Title: Chrome buffering
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Chrome buffering

 *  Resolved [nutman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nutman/)
 * (@nutman)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chrome-buffering/)
 * Hi,
    I posted about this in the comments of your plugin page on your personal
   website. The Mp3s were cutting out in chrome. I believe this has now been fixed
   by moving the site to a different server. The issue was caused by chrome / apache
   problems apparently. My web host sorted it out for me. If you’re interested this
   source holds a lot of info on the matter:
 * [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10840260/chrome-wont-play-mp3-files](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10840260/chrome-wont-play-mp3-files)
 * Anyway. There is still one slight issue which could well be a chrome issue rather
   than a plugin issue, but for the benefit of anyone else having similar issues
   I’ll outline it here anyway:
 * When you play a song on any other browser, the buffer bar loads up to the end
   pretty quickly, however, on chrome it only buffers the first 2/3 MBs and then
   very slowly buffers the rest. You can force the buffer to load quicker if you
   click the the furthest point on it, but if the user want to skip to near the 
   end of the track, it’d be better if the buffer bar just fully loaded straight
   away like the other browsers. Interestingly, if you load the mp3 directly in 
   chrome a similar thing happens: The buffer bar doesn’t show any progress (even
   though it plays) until you skip ahead. Therefore I’d say this is probably a chrome
   issue. However, if you could build in an option to skip ahead of the buffer bar
   so the track just loads again from that further point, that would resolve this
   issue I think.
 * Site in question: [http://byronstreetsocial.com/music](http://byronstreetsocial.com/music)
 * Thanks
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/se-html5-album-audio-player/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/se-html5-album-audio-player/)

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 *  Plugin Author [sedevelops](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sedevelops/)
 * (@sedevelops)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/chrome-buffering/#post-3986669)
 * Nutman!!!
 * Thank you for this detailed feedback. I had a feeling the problem was not rooted
   in the plugin.
 * Using this info, ill try to see if we can trick chrome into a fuller/faster buffering
   to help people who run into this host+chrome issue.
 * Thanks for looking into this and sharing your findings.

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