@heyitsrick, fair enough. Wasn’t really posting as full solution but more about what research I had dug up. Once I learned native 3.9+ [audio] support, I adapted my own system – good luck to others.
and virus.mp3 was never a real link.
The issue is that the update added native audio support.
You can solve it by embedded using format:
[audio src="http://www.dubstep.info/virus.mp3"]
Read more at:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/audio
http://codex.wordpress.org/Audio_Shortcode
