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If this doesn't work for anyone else, note that beatbar relies on soundcloud, and thus flash. I had flash blocked so was getting a javacript error because beatbar was undefined, enabled flash and it worked.

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It uses soundManager for cross browser audio handling. It first tries with flash and fallbacks to html5 if flash is not available. Firefox with flash disabled wouldn't support mp3, and thus won't be able to play it. I am using SoundCloud api only to fetch streams.

Hmm, that's odd, I'm using Chrome 19.01 and have no other plugins running asides FlashBlock. Once I disabled flash block everything ran fine. Does this version of Chrome not support the HTML5 fallback?

Here's the Js error:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'init' of undefined /beatbar/:75 (anonymous function) /beatbar/:75 f.event.dispatch jquery.min.js:3 f.event.add.h.handle.i

I'm using Chrome 20.0.1116.0 (canary) with the plugins blocked by default (play on click) and I'm getting the same error. Also the usual 'run all plugins on this page' option is not there.

I think soundManager requires some special handling for flashblock cases. I didn't test with flashblock on. Thanks for reporting the issue.

It doesn't seem to work in Safari with click2flash, either. Possibly because click2flash doesn't actually disable flash, it just requires a click -- but there's nothing to click on.

http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/demo/flash...

HTML5 fallback seems to work fine on Safari iPad

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