A little more. Here's a simple HTML<div>file:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">
<html>
<body>
Play <a href="pomp_n_circumstance_1.ogg"> Pomp and Circumstance </a>
</body>
</html></pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">If I bring this up within the</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Chrome browser, in a system running</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">
Kubuntu 11.10, "Pomp and Circumsance"</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">is displayed, and when I left click on</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">that, the piece plays. It seems that </pre>
<pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">just about anywhere an ogg file is </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">encountered, it can be play - something</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">
seems built in to Chrome to do this.</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br></pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Not so with mp3. I'd heard there were</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">
legal issues with the mp3 format. Might</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">this be connected, in the sense that mp3</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">is not also built in? And notice that no</pre>
<pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">reference to html5 appears.</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br></pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">
Anyone care to expound on this?</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br></pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "> -- Bob</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">
<br></pre></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Bob Kline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<span><a href="http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_audio.asp" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_audio.asp</a><div>
<br></div><div><br></div><div>I put the sample code from the link above </div><div>for using audio tags in to an html5 file, say xx.html5, </div><div>opened <!DOCTYPE html5> and <body>, and closed</div><div>
appropriately, and put an mp3 file in the same </div>
<div>directory. I then open the file using the Chrome</div><div>browser. A start button appeared, but when I click</div><div>on it, nothing happens.</div><div><br></div><div>Suggestions? Maybe I need a Chrome auxiliary </div>
<div>package that I don't have?</div></span>
</blockquote></div><br></div>
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