Playing html5 audio in android browser

Question

I have a javascript that plays audio in the browser, using the html5 tag. It works fine in the iPhone browser, but not in Android. (Testing using

Answer 1

I cannot figure this out either. BUT, this test page created by Apple plays HTML5 audio on the Android: http://www.apple.com/html5/showcase/audio

how did apple do it?

Answer 2

I got this working on a project using trigger.io deploying to a Nexus 7 running Android Jellybean, but the audio only plays if I use absolute URLs at the moment. I'm not sure what the relative path is yet to use audio from within my project, but hopefully this will help somebody out...

(function() {

    var currentSound;
    // I have a div called "page"
    var soundcv = document.body;

    // This only works for one sound for simplicity's sake
    function playSound(sound){

        if (currentSound == null){
            var audio = document.createElement('audio');
            audio.src = sound;
            soundcv.appendChild(audio);
            currentSound = audio;
        }

        currentSound.play();
    }

    // This isn't a real audio file URL - replace it with one of your own
    playSound('http://example.com/example.mp3');
})();

Answer 3

Have you checked your audio format ?

Answer 4

The latest Android browser in FroYo does not yet support the HTML5 audio element. This is not a bug, rather a feature that has yet to be implemented. It may come in Gingerbread.

Update: The Gingerbread browser has the audio element.

Answer 5

I've been tinkering all day on this and I finally got mine to work on my old Samsung Droid browser with the yahoo webplayer:

<a href="somefolder/file.mp3"></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://webplayer.yahooapis.com/player.js"></script>

Works great puts a little arrow icon next to the text that you can click to play your mp3. Thanks Yahoo.

I forgot to mention that the audio does NOT show up in my Chrome or Firefox browser when testing this locally. Works great on my phone browser though.

Answer 6

Here is link to Google Android bug, which filed for lack of support of AUDIO tag in Android. Please, vote on it.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10546

BTW, there is work around, which let you play natively MP3 in Android 1.6 .. 2.2, like that:

<video src="test.mp3" onclick="this.play();"></video>