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Firefox 3.5 supports <audio> and <video>!!!

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The Music of Erich Zann by H.P. Lovecraft, recorded by Cameron Halket for Librivox:

The above audio file is encoded in Ogg Vorbis, a patent-free, royalty-free format. Mozilla Firefox 3.5 supports the HTML 5 <audio> and <video> tags that facilitate browser-native handling of audio and video playback. Vorbis, like other Ogg formats (Speex, CELT, FLAC, Theora), is a free multimedia codec. There are no royalties, and the source code for the codec is available for no charge under a free software license.

It will also work in Safari 4 if you have the XiphQT plugin installed.