SoundManager w HTML5 Audio is causing 206 Partial Content errors?

Question

I'm using SoundManager (SM) with HTML 5 audio preferred along with the standard SM flash fallback.

For some reason I'm seeing requests being cancelled, resulting in the error red in console though sounds play just fine.

Any idea why? Is this standard with CDNs or maybe HTML5 audio? Anyone seen this before? Thanks

Request URL:https://hall.com/misc/sounds/message_sent.mp3
Request Method:GET
Status Code: 206 Partial Content (from cache)

Answer 1

It's an issue with the server hosting the MP3s, not with SoundManager2. The server doesn't appear to support Partial Content (i.e. byte-range requests). You can read more about what is required for Partial Content support or you can set the stream property on your sound object to false or with SoundManager's defaultOptions. Doing this will suggest that the browser request the audio data without the Accept-Ranges: bytes HTTP header.

soundManager.defaultOptions = {
  stream: false
}