MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED html5 audio woes

Question

I am working on an html5 audio player and everything is working fine when I server the .ogg file from the same host as the html page. When I put the ogg file in my cdn it fa

Answer 1

The problem is the mime type you are serving the audio file with. It needs to be 'audio/ogg', 'application/ogg' or 'video/ogg' for Firefox to play it. Firefox doesn't do any form of 'content sniffing' to work out what format the file is in - it relies entirely on the mime type.