292582 - RFE: allow inline (background) music in emails

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Konstantin Svist]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

Currently, Thunderbird does not allow one to embed a music file into the HTML
source of the email, nor (as far as I could tell) can it play a music file
embedded in this manner.
User should be able to add a music file in the same manner as inline images -
and when this message is received, Thunderbird should play it back (of course,
unless the receiver has settings that say otherwise)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

I request that if this were to be allowed, that it to be an option which is
disabled by default.

Klez spread by saying it was an audio file and attempting to play it embedded in
the email.  While I doubt thunderbird is that insecure, it'd still be very
annoying.  I suppose by default it'd show a bar "This e-mail contains embeded
objects, such as movies or music.  Would you like to see/hear them?"

Comment 2

[Konstantin Svist]

(In reply to comment #1)

I agree completely.
Of course once Thunderbird will see the type of object is EMBED, it should hand
over the control to the music plugin (e.g. QuickTime) - and then that plugin is
responsible for playing it - that's what Firefox does and that seems to work okay.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Oh my word, no. Please :-)

Making Thunderbird support inline playback of voicemails (which are emails with
WAV attachments of a particular encoding and MIME type) would be a far better idea. 

Either way, you need to coordinate with Alex Fritze, who I believe also wants to
enhance the sound capabilities of the Mozilla platform.

Gerv

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

As an enhancement, the next stage is module owner evaluation; confirming.

Gerv

Comment 6

[Konstantin Svist]

any update on this?

Comment 7

[Joaquín Serna]

This is now possible.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Compose new email
2. Insert HTML
3. Insert an audio tag with a valid src.
4. Save/send the email
5. Open the email -> play.

It even supports autoplay if it's declared in the <audio> tag which can be a bit unpleasent. Some clients (like gmail's web) disable this kind of content.