FakePath issue in Chrome browser

Question

I am making a browser based audio player. So for making a playlist from the local directory I am using :

Answer 1

This is a security feature, by design. You should not be able to read the original file path of a file input into a browser form. File input is for reading file contents only, not metadata like path on the user's file system.

The good news is that you don't need the original file path. You can use FileReader's readAsDataURL to convert the file contents into a base64-encoded data URL and use that as the audio src. To read from #myUploadInput and output through #myAudioElement (also available as a working fiddle):

var reader = new FileReader();

reader.onload = function (event) {
    document.getElementById("myAudioElement").src = event.target.result;
};

reader.readAsDataURL(document.getElementById("myUploadInput").files[0]);