Base64 URL Link in <a> Tag Fails to Start Player: Possible Extension Issue

[mathkartel]

I am trying to pass this Base64-encoded link via <a>, but the player doesn't start (I believe it's because the link lacks an extension in its name). How can I adjust this? Do you know a solution?

[scottschiller]

I think for most of the demo players, I have them check the link for "playability" by looking for a MIME type hint as a type attribute. So if you had something like <a href="data:audio/mp3;base64,xxxxxxx" type="audio/mp3">link</a>, the type attribute should help if not the portion of the data URI itself.

I have not updated SM2 in a number of years, and it uses HTML5 Audio() objects as opposed to the more modern (and at this point, very well-supported) Web Audio API which has much more powerful audio capabilities.