Playing Audio in browser window in an odd way?

[mechro99]

Okay, I know the subject wasn't very descriptive. I don't know if this is possible, but you brilliant types have helped me with so much, I thought I'd give it a try.

I'm doing a site for a talent agency. They want to have a section that has a vintage radio-type interface that plays different music when tuned to different "stations" by pushing buttons. Main point stumping me: Playing the audio without showing the media player device. The only way I can think to do this for sure is in a flash movie that contains all the music, which seems to be simple, but maybe too long to load.

Does anyone have ideas? Hope I explained the problem well enough.

 

[Supra]

You could put the Media Player ActiveX control in another frame and hide it inside a <div> tag like so:

<div id=&quot;Cloak&quot; style=&quot;visibility:hidden&quot;>
<object classid=&quot;CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95&quot; id=&quot;mySound&quot;>
<param name=&quot;Filename&quot; value=&quot;mySound.wav&quot;>
<param name=&quot;AutoStart&quot; value=&quot;False&quot;>
<param name=&quot;ShowControls&quot; value=&quot;True&quot;>
<param name=&quot;ShowStatusBar&quot; value=&quot;False&quot;>
<param name=&quot;ShowDisplay&quot; value=&quot;False&quot;>
<param name=&quot;AutoRewind&quot; value=&quot;True&quot;>
<embed type=&quot;application/x-mplayer2&quot; pluginspage=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/MediaPlayer/&quot;[/URL] filename=&quot;mySound.wav&quot; autostart=&quot;False&quot; showcontrols=&quot;True&quot; showstatusbar=&quot;False&quot; showdisplay=&quot;False&quot; autorewind=&quot;True&quot; id=&quot;mySound&quot;>
</embed> 
</object>
</div>

And play the sound / music by using:

<script>
<!--
mySound.play();
//-->
</script>

 

[mechro99]

Could I do the same using real audio instead of mp3 or wav documents?

 

[Supra]

Yup.