New update broke audio for my cards

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If it stopped working between 24.11 and 25.02, then I suspect your issue is in your card template(s). A bug fix in 25.02 took away a workaround some template authors were using related to audio.

In your card templates, you’ll be looking for a <!-- commented-out --> field-replacement that matches the name of the audio field in your note type, like –

<!-- {{Audio}} -->

For every card type that has that, change it to:

{{Audio}}

After you fix that, your cards will now show a play button in that spot.

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If you don’t want audio play buttons, you can turn them off for the whole app from Preferences > Review > Show play buttons. Or if you want to turn them off just for this one note type, add this on the Styling tab –

.replay-button { 
  display: none; 
}

For more detailed steps, see the fix documented here for one specific note type – AnkiMobile 25.02.1 audio not playing - #9 by kieran .

That is generally caused by importing a deck that has very high New-queue numbers. See:

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