Comments on: Libsyn’s New HTML5 Player is Here!

By: Elsie

Elsie — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:16:03 +0000

Ira, we appreciate your comments very much.

I've communicated your issues to the devs. They are very much looking for feedback and this points out a lot of issues that we need to be looking at more clearly.

Thanks so much!

By: ira

ira — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:47:07 +0000

Hi.

There absolutely is a need for an audio player. The fact that this is a media player acting mostly as a video player is a problem where it's embedded on a site (ie a site page for podcasts) and users hitting that page on a phone (in this case, Android) get the video initializing full-screen.

That is totally unexpected behavior when the page should load, and then the user would hit which podcast they want to listen to.

It just seems strange, unless I am mistaken, that Libsyn is big for podcast hosting yet I can't display podcast audio properly.

I have also seen a problem in Firefox where the player sits dormant for a few minutes then starts playing. In Chrome it starts right away (actually, is there a way to NOT have it auto-start?). Is the file loading up the whole time before it plays in Firefox?

Thanks.

By: Elsie

Elsie — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 04:08:38 +0000

Just sent you an email to the email address you used to leave this comment! Just wanted to make sure that you were aware. Our apologies 🙁

By: sesho

sesho — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:29:52 +0000

Hello, I'm going on the second week of having problems with HTML5 new player. In fact, the problem is that it does not load episodes in IE9. Supposedly, Libsyn got it working in Firefox, but the next day they weren't working again, and came up with error codes. But it has never worked in IE. Every blog entry that had the player in it is now a black box. It's been about 6 days since Libsyn told me that it probably had something to do with my media files. Media files that have worked fine for my past FIVE YEARS on Libsyn. I'm starting to get the suspicion that it's somehow MY fault that the new player is broken. Very frustrating. The old player worked fine. When is someone gonna admit there is a problem with the new player???

By: Elsie

Elsie — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:41:43 +0000

Hi Donna, thanks for your input. We really appreciate you voicing your needs. We are absolutely open to feedback, in fact we ask for it all the time and wish we could get more of it!

Regarding the current player, although it's not an "audio" player per say, it does play audio. and can be used as an audio player, although, I hear you that it's not an AUDIO player proper. An audio only player would absolutely enhance our offerings a ton. (In my opinion)

To be honest not very many folks have requested an audio player proper. In our search for feedback, there have been very few requests for one.

Perhaps we should conduct a survey and see if folks really do want one, or find other ways for podcasters to get feedback back to us.

We are open and listening!

By: @DonnaPapacosta

@DonnaPapacosta — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:11:21 +0000

As a podcaster, I don't want a video player. I want an audio player. Why is this feature still missing?

By: yogeek

yogeek — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:08:21 +0000

Ryan, the embed code is still there as it's always been. Please let us know if you cannot see it!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:48:14 +0000

Is the ability for users to grab the embed code been lost? That was a useful feature and one I wish would return.

By: Elsie

Elsie — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 23:10:39 +0000

Currently there is no audio only player, the player can be used for both audio and video, but it can be configured to a smaller size.

By: @lukasavige

@lukasavige — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 23:07:14 +0000

Is there an audio only player? I don't care to have a big video player on my site. I just want to play one episode in the player.