With <audio> tag, trying to display iTunes previews, doesn't work: about mediaelement

[leehinde]

(I also tried playing with the 'type' attribute with no luck - with/with-out, mp4, m4a)

[johndyer]

Lee,
I'm guessing that's not a type that Safari supports natively, and I don't know that Flash or Silverlight will play it either. You could try adding it under the mediaelement.js types and see if Flash can play it.

[leehinde]

Hi John;

I'll look at the types in mediaelement.js.

The file format works fine natively in Safari. I was using Safari as the baseline because it does work there. What I'm needing, ultimately, is to have it work everywhere else. Hopefully adding it to the mediatypes array does the trick. I'll keep you posted.

Thanks for the response.

• Lee

[leehinde]

John; I apologize, it does work, sort of, in Safari, without adding the specific type to mediaTypes.

In the page I'm displaying a list of these 30 second samples. A working control is displayed in the first item in the list and non-working controls are displayed in the rest. When I start playing the first sample, all of the samples in the page are played concurrently, not just the single sample you'd expect.

My call to invoke the plugin is $(document).ready(function(){ $("audio").mediaelementplayer()};

here's a screen shot:

http://www.hinde.net/mediaplayer.png

This is all fyi; I appreciate your efforts. This isn't a blocker in my project.

[johndyer]

I added audio/mp4 and audio/m4a to the list of supported types and it seemed to work well in both Silverlight and Flash. Give it a shot and let me know how it goes.