Tag: media

  • De-clouding: Music

    2025-09-05

    I’m going through a phase of figuring out what I can get out of the cloud and “own”. Particularly with regard to streaming services. I’ve never paid for Spotify. But I’ve had iTunes Match so that I can take all of the weird, not-on-streaming music that I have (I wrote about this back in 2013!!!!), […]

  • Skirting the iOS/Safari audio auto-play policy for UI sound effects

    2019-01-07

    In some cases involving asynchronous operations, Safari's auto-playing media policies seem to prevent playing sounds, when playing them should be OK and when other browsers are fine with playing them. Here's a dive into it with example code and a workaround!