Audio5js no longer playing after updating to latest Chrome 36.0.1985.125

[sethlesky]

After updating the the latest version of Chrome (36.0.1985.125) I'm getting the following error:

TypeError: Cannot read property 'pplay' of undefined
at Object.FlashAudioPlayer.play (http://localhost:9000/components/audio5js/audio5.js:433:17)
at Object.Audio5js.play (http://localhost:9000/components/audio5js/audio5.js:835:20)
at Object.Audio5js.playPause (http://localhost:9000/components/audio5js/audio5.js:850:44)
at http://localhost:9000/bower_components/angular/angular.js:10773:21
at http://localhost:9000/bower_components/angular/angular.js:18981:17
at Scope.$eval (http://localhost:9000/bower_components/angular/angular.js:12608:28)
at Scope.$apply (http://localhost:9000/bower_components/angular/angular.js:12706:23)
at HTMLSpanElement. (http://localhost:9000/bower_components/angular/angular.js:18980:21)
at HTMLSpanElement.jQuery.event.dispatch (http://localhost:9000/bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.js:4641:9)
at HTMLSpanElement.elemData.handle (http://localhost:9000/bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.js:4309:46)

No issue with latest versions of Firefox and Safari. Seems to do something with incorrectly falling back to flash instead of using HTML5 audio?

Excellent audio player, hopefully this can be figured out soon.

[zohararad]

This indeed seems like a Flash issue. However as I'm away I won't be able to look at it for at least a week. Could it be that Flash is either not enabled at all (check about:config) or there's a conflict with system-wide version of Flash?

Either way I'll try to look at it asap

[sethlesky]

System and Chrome versions are the same for both the new version and older (working) version of Chrome. Adobe Flash Player (Version: 14.0.0.145).

Should the flash fallback be used when playing audio in Chrome? I believe the previous release of Chrome used the HTML5AudioPlayer object instead of FlashAudioPlayer, which leads to think that whatever condition that determines whether HTML5 audio is available is no longer reliable.

Thanks for taking a look @zohararad

[sethlesky]

@zohararad the issue was in Chrome
canPlayType('audio/mpeg; codecs="mp3"') returns ''

Looks like it's being worked on here:
https://codereview.chromium.org/390413002/

[sethlesky]

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=393720#c10

"The 'audio/mpeg; codecs="mp3"' mimetype is not RFC 3003 compliant, but a
bunch of sites apparently use it. This change restores the behavior that
was in M35 and earlier and returns "probably" for this mimetype."

To be on the safe side maybe use 'audio/mpeg;' as the mimetype instead.

[zohararad]

@sethlesky I just merged your PR with fix for MP3 mime-type. I assume closing this issue is ok