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Asked: 2026-06-01T07:23:29+00:00

this is the scenario i’m trying to achieve: a sound stored on the same

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this is the scenario i’m trying to achieve: a sound stored on the same server as a web application, plays when a condition is met on the client. It works perfectly when I run it in the IDE and change the webconfig to point to the server where the DB is. However when I deploy it and access it via the browser, the sound does not play. The same sound that played when i used my development machine. Code is:

 var configsetings = new System.Configuration.AppSettingsReader();
 string soundPath= configsetings.GetValue("Notification",typeof(System.String)).ToString();
 var sound = new System.Media.SoundPlayer { SoundLocation = Server.MapPath(soundPath) };
 sound.Load();
 sound.Play();

web config is:

<add key="Notification" value="~/beep-4.wav" />

The sound file is sitting in the root folder of the ASP.NET web application. So what could be wrong? There is no audio output device on the server neither is there a player like media player nevertheless these factors did NOT stop it from working in my dev machine.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Looking at the code you posted I will assume you wrote it in C#.

    So, this code will run on the server-side, and the client-side (the web browser) will never know about it or about your audio file. Please read about asp.net code-behind and how it works. If you want to play an audio file in the browser (client-side), you need to use either javascript, or flash, or the < audio > tag from html5.

    By installing a sound card on a server you will only achieve (in a best case scenario) to get the file played on that server.

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