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I am using HTML5 audio tag to link to a WAV file, but it suddenly seems to be failing. Chrome does not seem to be able to play WAV files (MP3 works fine). I get an error message like:
Error loading: "blob:http%3A%2F%...."
Does Chrome’s audio tag support WAV? For e.g., try playing this: http://www.nch.com.au/acm/11kulaw.wav
I am on Chrome version 15.0.874
I don’t get the error in Chrome, but the file does not play. The control is visible, but is not working.
There is a bug report in Chromium project that seems to talk about the behavior:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=83323
The gist of it is that .wav can mean a bunch of things and have various encodings. The comments recommend using a plugin to handle this or downloading the file.
For the purposes of serving it on the web, I’d recommend compressing it to an MP3 and an OGG format (if you want to be nice to FOSS people) and including multiple source tags.