player silently skip tracks the browser can't decode
For some people, their first encounter with funkwhale is spinning wheels. And sometimes those spinning wheels are due to codec issues.
Story
@Fieldswefound
tried playing the tracks on #funkwhale don’t get any audio, just auto-skips through and gets stuck. User-error on my side I’m sure :) any ideas?
@flavigula
I have a few ideas, actually, as this problem has surfaced before. Most of my music are stored as flacs on funkwhale. If you are using Safari to listen, sometimes it won't work. Flacs play badly with Macs / Apple in general.
https://mstdn.social/@Fieldswefound/109348533445700129
Steps to reproduce
- open Safari on Mac or any browser on iOs
- go to an album page with tracks in flac format
- pick a track to play
What happens?
Tracks are skipped one after the other.
What is expected?
Music starts playing.
Meh.
If codecs are missing, and transcoding is enabled, the server automatically transcodes to a supported format.
If transcoding is disabled, a message appears to tell the bad news to the unfortunate person, instead of silently skipping tracks.
Context
Funkwhale version(s) affected: 1.2