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copied!<p>Which audio formats are supported on each platform?</p> <p>iOS: AAC audio, MP3 audio, AIF audio, WAVE audio</p> <p>Safari on iOS (including iPad) currently supports uncompressed WAV and AIF audio, MP3 audio, and AAC-LC or HE-AAC audio. HE-AAC is the preferred format.</p> <p>Safari on iOS (including iPad) currently supports MPEG-4 video (Baseline profile) and QuickTime movies encoded with H.264 video (Baseline profile) and one of the supported audio types.</p> <p>iPad and iPhone 3G and later support H.264 Baseline profile 3.1. Earlier versions of iPhone support H.264 Baseline profile 3.0.</p> <p>Links:</p> <p><a href="https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/Using_HTML5_Audio_Video/Device-SpecificConsiderations/Device-SpecificConsiderations.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40009523-CH5-SW1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/Using_HTML5_Audio_Video/Device-SpecificConsiderations/Device-SpecificConsiderations.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40009523-CH5-SW1</a></p> <p>Android : MP3 </p> <p>Link:</p> <p><a href="http://html5test.com/compare/browser/android23/android40/android22.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://html5test.com/compare/browser/android23/android40/android22.html</a></p> <p>You can follow this link to test the supported audio format</p> <p><a href="http://hpr.dogphilosophy.net/test/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://hpr.dogphilosophy.net/test/</a></p> <p>For each platform, is a user interaction event (eg. onclick) required to play audio from javascript? </p> <p>No, it can also play automatically.</p> <p><a href="http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_video_autoplay.asp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_video_autoplay.asp</a></p> <p>Can audio be played from a data URI on the Android and iOS Audio element?</p> <p>Here is the link which explains the probability to play audio using data URI </p> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2270151/is-it-possible-to-use-data-uris-in-video-and-audio-tags">Is it possible to use data URIs in video and audio tags?</a></p> <p>Are there any other major limitations of HTML5 Audio on these platforms?</p> <p>Here is the link which explains the linitations</p> <p><a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-ioshtml5/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-ioshtml5/</a></p> <p><a href="http://blog.chenalexander.com/2011/limitations-of-layering-html5-audio/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://blog.chenalexander.com/2011/limitations-of-layering-html5-audio/</a></p>

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