Audio not playing from Python script from server

Question

I am facing a peculiar issue here. I am trying to load all the audio links to my Python script from a json file so that they can be played client side, they display correctly but after the 4th nothing plays - I press the play button but there is no audio.

I have the path of several sound files stored in a json file (what I am trying to load is much bigger ~50-60 urls) but here is an example:

file.json:

{

    "Music Type 1" : "http://music/file1.mp3",
    "Music Type 2" : "http://music/file2.mp3",
    "Music Type 3" : "http://music/file3.mp3",
    "Music Type 4" : "http://music/file4.mp3",
    "Music Type 5" : "http://music/file5.mp3"
}

And to display these on my webpage I am using the following:

#!C:/Network/Python/Scripts/python.exe
print("Content-Type: text/html\n")

import json
a = json.load(open('file.json'))

for i in a.keys():
    print('<h1>{}</h1>\n'.format(i))
    print('<audio controls><source src="{}"></audio>'.format(a[i]))

Everything displays correctly when viewing source (browser side):

<h1>Music Type 1</h1>

<audio controls><source src="http://music/file1.mp3"></audio>
<h1>Music Type 2</h1>

<audio controls><source src="http://music/file2.mp3"></audio>
<h1>Music Type 3</h1>

<audio controls><source src="http://music/file3.mp3"></audio>
<h1>Music Type 4</h1>

<audio controls><source src="http://music/file4.mp3"></audio>
<h1>Music Type 5</h1>

<audio controls><source src="http://music/file5.mp3"></audio>

My first thoughts that the urls were wrong, so I checked the url of Music Type 5 and it was correct. It played from browser as expected.

I then tried a second Python script with the same url and it played perfectly:

#!C:/Network/Python/Scripts/python.exe
print("Content-Type: text/html\n")

print('<audio controls><source src="http://music/file5.mp3"></audio>')

For those who do not know how to use the audio tag here is a quick reference. I am running XAMPP server Windows. The files are also live streams.

I do not understand why the audio is not playing. Can anyone tell me how to fix this, or what could be causing this problem?

Answer 1

It turns out that the mp3 files were corrupt, the browser did not recognise them to play. The script itself works fine.