Detecting HTML5 audio element file not found error

Question

I am trying to make a the browser display an alert if an audio element src attribute points to a non existent file, however I do not get any response if I attach the the \"

Answer 1

Getting audio errors

$('audio').addEventListener('error', function failed(e) {
   // audio playback failed - show a message saying why
   // to get the source of the audio element use $(this).src
   switch (e.target.error.code) {
     case e.target.error.MEDIA_ERR_ABORTED:
       alert('You aborted the video playback.');
       break;
     case e.target.error.MEDIA_ERR_NETWORK:
       alert('A network error caused the audio download to fail.');
       break;
     case e.target.error.MEDIA_ERR_DECODE:
       alert('The audio playback was aborted due to a corruption problem or because the video used features your browser did not support.');
       break;
     case e.target.error.MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED:
       alert('The video audio not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported.');
       break;
     default:
       alert('An unknown error occurred.');
       break;
   }
 }, true);

Quoted from How to check if HTML5 audio has reached different errors