Not sure if this is a bug but I’m seeing some inconsistent behavior with uploaded audio files. Yesterday I recently enabled mp3 format for attachments in our forum, and tested a drag-and-drop upload in a PM to myself. This worked as expected with a nice in-line player displaying in the post. Howev…

Ah okay interesting! Thanks — yes I have that setting enabled as I do think it makes sense to prevent anons from downloading files. But doesn’t seem like that setting should require disabling the audio player for logged in users? Actually it appears that viewing as an anon user, the native audio p…

Audio attachments don't work when "prevent anons from downloading files" is enabled

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simon December 20, 2018, 9:48pm 2

Do you have the ‘prevent anons from downloading files’ Site Setting enabled? That setting will prevent an audio player from being created.

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Audio attachments don't work when "prevent anons from downloading files" is enabled

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