Oh, I get it. Apologies for my ignorance.
My theme doesn’t display “Attachement Display Settings” – the thing is labelled differently. Under Link URL I have three choices available: ” None”, “File URL” and “Attachement Post URL” (which seems to be the default setting in this case).
Choosing “File URL” produces the correct results for the audio player to function as intended without having to add the URL manually. It all works really nicely.
Thanks for pointing this out to me. I am fairly new to tricking the “web” into doing what I want. Have the vision but lack the code, but am am learning….
BTW – would you happen to know how to adjust the player’s width when closed. I would need it to be a bit wider when idle so it sits better with the visual design. I figured out how to adjust the width when opened and lots of other stuff but not this.
Thanks.