Question

How would I write a function that stops ALL instances of playing html5 audio in the DOM?

html5 audio

<audio class="AudioPlayerV1" preload="none" width="292">
    <source src="test.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" />
</audio>

js

AudioPlayerV1('*').each(function() {
    this.setStop();
});

Answer 1

$.each($('audio'), function () {
    this.pause();
});

This just finds all the <audio> elements in the DOM and uses the standard API to pause the playback for each.

Here’s some excellent reading about <audio> and <video> tags: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_HTML5_audio_and_video

Update

The documentation for the AudioPlayerV1 script states this is how you pause an <audio> element:

$('#audio_id').AudioPlayerV1('pause');

Source: http://1.s3.envato.com/files/14653378/index.html#how-to-use

It looks like the AudioPlayerV1 plugin is supposed to be called on a selection of DOM element(s) and passed in an option.

Update

To run the plugin to pause multiple <audio> elements you should be able to do this:

$('audio').AudioPlayerV1('pause');

Which selects the <audio> elements in the DOM and passes them to the AudioPlayerV1 plugin. the plugin should be written to handle this but if it isn’t then you have to call the plugin on each element. Inside a loop would be easiest:

$.each($('audio'), function () {
    $(this).AudioPlayerV1('pause');
});