How to play a sound with JS? [duplicate]

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

HTML5 has the new <audio>-Tag that can be used to play sound. It even has a pretty simple JavaScript Interface:

<audio id="sound1" src="yoursound.mp3" preload="auto"></audio>
<button onclick="document.getElementById('sound1').play();">Play it</button>