Safari plug-in powersave on Mavericks - soundcloud

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Safari plug-in powersave on Mavericks - soundcloud

Mavericks comes with a powersafe feature for Safari's plug-ins, e.g. Flash.

For most websites this works flawleslly - a flash video player doesn't load automatically.

But for Soundcloud this is a bit of a hassle.

On Soundcloud, audio-streams are offered through a "hidden" Flash player, it is not visible on your screen, so Safari can't/won't display the "click to start plug-in".

The controls (play/pause/...) are just HTML code on Soundcloud, they aren't part of the flash plug-in that offers the audio stream.

I have searched the options of Safari, and found preferences > advanced > internet plug-ins > details where you can see a list of websites that are allowed to start plug-ins automatically. Unfortunatily I haven't found a way to manually add the soundcloud website to the "These websites have plug-ins that start automatically" list.

How do I get Safari to keep not automatically start plugins on all websites, except Soundcloud?

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 16GB 256SSD w/ VMwareFusion

Posted on Mar 20, 2014 5:44 AM

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Answer 1

Niel

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Mar 23, 2014 4:54 PM in response to GeertCu

Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu, provide ~/Library/Safari/ as the path, make a copy of the PlugInOrigins.plist file inside, and edit the original in a product such as TextWrangler so that it includes an entry for Soundcloud.

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GeertCu Author

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Mar 24, 2014 4:20 AM in response to Niel

I had an entry for AOL.com in that list. Changed it to www.soundcloud.com. Saved file, rebooted, www.soundcloud.com is now in the list "start plug-ins automatically" but still no sound when on battery...

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Answer 3

Jun 1, 2014 10:24 AM in response to GeertCu

I have another problem - Soundcloud won't load at all in Safari or Chrome - only in Firefox. I actually have the same problem with Constant Contact. Any suggestions? I am using an iMac with the latest software updates. I always update when asked... Anyone???

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Answer 4

Jun 10, 2014 2:57 PM in response to GeertCu

I'm not sure if this will help so if I am misunderstanding or answering a question not asked please be gentle!! The only insight I have to add, which I am adding beause I recently had a similar problem and had to look around to fix it, is this: I got my macbook for Christmas, gift from my partner, and recently I have been trying to listen to my friends music on soundcloud. Before now I have never found a use for the website so I didn't know I had a problem. Anyway I wanted to listen to their soundcloud, and it would not play sound no matter what. It appeared to be playing but no sound would come out. I was super confused until I was told to go to safari, preferences, advanced, and un-check stop plug-ins to save power. This worked for me. If you guys are past that option and want more advanced, disregard my input. 🙂 NOW if y'all find a way to add it to the list so I can close out of the preferences for good instead of going back and forth, please update me on that when ya do!

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