SoundCloud Widget and Flash wmode

Question

The SoundCloud HTML5 widget is embedded as an <iframe>, but it will fallback to using Flash if the browser does not support the required HTML5 components. Unfortunately, the Flash player does not have a wmode attribute set on it, and thus far I have been unable to get the fallback to set the wmode to either transparent or opaque with the code

<iframe wmode="opaque" width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" 
    src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?
    url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F42072385%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-
    awcrN&amp;color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;wmode=opaque">
</iframe>

While using the Vimeo player, setting a wmode attribute on the parent <iframe> will cause the fallback Flash to use the set wmode, and setting a GET parameter on the YouTube URL will cause the Flash player to use the set wmode. Neither of these techniques seem to work with SoundCloud. Is it possible to set the wmode for the Flash fallback while using the SoundCloud HTML5 player, or should I just write feature detection to handle this myself?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, this option is not supported in the Flash widget at the moment.

Answer 2

you cannot set wmode on <iframe> tag. the flash fallback will not replace iframe with flash object, but it just uses flash as audio rendering engine. to get transparent iframe, try <iframe ... ALLOWTRANSPARENCY="true"></iframe>