Board Thread:Wikia Discussion/@comment-25730832-20160514101135/@comment-26091666-20160515025851

Dragonjet wrote: hi all, I'm just curious on what happened about the voice players. any technical details on it? I know it's resolved but it might be connected to something I've worked with the touran wiki before

Hi DJ, the issues was somewhat explained on this thread - as per noted in the OP for this thread above (I edited it accordingly).

Basically, on Music page for instance, the moment you click on the play icon which looks like "(>)" it turns around 90 degrees to "(v)". However, when wikia was sort of broken instead of the play icon turning around 90 degrees, it opens up a new window/tab on your browser with the usual media player that is determined by your browser plugins. Browser plugins by definition are special browser links such as chrome://plugins and about:plugins.

I also do not recall that when you have your mouse over the play button, the button itself did not "light up" when it was not functioning properly. In other words, it basically treated the audio link as a standard text link so to speak.

In either of the cases, it is presumed that wikia ignored MediaWiki:SoundManager2.js and treated the audio links like normal links with the exception of showing off the play icon.