How can I force an HTML5 audio element to buffer an entire song?

Question

I\'m developing a local server that will stream a user\'s audio files so they can access them via web browsers using the HTML5 audio object. Since these files are on the user\'s

Answer 1

You could set the preload="auto" attribute. It's not guaranteed to do anything, but it's supposed to tell the user agent to buffer as much as it wants without concern for the remote end. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html#attr-media-preload