HTML5 audio control stop button (as opposed to pause)

Question

I've been absolutely everywhere (I think) and can't seem to find a way to call a stop event in an html5 audio controller. My audio controller has a playlist where each track will play when selected or cycle through each track to the next. There's also a next button which works.

My play/pause button looks like this:

`    function playPause() {
        var audioPlayer = document.getElementsByTagName('audio')[0];
        if(audioPlayer!=undefined) {
            if (audioPlayer.paused) {
                audioPlayer.play();
            } else {
                audioPlayer.pause();
            }
        } else {
            loadPlayer();
        }
    }
`

I need a "Stop" button that stops the audio and goes back to the beginning of the track currently being played. I thought about using the current playback postion somehow, but can't get my head around that.

I've also tried this (adapted by advice here in another question), to no avail:

`    function stop() {
        var audioPlayer = document.getElementsByTagName('audio');
        addEventListener('loadedmetadata', function() {
        this.currentTime = 0;
            }, false);
        }
`

Any ideas?

Answer 1

If your play/pause is working, this should work for stop:

function stop() {
    var audioPlayer = document.getElementsByTagName('audio')[0];
    audioPlayer.pause();
    audioPlayer.currentTime = 0;
}

Answer 2

Here is a small demo code, where you can play, pause and stop an audio.

Live Demo

HTML

<input type="button" value="play" id="playBtn" />
<input type="button" value="pause" id="pauseBtn" />
<input type="button" value="stop" id="stopBtn" />

Jquery

var source = "http://www.giorgiosardo.com/HTML5/audio/audio/sample.mp3"
var audio = document.createElement("audio");
audio.src = source;

$("#playBtn").click(function () {
    audio.play();
});

$("#pauseBtn").click(function () {
    audio.pause();
});

$("#stopBtn").click(function () {
    audio.pause();
    audio.currentTime = 0;
});

Source

Answer 3

If you want to stop the music and abort the downloading operation you can use this code:

<button id="btnStop" onclick="player.src = ''; player.src = 'song.mp3';">Stop</button>

We are using java here to change the song src and then put it back there! Tricky but worky