Question

I am writing a dhtml application that creates an interactive simulation of a system. The data for the simulation is generated from another tool, and there is already a very large amount of legacy data.

Some steps in the simulation require that we play ‘voice-over’ clips of audio. I’ve been unable to find an easy way to accomplish this across multiple browsers.

Soundmanager2 comes pretty close to what I need, but it will only play mp3 files, and the legacy data may contain some .wav files as well.

Does anyone have any other libraries that might help?

Answer 1

You will have to include a plug-in like Real Audio or QuickTime to handle the .wav file, but this should work…

//====================================================================== var soundEmbed = null; //====================================================================== function soundPlay(which)     {     if (!soundEmbed)         {         soundEmbed = document.createElement('embed');         soundEmbed.setAttribute('src', '/snd/'+which+'.wav');         soundEmbed.setAttribute('hidden', true);         soundEmbed.setAttribute('autostart', true);         }     else         {         document.body.removeChild(soundEmbed);         soundEmbed.removed = true;         soundEmbed = null;         soundEmbed = document.createElement('embed');         soundEmbed.setAttribute('src', '/snd/'+which+'.wav');         soundEmbed.setAttribute('hidden', true);         soundEmbed.setAttribute('autostart', true);         }     soundEmbed.removed = false;     document.body.appendChild(soundEmbed);     } //======================================================================