HTML5 audio blob would not play on Android
Amir Gonnen via StackOverflow
I'm serving an audio file (WAV file that contains a short uncompressed PCM) from my GAE app using BlobStore.
On a click event, I set audio.src and call audio.play().
Now here is the weird part:
- When working locally - it plays well on both IOS and Android.
- After deploying to GAE, it plays well on IOS - but not on Android!
No error is shown - it just plays nothing. As far as I can tell from GAE logs, the audio file is served in all cases. In case of Android I can see a requests from "Player/LG Player 1.0 for Android 4.4.2 (stagefright alternative)".
Any idea what's going on, or how to debug this?
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Stuart Langley via StackOverflow
Most likely this is due to the chunked response when serving a blob.
Here is an issue tracker item about audio files not playing correctly in some browsers.
Here is a test web site I put together while back that illustrates the problem.
As for workarounds - You can put the file on cloud storage and then play it from there, as long as you're not concerned about people hotlinking the file.
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