MediaElement.js - How do you set duration before playing audio?

Question

Is there a way to preload the duration before pressing play the first time on an audio player. I know you can use { duration: 120 } which is fine if every clip is 120 seconds long. I do not have the information available in the database to dynamically populate this variable so there must be another way to tweak the MediaElement.JS script to do it.

Any thoughts anyone?

Answer 1

Let the browser load the metadata by setting preload attribute.

Syntax:

<audio preload="auto|metadata|none">

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_audio_preload.asp