Fighting with audio player again

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Mon Oct 7 14:27:48 EDT 2013


On 10/7/13 1:06 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> LiveCode uses a very old and long-since-deprecated set of APIs for
> working with native media playback on Windows.  Until LC is updated to
> use newer APIs, whether the native Win player app can play a file is not
> a reliable test of whether LC can also play it.

I probably need to be more specific. LiveCode will play the remote mp3 
okay if it uses a "normal" URL -- that is, a standard URL like:

  http://www.domain.com/file.mp3

These URLs are on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and so they are coming from 
a distributed server system. I can't imagine why that would make any 
difference but it seems to. The URL is of the form:

  http://abcdefghijklmn01.cloudfront.net/file.mp3

It's the same file. The only difference is the distributed server URL. 
IE plays it, LiveCode won't.

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