[GRLUG] audio tags

Thu Nov 17 19:28:14 EST 2011

A little more.  Here's a simple HTML
file:

<html>
<body>
Play <a href="pomp_n_circumstance_1.ogg"> Pomp and Circumstance </a>
</body>
</html>

If I bring this up within the

Chrome browser, in a system running

Kubuntu 11.10, "Pomp and Circumsance"

is displayed, and when I left click on

that, the piece plays.  It seems that

just about anywhere an ogg file is

encountered, it can be play - something

seems built in to Chrome to do this.

Not so with mp3.  I'd heard there were

legal issues with the mp3 format.  Might

this be connected, in the sense that mp3

is not also built in?  And notice that no

reference to html5 appears.

Anyone care to expound on this?

   -- Bob

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_audio.asp
>
>
> I put the sample code from the link above
> for using audio tags in to an html5 file,  say xx.html5,
> opened <!DOCTYPE html5> and <body>, and closed
> appropriately, and put an mp3 file in the same
> directory.  I then open the file using the Chrome
> browser.  A start button appeared, but when I click
> on it, nothing happens.
>
> Suggestions?  Maybe I need a Chrome auxiliary
> package that I don't have?
>

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