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Playing sound notifications using Javascript?

I’m making a game in JS, and I need a proper way to play a sound when something happens. How do you do that with JS/HTML5? I saw this article, but even with their example, it doesn’t really work! Sometimes I do hear that bird, but only for a short time, and I can’t get it to work anymore then.

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You can make use of the HTML5 <audio> tag: http://jsfiddle.net/STTnr/.

var audio = document.getElementById('audio');

setTimeout(function() {
    audio.play();        // play it through JavaScript after 3 seconds
}, 3000);

HTML:

<audio src="something" id="audio"></audio>

Just hide the element itself:

#audio {
    display: none;
}

Do note that no browser supports all formats. This can be frustrating, but you can supply your audio in several formats.