how to play a blob audio file in browser?

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I have audio files stored in blob type in mysql db.

Webpage has list of these files which are links:

[code]while(list($id, $name)= mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo ("<li><a href=\"download.php?id=".$id."\" onclick=\"showCont(this); return false;\"");
echo (" title=\"".$name."\">".$name."");
echo ("</a></li><br />");[/code]

I want user to click a link and the file plays in embedded audio player.

how to make it happen?

I have
[code]<embed id="desc" src="/" autostart="true" volume="100" loop="false" height="200" width="300" controls="console">[/code]

and javascript showCont() sets the src attribute depending what the user clicks.

How can I grab that $id, retrieve the blob file from the db and have it play?  I'm thinking it should be uploaded to a temp directory on my hosting server then played back for the user...