Share a track

melodiante

Any way to share a track so that could be shown embed on a mastodon post? In the way that a peertube video can be played on the same post like this: https://social.anartist.org/@nubecielo/111336237157610804
Thanks :-)

AMoonRabbit

On albums and tracks, within the 3 dot stack menu, there's the option to embed
[upl-image-preview url=https://forum.funkwhale.audio/assets/files/2023-11-22/1700621269-857275-image.png]
Whether it will work on Mastodon posts, I am not sure. I know for my instance, html embeds do not work in Misskey.

melodiante

AMoonRabbit
Thanks. I have already tried to embed but html doesn't work as expected on Mastodon :-(

AMoonRabbit

There are changes coming to embeds I think in 1.4 release.

melodiante

AMoonRabbit Ok Thanks. I will wait till then and will try :-)

Sporiff

AMoonRabbit The changes to the embeds only target the HTML embed iframe. They just fix some bugs that affected the rendering of the widget on external pages.

The embedding of a track on Mastodon is a separate thing, I believe. Previously, you could just post a link to a specific track or album and Mastodon would render a player card.

It looks like there's an issue for this already here: https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/-/issues/2072. We must have changed something as part of the 1.3.0 rewrite that affected this. @gcrk @wvffle

melodiante

Sporiff Thank you very much. I shared a link to the album in mastodon and it generated a box with a link to this album. It is not a player embedded on the post but is better than nothing.
But adding a link to a track on a mastodont post will render or embed nothing except a simple link.
I hope will be solved ASAP :-)
Thanks for your support :-D

gcrk

The mechanism works like this: There is a meta-tag in the track page that references the embed link for this specific track. If you post this track link on mastodon, it will load the embedded player.

There is even a PR pending already to fix the meta tags: https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/-/merge_requests/2623

gcrk

Just tested this with the PR: [upl-image-preview url=https://forum.funkwhale.audio/assets/files/2023-11-27/1701076915-704047-screenshot.png]

Could be better styled, but works(tm)

melodiante

gcrk it looks fine! :-D

melodiante

Great!!! Thank you very much :-D
Actually my server is running Funkwhale 1.3.4
In which version this issue will be solved?

Sporiff

melodiante This will be updated in Funkwhale 1.4.0, which will be the next release.

melodiante

Sporiff Thanks :-D

FUji

Is this a work-around for a Mastodon bug? The imbedeed HMTL has worked fine on Pleroma.

gcrk

FUji Is this a work-around for a Mastodon bug? The imbedeed HMTL has worked fine on Pleroma.

What Funkwhale version are you using? 1.4.0 is now released which contains fixes for the embedding, so its likely its working now as expected 🙂