What is the meaning of "Only raw PCM 16 bits mono files with the same frequency as the current voice are supported by the audio tag."?

When trying to use the HTML5 <audio> tag, I get this error:

Only raw PCM 16 bits mono file开发者_开发技巧s with the same frequency as the current voice are supported by the audio tag.

What does this mean?

I understand that Only raw PCM 16 bits mono files with the same frequency as the current voice are supported by the HTML 5 <audio> tag. Your file is in the wrong format - resample it to a single (mono) channel at, say, 44.1KHz (standard), encoded as 16 bit PCM, and it should play fine.

is it a wave file? If not you need a put the pcm in to wav file PCM is the audio format in wav containers. I also think it can be AIFF in wav files but mostly WAV files contain PCM. So if the file you are trying to play is not a wav file it might be complaining about that. Just the extension is wav does not also mean that it is a wav file. The file needs to have wav headers and other stuff that wav would have.