/
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timmib
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I would like to suggest that OldReader program an 'alternate' for listening to podcasts. I gather from snooping around that java might be the best but flash does certainly work. There are a great number of folk who do not use Sifari and who won't use Chrome.
fwiw
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David
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I seem to be having this same problem with Chrome, which for me at least defeats the point of having a reader, as I mostly use it to keep a track of podcasts.
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Rob
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Thanks for the reply Dan. Hopefully, the developers will see your proposed solution to my issue and deem it worth working on.
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Dan Jones
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They would have to implement a Flash player for Firefox. That's how other sites deal with it. Wouldn't be that hard, though.