A stupid Chrome bug
Aug 25th, 2025 - scudoToday I was testing the site under Ungoogled-Chromium to verify that now the page scales properly on mobile devices - since Firefox/Gecko has no such feature for web development - when the music page suddenly stopped working properly; some songs would immediately stop playing.
After much searching, I ended up looking at Chrome's logs (through
chrome://media-internals/); there I found that the demux process was failing with a "data source error":
The culprit MP3 files were all encoded using
mp3float, since it's what FL Studio 21 uses; after re-encoding the files with FFMpeg to use
libmp3lame, everything worked.
Imagine hitting an edge case like this again; a specific version of a specific MP3 encoding library of a specific DAW caused an error with a specific version of Chrome's FFMpeg audio demuxer. Not bad!
