Mail app no longer plays QuickTime sound files.

Before upgrading to Mountain Lion, I was able to play sound files attached to mail within the app.
In other words, if someone sent me a sound file, it would appear as a QuickTime sound within the body of the email and I could play it.
That was a very nice feature.
Now sound files will not play within the mail window. Instead, I need an external player such as QuickTime Player or iTunes.
How can I get that feature back?

What specific sound file types will not play as Mail attachments in Mountain Lion?
I just sent an .m4r (ringtone), mp3, and .m4a (iTunes aac music) files as Mail attachments. The first appeared as an icon that played via QuickLook from within Mail. The second two appeared as black, QuickTime styled, embedded music play bar attachments. They played back flawlessly.
Have you installed any application recently that may have hi-jacked the default QuickTime audio playback? It would have done so silently, or popped up a dialog requesting to perform the hi-jack on a list of music file formats.
You may have to select each particular audio file format in Finder Get Info and restore QuickTime in the Open with section on that panel.

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