For miyu sis , since we both have some “hearing” probs with firefox..

Yay!

I’ve finally figured out how to listen to embedded music files/video files [with or without a player function].

Firstly, I want to credit to these [very] good guides for happy me through this frustrating issue [no music when visiting embed music sites], before i begin with a summarised and concised guide from these sites.

Credits to
1. Embedded Windows Media in Firefox [link]
2. Quicktime guide for Firefox in window [link]
3. Embedded & Streaming Quicktime/Real/Windows Media Player Guide for Windows Users [link]

hopefully steps are simple enough to follow through

Type about:plugins in your firefox browser

Check that you have the following plugins
1. QuickTime Plug-in 7.0.2 [File name: npqtplugin.dll or npqtpluginX.dll (X=no.)]

• Test page to check if it’s working: Quicktime Plugin Test

2. Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library [File name: npdsplay.dll]

• Test page

and MicrosoftR DRM [File name: npdrmv2.dll and npwmsdrm.dll]

3. Mozilla ActiveX control and plugin support [File name: npmozax.dll]

• Test page [if both can play, then activex is installed]

Note that plugin 2-4 is essential for embed/stream to be functionable for Windows media player specified playing. However, windows media player will not play .mp3 automatically like IE because it is not hardcoded for mp3. Therefore, plugin 1 is essential for firefox to play embeded music files like mp3.

1. Quicktime - Standard Player or Quicktime alternative

• 2 choices here. If you dislike Quicktime, you can install Quicktime alternative. It is like a codec that enables you to have quicktime plugins even by not having quicktime.

• If disliking quicktime is due to the issue that when you click on a direct linked music file (Not embedded in the script), instead of downloading the music files, it plays it in the browser, go to this troubleshooting for disabling quicktime to play files instead of downloading. [link]

• After you have download, follow these instructions to get the settings right [taken from here]

Quicktime 6.5

• Close all instances of Firefox
• Launch Quicktime
• Go to Edit > Preferences > Quicktime Preferences
• Select “Browser Plug-in” from the Drop-down Menu
• Click “Mime Settings”
• Enable the file types you wish Quicktime to handle. Do not enable Flash.
• Click “OK”
• Select “Connection Speed” in the Drop-down Menu
• Choose the connection that best matches your current Internet connection speed
• Click OK

Quicktime Alternative <>

• Close all instances of Firefox
• Go to the Start Menu > Quicktime Alternative > Quicktime Settings
• Select “Browser Plug-in” from the Drop-down Menu
• Click “Mime Settings”
• Enable the file types you wish Quicktime to handle. Do not enable Flash.
• Click “OK”
• Select “Music” from the Drop-down menu
• Select “General Midi”*
• Select “Connection Speed” in the Drop-down Menu
• Choose the connection that best matches your current Internet connection speed
• Click OK

Quicktime 7 and Alternative 1.5

• Close all instances of Firefox
• Go to Start > Control Panel > Quicktime 7
• Go to the Audio Tab
• If using Alternative, select “General Midi” under “Music Synthesizer”
• Go to the Browser tab and click “Mime Settings”
• Enable the file types you wish Quicktime to handle. Do not enable Flash.
• Click OK
• Go to the Streaming tab
• Choose the connection that best matches your current Internet connection speed
• Click OK

* Selecting General Midi is necessary as Quicktime Alternative does not include the Quicktime Music Synthesizer.

2. Window Media Player

I believe anyone will have this. Except tat probably not updated. or troubleshooting issues that require reinstallation. If so, please read this guide for more information. [link]

3. ActiveX

Before you begin, read the following [link] if you use the Adblock Extension.

From [link],
i. The Windows Media Player plugin must be installed and working for this to work. Check that the plugin is installed and functioning correctly before proceeding: Checking Windows Media Player plugin installation.

ii.Depending on which version of Firefox you use, right-click the relevant link and save it to your desktop:

Firefox 1.0, 1.0.1, or 1.0.2: http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozactivex-ff-10.xpi
Firefox 1.0.3: http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozactivex-ff-103-2.xpi
Firefox 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, or 1.0.7: http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozactivex-ff-104.xpi

This is Adam Lock’s ActiveX Plugin for Firefox. There are no versions of the plugin that are known to work with any non-official Firefox builds. For Firefox 0.9.x and 1.0PR, see this earlier version of the guide: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=140828

iii. Open Firefox, then drag the .xpi file you just downloaded into the Firefox window.
While installing, the plugin will appear in the Extensions window. Then it will vanish - this is because even though it installs the same way, this is not an extension.

iv. When the installation is complete, restart Firefox.

1. To solve the “Stream files instead of downloading” for direct file links, do the following:

* Go to Tools -> options of your browser
* Navigate to “Downloads”
* Click on “plugins” on the bottom right
* Disable or enable the files type that you want it to download instead of streaming

For e.g. to disable direct-linked mp3 files (not embedded in the scripts of the site).

2. Specifying your script to use Window Media Player instead of Quicktime for viewing the embedded player [if you have one like mine].

To the embedded code, add in “type=”application/x-mplayer2″ to your embeded tag

3. From [link],

Letting Firefox Claim it is Internet Explorer
Some media websites bypass the problem of supporting multiple browsers by just supporting IE (and sometimes old Netscapes) and using a Browser Detection Script to detect what browser you are using. If you view the site with Firefox it will simply say you are not using a compatable browser and deny you access. A good deal of the time, Firefox (when set up correctly) can render such sites/media. You can trick such sites into letting you in by using the User Agent Switcher extension: http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=156
A browser’s User Agent specifies what the browser is, and some more information like Operating System. This extension allows you to change what the User Agent says. If you set the User Agent to Internet Explorer, Firefox will claim it is IE when asked - tricking sites that only allow Internet Explorer into letting you in.