<audio> element not working at all in Safari

Question

I\'m trying to add music to a virtual tour application I\'m writing in JS and jQuery and so far my code, shown below, works great in Chrome, FF, IE9, and Opera. But in Safari 5

Answer 1

In HTML5 video on Safari I had an issue with this where I had to "load" (which, I think, either starts the buffer or loads the whole thing) before I set it to play. This seemed to actually make things work in a few webkit browsers. So something like:

var a = new Audio("file.mp3");
a.load();
a.play();

Worth a try

Answer 2

So the problem turned out to be with QuickTime. I guess I must of deleted it off of my machine awhile back because I didn't think I needed it. After I re-installed QuickTime, Safari plays music using the audio tag with no problem. Autoplay even works too.

Kinda funny how the champion of native HTML5 audio/video support, doesn't support HTML5 audio/video without a plugin...