Playing sound with JavaScript

Question

Doesn\'t matter what I do, I simply can\'t get this to play a sound in Firefox or IE, or Chrome for that matter.

Answer 1

Try This Method, to play sound in all your browsers :

function playSound(soundfile_ogg, soundfile_mp, soundfile_ma) {
    if ("Audio" in window) {
        var a = new Audio();
        if (!!(a.canPlayType && a.canPlayType('audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"')
                .replace(/no/, '')))
            a.src = soundfile_ogg;
        else if (!!(a.canPlayType && a.canPlayType('audio/mpeg;').replace(/no/,
                '')))
            a.src = soundfile_mp;
        else if (!!(a.canPlayType && a.canPlayType(
                'audio/mp4; codecs="mp4a.40.2"').replace(/no/, '')))
            a.src = soundfile_ma;
        else
            a.src = soundfile_mp;

        a.autoplay = true;
        return;
    } else {
        alert("Time almost up");
    }
}

to play the sound, do something like this:

playSound("/file/horse.wav", "/file/horse.mp3","/file/horse.m4a");