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Why will Safari not play MP3s embedded in my iWeb pages when Firefox can?

One would have thought that if iWeb was going to get picky over the scenarios in which it would behave correctly, it would favour Apple-centric enviroments. But this doesn't appear to be the case when building an iWeb site with embedded MP3 files.

The published site behaves perfectly when viewed in Firefox and yes, even IE's latest incarnation. Files may take a while to download but they play when the download has finished. Safari is a different story. The MP3 files embedded in some pages simply will not play when viewed with Safari.

This page in particular has never worked in Safari -

http://www.whisperycat.co.uk/version_5/sounds/Entries/2011/3/23_Promenade.html

A small blue questionmark appears instead of the 'Play' button.

Any workarounds or is it just the case that Safari and iWeb are incompatible on this fundamental point???

Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.6.7), Dual Core 2Gb RAM

Posted on May 5, 2012 6:10 AM

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Roddy

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Posted on May 6, 2012 8:59 AM

Try dragging the MP3 in from the Finder rather than iTunes if you have the original.

I think the problem may be associated with the meta data added by iTunes. The question first arose a while back when an iWeb user was loading files from iTunes, hosting them on MobileMe and having a problem with them not loading in Safari 5.

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whisperycat Author

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May 5, 2012 9:13 AM in response to Roddy

Thanks for the info Roddy. I'm still at a loss to understand why Apple would distribute Safari and iWeb as part of the same installation if Safari is unable to display and load the web pages that iWeb builds.

I read elsewhere on these forums that iWeb is destined to be dropped. In which case this problem becomes irrelevant in any case :-(

May 5, 2012 6:54 AM in response to whisperycat

Your page works as intended in Safari.

whisperycat Author

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May 5, 2012 7:11 AM in response to whisperycat

Note the blue circled question mark - this is how non-loading pages are displayed

whisperycat Author

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May 6, 2012 12:58 AM in response to Roddy

Thanks Roddy

whisperycat Author

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May 6, 2012 8:44 AM in response to Roddy

Sounds like you could be right. I now find the 'Podcast' solution doesn't work in Safari after all.

Wyodor

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May 6, 2012 3:46 PM in response to whisperycat

Here's the solution to your problem.

In iTunes select your tune.

Remove the illustration(s).

Drag the tune to iWeb.

Publish.

Your tune will play.

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