<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