Question

There is an Open Source mp3 player that is flash based. I was wondering if anyone knew how to pause and play it using javascript.

Here is a working example of it, but I can’t necessarily figure out how it is being done.
http://sightofnick.com/public/ffmp3/test-skin.html

Answer 1

For the player:

<object id="theIdOfThePlayer" ...>
...
<embed name="theIdOfThePlayer">
...

Get the player like this:

var player=(document.theIdOfThePlayer) ? document.theIdOfThePlayer : document.getElementById('theIdOfThePlayer');

Pause like this:

player.stopSound();

Start like this:

player.playSound();