{"id":2551,"date":"2013-09-08T01:07:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T07:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2013-09-08T01:07:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T07:07:08","slug":"solution-firefox-audio-issue-mp3-slow-or-cracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/08\/solution-firefox-audio-issue-mp3-slow-or-cracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Solution: Firefox Audio Issue MP3 Slow or Cracking"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/forums.mozillazine.org\/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2542145<\/a><\/p>\n

Wow, it’s all the way back in Firefox version 15.<\/p>\n

NOTE: THIS SEEMS TO ONLY AFFECT WINDOWS VISTA SYSTEMS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyway, if you’re trying to use HTML5 audio<\/code> tag to play MP3 files, you might notice Firefox being a little lagging to play it. According to the forum in the link above, you need to manually add an entry into Firefox’s about:config<\/code> registry.<\/p>\n

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  1. In the Firefox URL, type in about:config.<\/li>\n
  2. Search for media.use_cubeb<\/li>\n
  3. If media.use_cubeb doesn’t exist, right-click and add a new BOOLEAN entry<\/li>\n
  4. Set this new entry to FALSE<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now restart Firefox and you might notice a subtle improvement playing MP3 with audio tag. Me, personally, it’s not much of an improvement, but it still plays as long as your MP3 is 128Kbps and 44KHz.<\/p>\n

    Hope this helps.<\/p>\n\n

    UPDATE: Sept. 15, 2013<\/p>\n

    http:\/\/goldfirestudios.com\/blog\/104\/howler.js-Modern-Web-Audio-Javascript-Library<\/a><\/p>\n

    I found an unbelievable solution called Howler.js. It’s an open-source script from an indie game developer. I’ve tested it in Firefox, Chrome, and IE9 and it works! Note, though, it only works for HTML5 based browsers.<\/p>\n

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    http:\/\/forums.mozillazine.org\/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2542145 Wow, it’s all the way back in Firefox version 15. NOTE: THIS SEEMS TO ONLY AFFECT WINDOWS VISTA SYSTEMS. Anyway, if you’re trying to use HTML5 audio tag to play MP3 files, you might notice Firefox being a little lagging to play it. According to the forum in the link above,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[69,205,607,963,972,1237,1455,1466,1710,1772,2357,2393],"class_list":["post-2551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-aboutconfig","tag-audio","tag-cracking","tag-firefox","tag-fix","tag-howto","tag-lag","tag-latent","tag-mp3","tag-noise","tag-slow","tag-solution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}