
m4a), which is supported natively in Internet Explorer, Safari, and Chrome, and supported by the OS in Firefox and Opera. Most AAC files with finite length are wrapped in an MPEG-4 container (.mp4. Google has so far provided support for all common formats.
#Firefox html5 audio free#
Mozilla and Opera support the free and open, royalty-free Vorbis format in Ogg and WebM containers, and criticize the patent-encumbered nature of MP3 and AAC, which are guaranteed to be “non-free”. In 2007, the recommendation to use Vorbis was retracted from the specification by the W3C together with that to use Ogg Theora, citing the lack of a format accepted by all the major browser vendors.Īpple and Microsoft support the ISO/ IEC- defined formats AAC and the older MP3. The adoption of HTML5 audio, as with HTML5 video, has become polarized between proponents of free and patent-encumbered formats. Your user agent does not support the HTML5 Audio element.

Represents the default state of the audio stream, potentially overriding user preferences. muted = "muted" or "" (empty string) or empty.Instructs the User-Agent to link multiple videos and/or audio streams together. Instructs the User-Agent to seek back to the start of the audio stream upon reaching the end. loop = "loop" or "" (empty string) or empty.Instructs the User-Agent to expose a user interface for controlling playback of the audio stream. controls = "controls" or "" (empty string) or empty."auto": Hints to the User-Agent that optimistically downloading the entire audio stream is considered desirable."metadata": Hints to the User-Agent that the user is not expected to need the audio stream, but that fetching its metadata (duration and so on) is desirable."none": Hints to the User-Agent that the user is not expected to need the audio stream, or that minimizing unnecessary traffic is desirable.Represents a hint to the User-Agent about whether optimistic downloading of the audio stream itself or its metadata is considered worthwhile. preload = "none" or "metadata" or "auto" or "" (empty string) or empty.Instructs the User-Agent to automatically begin playback of the audio stream as soon as it can do so without stopping.

autoplay = "autoplay" or "" (empty string) or empty.global attributes (accesskey class contenteditable contextmenu dir draggable dropzone hidden id lang spellcheck style tabindex title translate).

It is commonly used to play back a single audio file within a web page, showing a GUI widget with play/pause/volume controls. The element represents a sound, or an audio stream. 3 Web Audio API and MediaStream Processing API.
