Studio1031,

Thanks for the info on bitrates. That might be part of the problem but there has got to be more to it than that.

For a brief period sunday morning, after uploading the so called "add_mpg_mp3_files_zaudio.diff"  fix, I was able to upload mp3's that worked. I uploaded different mp3 files and they all worked. When I woke up later that same morning, they stopped working.

That this is still an issue for some people is just ridiculous!

I have found it to work consistently with the bitrates above.

My problem with it using QuickTime player and only playing five seconds of audio... well, I found that Custom_Index_Widgets was using it's own settings and when I copied the default->file->specialcontent folder into the custom_index_widgets folder it replaced the QT player with the flash player and works great so far.  Oh yeah, did an upgrade.php as well before testing.

Don,m

Which browser are you using? For some reason, Firefox BLOWS CHUNKS when it comes to ELGG recognizing and playing mp3 files!

i just did a fresh elgg install on a new Arvixe hosting account, and ran into the "firefox uses a default player instead of the flash player" issue.. the version that Arvixe has on their server places the plugins in a non-factory order.. i dropped the player to the bottom of the list and everything went back to normal.

i'm not sure if that helps, but it worked for me :)