Working example of og:audio:artist and og:audio:album

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  •  25-10-2019
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Question

Can someone identify ONE WEB PAGE where <meta property="og:audio:artist"> and <meta property="og:audio:album"> are actually working to set the Artist and Album when sharing the URL of the page?

I have been banging away at http://www.coises.com/songs/sfcarol.htm for hours, trying every permutation of order of META tags, XML tag formats (even though it’s an HTML page), etc. (Note: though I have a home-grown share button on the page, I’m talking about sharing the URL of the page in the status box on Facebook itself as the test case.)

All I can get is that all words in the title are capitalized, even though it isn’t specified that way, and the Artist and Album are always Unknown. (For another song/page, "8/9/95", even the title won’t show.) The description also doesn’t show when doing the share, though it does show in the posted story.

I tried searching, and I tried places like ReverbNation and SoundCloud, but nobody seems to use the og:audio tags. (For videos, copying the way YouTube does it appears to work perfectly, http://www.coises.com/songs/risingup.htm being an example.) If I could see just one working example, I suspect I could figure it out.

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Solution

My own song pages (e.g., http://www.coises.com/songs/floodplain.htm and most other song pages on my site) are now working examples.

It turns out the problem was simple: og:audio:artist and og:audio:album do not work unless og:audio:title is also supplied. I had assumed that would default to og:title; it seems it must be explicitly specified.

The linter still says the og:audio:{title|artist|album} tags are not allowed, but they work.

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