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HTML HTML Video and Audio Media Basics The Audio Element

Posted by Nick Evershed
Nick Evershed
6,429 Points

Audio not playing

Im confused why the audio isn't playing

2 Answers

Jan Oberreiter
Jan Oberreiter
78,020 Points
Jan Oberreiter
Jan Oberreiter
78,020 Points

Nick changes his HTML from bridge.mp4 to bridge-audio.mp3 and you need to change the type from video/mp.4 to audio/mp3 … maybe this is the reason … if you wrote a bit more about the problem … would be good, regards, Jan.

Katiuska Alicea de Leon
Katiuska Alicea de Leon
10,341 Points
Katiuska Alicea de Leon
Katiuska Alicea de Leon
10,341 Points

The same thing happened to me. What I did was I added the alternate source, the .ogg file and it worked!