shamichan FLAC support issues

Also flac files are somewhat broken. Scrub bar is broken (You can't move in the song like for example skip to 5 minute mark), they can't be opened in a new tab like mp3s (or any other audio/video file) and they sometimes just stop working. More people are experiencing this for some time (more then a month). It affects both Firefox and Chrome. Both windows and linux. You should be able to experience it on your own system but just as per protocol: Chromium 76, Debian

Oct 05 '19 16:10 bakape

I have noticed with flac files I have to open them in mpv, whereas they used to just play in browser.

Oct 18 '19 08:10 Chiiruno

any update on this? FLACs are still pretty broke, might be worth backporting it if it's already been fixed in v7

Nov 19 '20 11:11 lc-guy

@lc-guy Browser + version + OS This sounds like a browser issue to me. The seekability is a different matter.

Nov 19 '20 14:11 bakape

Firefox 82, Arch I only experience the seekability and new tab problem.

Nov 20 '20 01:11 lc-guy

@lc-guy

New tab problem is specific to the browser. It can't open the thing in a new tab for some reason and simply baills. Nothing I can do.

Seekability depends on the metadata in FLAC itself (not all FLACs are seekable; media players remedy it by just decoding the whole file), the browse and codecs used by the browser. I do not plan to implement FLAC decoding on the client-side. So only way to mitigate it is recompiling the browser with different codecs or switching the browser.

Dec 05 '20 14:12 bakape

I see. Thanks for researching the problem.

Dec 06 '20 16:12 lc-guy