How to play audio?

Question

I am making a game with HTML5 and JavaScript.

How could I play game audio via JavaScript?

Answer 1

If you want to be able to play the sound even when the browser-tab is currently not selected, you have to load the audio-resource on page load.

Like so:

var audio = new Audio('audio/path.mp3');

function playSound(){
    audio.play();
}

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