Re: musicmadewithlinux: soundcloud music stream

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On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 09:38 +1000, Leigh Dyer wrote:
> On 18/07/12 00:22, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 16:02 +0200, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I just added a soundcloud plugin to http://linux-audio.com . I've been
> >> listening to it for a couple of hours now. Lots of good tracks on the
> >> stream.
> >>
> >> Worth checking out if you have some spare time.
> >>
> >> I'm looking into adding a bandcamp stream next.
> >
> > Thanks for the recommendation :). I prefer to listen to "free" music.
> > Regarding to bandcamp I've got some serious reservations (not of that
> > kind "Ralf overdoes it agin", but really), IIRC you need to allow
> > everything and you must have flash installed. It might be
> > better/different today, but IIRC it was like that some years ago.
> > Good music, but an odd web page.
> 
> You no longer need Flash to upload music to Bandcamp, unless you're 
> using an old version of IE -- uploads now use HTML5 features in Firefox, 
> Chrome, etc. On desktop browsers, I think you still need Flash for 
> streaming, but it uses HTML5 for streaming on mobile devices, and the 
> embedded player widgets for use on other sites also use HTML5 on desktop 
> browsers that support it.
> 
> There's one caveat with the HTML5 support -- it's only on browsers that 
> can play MP3 natively, so Chrome will use HTML5, but Firefox still 
> requires Flash. Last time I checked, Soundcloud's new HTML5 widgets 
> still use Flash on Firefox, for the same reason.
> 
> Thanks
> Leigh

Thank you :),

no IE here, but current version of Linux Firefox.

- Ralf

-- 
I wasn't aware that he died in 2005.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._L._Burnside

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