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**Background** Phonos allows you to link to an audio file without providing any IPA, i.e. `<phonos file="Example.ogg" />`. This on the surface would seem to satisfy the [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Multimedia_and_Commons/Audio_links_that_play_on_click | Audio links that play on click ]] wish from the 2022 survey (T229169). The issue however, for both that wish and Phonos, is that some formats such as OGG are not natively playable on MacOS/iOS/Safari or some combination thereof. On WMF wikis, #timedmediahandler takes care of this for you. Phonos does not, so these users will get no audio. **Possible solutions** * See if we can hook into the TimedMediaHandler backend so that it does all the work for us * Query for the [[ https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Btranscodestatus | transcode status ]] of the file to see if a MP3 variant is available, and link to that instead. * Possibly include https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimedMediaHandler/ogv.js as part of Phonos * …

**Background** Phonos allows you to link to an audio file without providing any IPA, i.e. `<phonos file="Example.ogg" />`. This on the surface would seem to satisfy the [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Multimedia_and_Commons/Audio_links_that_play_on_click | Audio links that play on click ]] wish from the 2022 survey (T229169). The issue however, for both that wish and Phonos, is that some formats such as OGG are not natively playable on MacOS/iOS/Safari or some combination thereof. On WMF wikis, #timedmediahandler takes care of this for you. Phonos does not, so these users will get no audio. **Acceptance criteria** * Use the TimedMediaHandler backend to fetch MP3 derivatives, if they exist * If no MP3 derivative exists, serve the original file format instead **QA notes** * Find an existing file that does not have an MP3 extension. Using it in Phonos, it should still play an MP3, //if// that derivative exists. It usually does, but not always. * Examples of files with MP3 derivatives: ** Example.ogg ** Voiceover-mathml-example-1.wav ** Wikidata items `Q1` and `Q2` * Example of a non-MP3 file with no MP3 derivative: ** Or-ଓଡ଼ିଆ 01.oga You can check if MP3 derivatives are available by looking under the "Transcode status" section on the file page. I.e. at [[ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Or-ଓଡ଼ିଆ_01.oga | File:Or-ଓଡ଼ିଆ_01.oga ]] you'll notice there is an MP3 derivative, but it is marked as "Not ready", hence why we don't get an MP3 in Phonos. [[ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Example.ogg | Example.ogg ]] on the other hand shows the MP3 derivative is available. Using Special:MediaSearch on Commons and choosing a file format is an easy way to find more examples. The above examples may not apply to Beta.

**Background** Phonos allows you to link to an audio file without providing any IPA, i.e. `<phonos file="Example.ogg" />`. This on the surface would seem to satisfy the [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Multimedia_and_Commons/Audio_links_that_play_on_click | Audio links that play on click ]] wish from the 2022 survey (T229169). The issue however, for both that wish and Phonos, is that some formats such as OGG are not natively playable on MacOS/iOS/Safari or some combination thereof. On WMF wikis, #timedmediahandler takes care of this for you. Phonos does not, so these users will get no audio. **Possible solutions**Acceptance criteria** * Use the TimedMediaHandler backend to fetch MP3 derivatives, if they exist * If no MP3 derivative exists, serve the original file format instead * See if we can hook into the TimedMediaHandler backend so that it does all the work for us*QA notes** * Find an existing file that does not have an MP3 extension. Using it in Phonos, it should still play an MP3, //if// that derivative exists. It usually does, but not always. * Examples of files with MP3 derivatives: * Query for the [[ https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Btranscodestatus | transcode status ]] of the file to see if a MP3 variant is available, and link to that instead.* Example.ogg * Possibly include https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimedMediaHandler/ogv.js as part of Phonos** Voiceover-mathml-example-1.wav * …* Wikidata items `Q1` and `Q2` * Example of a non-MP3 file with no MP3 derivative: ** Or-ଓଡ଼ିଆ 01.oga You can check if MP3 derivatives are available by looking under the "Transcode status" section on the file page. I.e. at [[ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Or-ଓଡ଼ିଆ_01.oga | File:Or-ଓଡ଼ିଆ_01.oga ]] you'll notice there is an MP3 derivative, but it is marked as "Not ready", hence why we don't get an MP3 in Phonos. [[ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Example.ogg | Example.ogg ]] on the other hand shows the MP3 derivative is available. Using Special:MediaSearch on Commons and choosing a file format is an easy way to find more examples. The above examples may not apply to Beta.