Has anybody successfully heard audioo on Wikimedia? (screen, Microsoft, how to)
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Has anybody figured out how to listen to audio on the amazing whiz-bang codec that Wikimedia has decided to torture us with? Which is so superior to the ten or twenty other mutually incompatible media players that my OS might have already installed.
My computer says the Xiph.org Codec is successfully installed. I still hear nothing, although the timer advances when I click play. Googling the problem, I get the Wikimedia talk page and there is just 55 subheadings of livid comments (but no answers) from people who are as pisstoff as I am, or more so, asking variations on the following question:
Why do webmasters insist on using their job as a masturbation exercise? Every time a website "improves", I picture a bunch of giggly adolescent nerds saying "Look what I just did."
I am not sure what audio files you have in mind. Perhaps you could include a link?
I you meant those:
e.g.: Category:Audio files of Germany - Wikimedia Commons
I have no problem, and can listen to them just fine...
The understanding that I am getting from Wikipedia is that all their media files are going to be exclusively collected on these Xiph files, which no existing computer in the solar system is pre-equipped to play.
ElNina, I can hear the ones on your link, but not on the one above. Which appear as a different on-screen presentation on the Wiki pages.
Edit -- but now I went back and tried yours again, and now they won't play. I take that back. Some of your German ones play, and some don't. But they all advance through the timer. I've tried all the Unexplained Sounds clips, none of them play . About half (randomly) of your German clips will play.
The understanding that I am getting from Wikipedia is that all their media files are going to be exclusively collected on these Xiph files, which no existing computer in the solar system is pre-equipped to play.
ElNina, I can hear the ones on your link, but not on the one above. Which appear as a different on-screen presentation on the Wiki pages.
Edit -- but now I went back and tried yours again, and now they won't play. I take that back. Some of your German ones play, and some don't. But they all advance through the timer. I've tried all the Unexplained Sounds clips, none of them play . About half (randomly) of your German clips will play.
I tried them all from the link you posted. ALL play just fine.
I also listened to the other sounds on the end of the article:
UVB-76, 52-Hertz whale, Numbers station.
No special software on my computer. All those sounds play on whatever my computer is equipped with.
When I click on them, they just play.
I can even hear them all on my phone.
Maybe you need to update your computer?
Did you tried it on the computers in Library?
Maybe you need a different browser?
If some files play and some not, I would suspect problems with your software. They all play on the same system, no?
Under the sound file, there is a line that says:
Problems playing this file? See media help.
When I click [help], I get:
Sound files on Wikipedia generally use the Vorbis audio format, and video files use the Theora format, both contained in an Ogg file. These are analogous to other formats used to play digital audio and video such as MP3 and MPEG. However, Microsoft Windows, iOS, and OS X do not support these formats by default, and require additional software to play them (see below).
So I have downloaded the Xyph.org software, and get no results. There are no additional help pages anywhere.
Under the sound file, there is a line that says:
Problems playing this file? See media help.
When I click [help], I get:
Sound files on Wikipedia generally use the Vorbis audio format, and video files use the Theora format, both contained in an Ogg file. These are analogous to other formats used to play digital audio and video such as MP3 and MPEG. However, Microsoft Windows, iOS, and OS X do not support these formats by default, and require additional software to play them (see below).
So I have downloaded the Xyph.org software, and get no results. There are no additional help pages anywhere.
I saw that, but I didn't need to download any additional software. My computer play the files just by clicking on them. I don't think you need those Xyph software.
Even my cheap Google phone play them just fine. I am sure, the phone is not equipped with anything special.
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