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I would say that including two audio assets for the same sound seems like a code smell.

Perhaps an MP3 => OGG JavaScript converter is in order.

Transcoding is not a computationally cheap endeavor…

Well, since we are talking about a demo/proof of concept it could be interesting to try.

In case it slipped right past your nose, the previous comments were a play-on-words in reference to the library.

It didn't, but I was wondering about the actual technical aspect of using a single asset type and a codec as a shiv.

I think he meant to say an MP3 => OGG JavaScript converter is an odor.