On Friday, 17 October 2025 13:41:29 British Summer Time Michael wrote: > On Friday, 17 October 2025 13:15:28 British Summer Time Peter Humphrey wrote:
[...] > > I'll have to scratch around for some media to play. > > https://www2.iis.fraunhofer.de/AAC/multichannel.html > > You can download any of these and see if your media player produces sound. > Note, these are multichannel samples. Unless you have surround sound > speakers some channels will be silent. Ah! Useful link - thank you. And yes, the first sample played just fine. > I find Kmix useful for adjusting audio, muting, etc. About the only media I play are through Firefox. > > > Take a look at settings under: Edit > Settings > Privacy & Security > > > > > Eh? Where is 'Edit'? > > If you right click on the top margin of the Firefox window you can enable > the Main Menu, which will show the Edit submenu. It doesn't matter though, > you can access the same with the 'hamburger' menu on the top right. > > > > then look at the settings for 'Speaker Selection' and 'Autoplay'. By > > > default the 'Speaker Selection' is empty and 'Autoplay' is set to 'Block > > > Audio' for all websites. Oh yes, I see it. I've changed a few defaults, including that Block, but Firefox still won't play sound from what they used to call Reels and Short Videos - BUT! I have it now streaming BBC radio, so it's only those reels that aren't playing sound. I have the Enhanced Tracking Protection set to Standard; I sometimes set it to Strict, but not at the moment. Curiouser and curiouser... -- Regards, Peter.
