Firefox not streaming music

[jez500]

Only tested on XBMC Frodo (12.3) as yet, possibly fixed in Gotham

Sound Manager 2 is used for the streaming in combination with Files.PrepareDownload to provide the media source.

Works fine in other browsers, I use Chrome so am not that fussed but if there are any Firefox fans out there who want their Chorus to stream music then I encourage you to have a look.

I found this, which might point to the problem? Issues with Firefox and mp3 support

[ghost]

FF26.0 not working with gotham nigthlies as well.

[comaide]

and with a firefox exeption...we can not use flash or something working well on firefox?

[jez500]

Flash doesn't work either, It feels like the correct headers aren't being sent with the download url provided by xbmc and Firefox just wants to download the file which prevents streaming, although I might be completely off the mark.

If anyone out there feels like testing this more outside of chorus...
Get a download url for a song from xbmc by clicking menu (3 dots) on a song, click download and grab the url from your address bar. Then play with SoundManager using that url.

[jez500]

More playing with this...
Flash does actually work (and when it does, so does seeking), however I can only get it to successfully load once in every 20 page loads. For some reason SoundManager just times out while looking for the SWF file. The future might involve looking at alternatives to SoundManager.

[shtrom]

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[shtrom]

Also fails playing Vorbis and FLAC files.