Music on new website does not play on IE7

[Brian Stempin]

Quite some time ago, it was brought to my attention that the following page did not work correctly on IE: ​http://wildfiregames.com/wordpress/media/music/. It turns out that Windows needs the Ogg Vorbis codec installed in order for IE/WMP to play the music. Instructions here: ​http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowspro-audiodevelopment/thread/439dbc92-fdc7-4744-9e5b-c68fa8aaad87. I'll try it when I get some free time. We should auto-detect IE and prompt them with instructions of some sort.

[fcxSanya]

This page can contain some useful info about ogg files: ​http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_help_%28Ogg%29 . As far as I understand it will not work in Safari out of box too.

[Philip Taylor]

The page is using

<audio controls preload="none">
<source src="http://www.wildfiregames.com/users/music/embed/menu_track.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs=vorbis">
<source src="http://www.wildfiregames.com/users/music/embed/menu_track.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
</audio>

which ought to work automatically in IE9 and in other browsers (they'll pick the .ogg or .mp3 depending on what they support; all support one or the other). The browser stats seem to indicate IE (all versions) is only about 10% of visitors (and only 40% are on Windows at all), so it's probably not worth worrying much about IE6/7/8 users.

[Brian Stempin]

We will re-evaluate how we do music on the new website. Bandcamp integration is underway. If that doesn't solve our problem, then we will see if some WP plugin can help us.