How to detect if html audio tag can't play audio file

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Some audio/ogg files with special codec can't be played with html5 audio tag. How can I detect it to show a message for user to download file and play with special player?

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You can use the audio element's canplaytype method to detect whether or not the current browser can play a specific codec.

Example from diveintohtml5

function canPlay (codec) {
    var a = document.createElement('audio');
    return !!(a.canPlayType && a.canPlayType(codec).replace(/no/, ''));
}

canPlay('audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"'); // true or false