Safari won't play mp3 - only downloads the files

Very annoying, this: I am running Safari 5.1.4 on a Lion MacBook Pro (latest version of Lion), but for some reason it won't play mp3 files - it always ends up downloading them.
However, if I try the same web page with the same mp3 files on, say, Chrome, they play just fine.
How can I fix this?

Thanks for the reply, but that's not what I want at all - it's too inconvenient.
I want mp3 files etc. to play back from *within* Safari, like it used to. Not sure when this was broken, but it is broken. As I said in the first message, playing mp3s etc. from within Chrome works just fine (I don't have to open another app to play them back), so I know this should work in Safari, too.

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