Help:Players/Compare table
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| Streams original file quality for everyone |
Explorer "HQ audio" filter 3) | Offers download | Direct skipping 1) | Player loads | Player URL is Toolkit suitable | Nice features | Summary | |
| SoundCloud | no free: 128 kbps mp3 SoundCloud Go+: ~256 kbps aac |
no | yes (fast) (if enabled by uploader) |
yes | fast | yes | Widely spread, fast, community comments. But files (and their comments) are deleted too often for different reasons. Uploading more than a few hours of music gets expensive. Players from non premium accounts have annoying overlays when you pause. | |
| Apple Podcasts |
yes | yes | no | yes (if fast internet connection) |
slowly | yes | Buttons to skip back 15s and skip forward 30s. | Streams the original file that is used for the actual podcast (and download). In many cases 320 kbps mp3. On longer playbacks or pauses the control elements in the players disappear after returning to the browser tab. |
| Direct Players | yes | yes | yes (right-click options depend on the browser) |
yes (if fast internet connection) |
fast | yes | The HTML5 player is stable and loads fast. | |
| Internet Archive |
yes (depends on user upload) |
yes | yes (slow) (right-click options depend on the browser) |
no (slow buffering) |
slowly (slow buffering to start playback) |
To be tested. | The service should be used much more because uploaded files (by the respective copyright owners) are hosted forever. | |
| PodOmatic | yes | yes | not on embedded player (hidden on website) | yes | slowly | To be tested. | Nice player if it was faster, but the player has no download button. The download link is hidden on the bottom of the page. | |
| Mixcloud | no (~64 kbps m4a) |
no | no | no back skipping | fast | yes | Files get less deleted than on Soundcloud or YouTube. | Low audio quality, no downloads. Uploads on basic tier are limited to 10, unlimited uploads as a pro user (but only ~208 kbps "HQ"). |
| hearthis.at | no (192 kbps mp3)* (see Summary for Premium Users) |
no | yes | yes | fast | yes | Reduced stylish player and good sound. Source files are transcoded to 192kbps mp3. Uploads limited on 400 MB per week. Premium users can upload unlimited and define the bitrate (up to 320 kpbs for embedding, uncompressed upload quality on website). | |
| YouTube |
no | no | yes | no | fast | yes | Unlimited uploads but copyright strikes. | |
| Spotify Playlists | no free: ~128 kbps aac premium: ~256 kbps aac |
no | no | yes | fast | To be tested. | Great sound quality and fast skipping. Only 30 second previews in Safari and on iOS tho. | |
| Spotify Podcasts | no (96 kbps mp3) |
no | no | yes | fast | To be tested. | Low sound quality, fast skipping and no download. |
| 1) | Direct skipping ("HTTP Pseudo-Streaming") = Jumping into any position of the track bar without waiting for the stream file to download into the browser's cache. |
| 2) | HTML5 players are more user friendly and stable than evil flash players. Less Flash = less crash. "HTML5 ready": Open source browsers like Firefox can't play mp3 in HTML5 by default. That means that the HTML5 player itself is HTML5 and no flash, but for streaming the mp3 the player uses Flash in the background. The solution would be that player websites encode uploaded mp3 files to free formats such as OGG Vorbis for embedded player streaming. |
| 3) | On MixesDB:Explorer/Mixes you can filter for only these players ("Players" section > "Show only" > "HQ audio"). |
