Music on Insomnia

[icycalm]

Can you guys help me troubleshoot this page for music functionality:

http://culture.vg/archive/series/serious-sam.html

The track should begin playing immediately the page has loaded. I have tested this in Chrome and it works. In Firefox, it doesn't -- and I downloaded the latest version for this reason. In Safari, Opera and Explorer I have no idea.

Please note that I am only interested in getting this to work with the latest versions of each browser, so if you have older versions update them before you report your results.

The other question is whether it's more elegant to have the track endlessly loop over (as now), or to simply play once and stop. Let me know what you think about that too.

[immersedreality]

It seems to work fine in Safari 6.0. I think having it loop endlessly is fine, but an unobtrusive pause/play toggle couldn't hurt.

One thing you may want to consider is having the links to the various reviews open up new tabs in the browser as opposed to leaving the archive page. That way the song will continue to play from the loaded archive page as you read the reviews.

[shubn]

Firefox apparently doesn't support MP3, and neither does Opera. And even though they do support OGG, IE and Safari don't. What you could do is add the song as an OGG file, then write your audio tag like this, and the browser should choose which one it can/wants to play:

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<audio id="audio1" loop="loop" autoplay="autoplay" autobuffer="">
   <source src="/wimpy/Serious Sam 3: BFE (2011, PC) - Hero - icy's pick.mp3" type='audio/mpeg; codecs="mp3"'>
   <source src="/wimpy/Serious Sam 3: BFE (2011, PC) - Hero - icy's pick.ogg" type='audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"'>
</audio>

Or you could embed a small flash player like dewplayer or whatever, those play MP3 files fine.

Letting it loop is fine, but I'm more concerned with the fact that it starts playing automatically when the page loads, and that there's no way to stop or mute it. Whenever I encounter a page like this I have to go through adblock to block the file manually.

p.s. The picture links to thatgamecompany's website.

[ingolfr]

I'm running Chrome and the song plays automatically.

[El Chaos]

Works alright on Internet Explorer 9.0.9.

[SriK]

Seems to work fine for me with Internet Explorer 9.0.9 as well (and Firefox 15.0.1). Looping would be good, but personally I'd prefer to have something like this as optional (maybe a Flash player below the picture with the title of the song and pause/play controls, similar to how the Insomnia Mix page works?) rather than autoplay as soon as the page starts without any warning or way to stop it.