Chromium not playing mp3?

Question

For some reason, the same mp3 files :

• http > my.mp3
• https> same.mp3

plays on Firefox, and doesn't play on Chromium Version 37.0.2062.94 Ubuntu 14.04 (290621) (64-bit). Using the Code inspector, I see no feedbacks in the console.

What is going wrong ? How to make it work ?

Answer 1

As a not completely free format, Mp3 is not supported by Chromium out of the box. See http://www.chromium.org/audio-video

Solutions:

• Ubuntu:

  sudo apt-get install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-nonfree 
  

• Windows: see How do I add MP3, MP4 and H.264 support to Chromium on Windows?