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walleofsound on "MP3 has to load before playing?"

walleofsound — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:11:47 +0000

Shrunk the files, works a bit better. Thanks

walleofsound on "MP3 has to load before playing?"

walleofsound — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:58:22 +0000

I've also had others test with over a minute before music plays.

walleofsound on "MP3 has to load before playing?"

walleofsound — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:56:07 +0000

Hmm, I'll try a few things, but if definitely isn't a quick load for me on any of my test devices. Thanks

ckelley on "MP3 has to load before playing?"

ckelley — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:54:07 +0000

Hello,

If you actually turn on dev tools and look at the loads, it actually does "stream' it just takes a second for a initial load which using a caching plugin will help speed things up(the whole site), as for a few minutes it only took a few seconds if that to load for me. If you want to check your overall page speed I suggest using some web tool

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/ & http://www.webpagetest.org/

-Chris K

walleofsound on "MP3 has to load before playing?"

walleofsound — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:21:38 +0000

I've read a handful of posts here about slow music load. I noticed that the track has to fully download before play starts. I also read that you suggest using a caching plugin... but how would that solve anything related to downloading a track? Caching is just for dynamic pages/posts is it not?

I love the idea of having the music right there on the page, but it's a little silly to make the end-user wait until the track has downloaded before it plays. Is there no way to do progressive download+playback?

Site: http://dev.tannerwalle.com/

Problem Description: Click on the "Favor" track, sit and wait a few minutes, music starts.

Tested on: IE8, IE9, Firefox 12, iPad, iPod, iPhone