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Archive Previews
Posted: October 5th, 2023, 7:25 am
by InTheDesert
This is not a librivox thing, but has anyone else noticed that IA is not letting you preview longer texts in their viewer any more?
It won't let me preview this one for example, only download.
https://archive.org/details/americanstatetr04howagoog/page/150/mode/2up
Makes direct links for readers almost obselete...
Re: Archive Previews
Posted: October 5th, 2023, 7:33 am
by Rapunzelina
We've noticed a few weird things happening with the preview of files on archive.org. At the minute we think they are working on something at archive.org until it stabilises.
What browser are you using, in case it makes a difference in troubleshooting
Re: Archive Previews
Posted: October 5th, 2023, 7:43 am
by InTheDesert
Rapunzelina wrote: ↑October 5th, 2023, 7:33 am
We've noticed a few weird things happening with the preview of files on archive.org. At the minute we think they are working on something at archive.org until it stabilises.
What browser are you using, in case it makes a difference in troubleshooting
That would be good news if it were only temporary...
I have it happen in Chrome and Edge.
The message says:
Code: Select all
The file you have selected is large (22MB).
Do you wish to download and view it?
Re: Archive Previews
Posted: October 5th, 2023, 7:51 am
by TriciaG
They're definitely messing with the viewer. (For example, our audio projects that have cover art are showing the PDF of the artwork rather than the MP3 player.) Hopefully they'll iron out all these wrinkles soon!
Re: Archive Previews
Posted: October 5th, 2023, 12:05 pm
by lorda
The link from the first post work for me.
Re: Archive Previews
Posted: October 5th, 2023, 12:10 pm
by redrun
Yup, that clinches it: temporary issue, and we're back to seeing the previews now.
Re: Archive Previews
Posted: October 5th, 2023, 5:59 pm
by InTheDesert
Yep, it's back for me too. Great news!
Re: Archive Previews
Posted: October 6th, 2023, 3:48 am
by lightcrystal
It's not back for me. I was going to mention this myself. I get the cover art where the audio previews/players used to be.
Ubuntu Studio Linux OS 22.04.
Browser: Firefox 117.0.1
Brave search engine if that matters.
Re: Archive Previews
Posted: October 6th, 2023, 4:32 am
by TriciaG
Yes, the previews are back for texts/books, but our audios are still messed up. We emailed them about it yesterday.
Re: Archive Previews
Posted: October 6th, 2023, 12:21 pm
by TriciaG
It appears the LV audio pages at IA are back to normal.
