Won't play audio file
At site yourdailygerman.com, Firefox will not play the audio for word of the day 'arm' (scroll down the page a little).
The audio does play in Edge and Chrome.
Other audio files work in Firefox. I've run the HTML5 audio test suite without error. I've cleared the cookies for yourdailygerman.com.
I see no error messages. I'd appreciate if anyone can verify this file works in Firefox and/or suggest fixes.
(There are 2 warnings in extensions that "Cisco H264" and Wildvine Content Decryption" will be installed.
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If I right-click the link in the Network Monitor and open the link in new tab then it plays properly with the full url (i.e. ?_=1 appended). This also works if I click edit and resend for this request (no 403 error and the partial file is send). Only with the play button it doesn't work for some reason.
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Wie gets, Mike!
While I'm no coding expert, I was able to manipulate the URL of the Play button to play the embedded mp3. I believe a potential source of the problem has to do with the way the content is embeded within the site. (to get the link, right click/view info) For example:
Before: https://yourdailygerman.com/wp-content/uploads/audios/questions-1/question-1-wohin-2-bus.mp3?_=14 After: https://yourdailygerman.com/wp-content/uploads/audios/questions-1/question-1-wohin-2-bus.mp3
The second instance does play the content. Perhaps someone with a better understanding will see this post and add more insight.
For now, keep using a different browser for this website till it can be figured out. I hope this helps a bit.
I see a 403 forbidden response in the Web Console and Network Monitor.
GEThttps://yourdailygerman.com/wp-content/uploads/audios/arm-audio/arm-0.mp3?_=1 [HTTP/2.0 403 Forbidden 124ms]
HTTP load failed with status 403. Load of media resource https://yourdailygerman.com/wp-content/uploads/audios/arm-audio/arm-0.mp3?_=1 failed.
I don't know what this GET parameter (?_=1) is supposed to do.
Thanks and danke. I'll let the site owner know the link is not playing in current Firefox.
@cor-el The first, GEThttps does play in Firefox for me. The second, https does not play for me; it opens a new tab, but does not play.
@calebrye Danke. Both of the links you gave work in my Firefox.
Since my initial post, I borrowed a laptop with WIn 10, installed Firefox 67.02, and the link failed to play on the laptop.
BTW, I'm using Firefox 67.0.2. The page I've been studying is: https://yourdailygerman.com/arm-german-poor-meaning/.
Gekozen oplossing
If I right-click the link in the Network Monitor and open the link in new tab then it plays properly with the full url (i.e. ?_=1 appended). This also works if I click edit and resend for this request (no 403 error and the partial file is send). Only with the play button it doesn't work for some reason.