Hi Brion,
Multimedia WMF and Community Liaisons are still hashing out the details of a thorough launch for MP3. Please don't turn MP3 upload on yet :)
See the Phabricator task below for updates. Long story short: yes we will enable MP3 but we also need an improved plan for automated copyvio detection (for reasons beyond just MP3 on Commons) and we are aiming to help the community develop that.
Thanks,
Ramsey
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From: Brion Vibber <bvibber@wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 3:10 PM
Subject: [Multimedia] MP3 update
To: Wikimedia Foundation Multimedia Team <multimedia@lists.wikimedia.org>
I'm planning to push MP3 audio output support soon, which should get audio playback working on iOS devices where the ogv.js shim doesn't load yet.
Feel free to ask, answer, or comment at
Since earlier discussion on MP3 upload was pretty positive and tools folks like Dispenser say scanning them for copyvios is not a problem, I'd like to push on enabling the upload soon too.
Both should be simple cases of switching the defaults on from off.
-- brion