Some MP3 files not playing in some browsers

@hansphilipbotha, Would you like to share URL to investigate further?

Hi yes ! Thanks !

Audio on this page not playing in Chrome

https://www.englishnaturally.com/2015/03/28/have-you-ever-killed-two-birds-with-one-stone/

@hansphilipbotha, Could you try to open mp3 file directly in your browser (chrome?) and comments whether it works or not? [ MP3 direct link: https://www.englishnaturally.com/IDIOMBITES/Kill%20two%20birds%20with%20one%20stone.mp3 ]

Another way, you can try ‘Compact WP Audio Player‘ plugin and check whether it works this way or not?

Yes this specific file doesn’t play with Chrome but it does play with IE…then then are some the other way

If I insatall and activate that plugin and it doesn’t work and deactivate will all my audio links still be in place ?

Thanks

As it stands, plays in Firefox 41.0.1 in Win 7 Pro using HTML5.

@hansphilipbotha, Here is my comments:

If I insatall and activate that plugin and it doesn’t work and deactivate will all my audio links still be in place ?
=> I don’t think you will lose anything by installing, activating and then deactivating the plugin. You can give it a try (if you want).

Thanks

I have tried different audio plugins but that doesn’t work.

I have found that all the audio files play fine in Firefox browser.

So this issue is definitely related to the browsers.

Howvever I still wonder if there is a bug on WordPress’ side.

Any info on this anyone ?

@hansphilipbotha ,

This isn’t a WordPress bug but it’s a browser related (Chrome?).

Like said above, if you try to play mp3 directly in the browser [ https://www.englishnaturally.com/IDIOMBITES/Kill%20two%20birds%20with%20one%20stone.mp3 ] it’s not playing, which has nothing to do with WordPress as it’s standalone mp3 file.

Ok. Thanks a lot for your insight. I’ll see if I can get more info from Google then.

@hansphilipbotha,

I appreciate you mark this thread as ‘Resolved’ as this isn’t WordPress specific. Thanks.

sure

The actual cause of this is a change to Chrome and Firefox requiring a embedded Album Artist field to have a value for MP3 files over a certain size to play.