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 was having trouble on my Kindle Fire, and found one small thing which seemed to fix it.

I had mistakenly been using "audio/mp3". I'm using a player without its native controls (using HTML5/JS).