#Html5 audio controls how to
#Html5 audio controls mp4
#Html5 audio controls code

See the example code below, which actually toggle current mute state: We can instantly make an audio off and turn on to its earlier volume level easily with use of “muted” property. We need to keep checking whether volume reaches its largest or minimum value, otherwise JavaScript exception error will be thrown.

$('.audioDemo').prop('currentTime',$('.audioDemo').prop('currentTime')-5) Īudio player has its own “volume” properly which can be controlled with jQuery as below: Here is what will do to stop:ĭefault HTML5 player doesn’t provide these facility, but we can easily make such functionality with a little jQuery code. However, there is not ready event to stop an audio, so we will need to do it with help of ‘pause’ event and another property named “currentTime”, which indicates the current playing time. Start playing audio and to pause it is fairly easy to handle, just need to trigger corresponding events as below: $('.alert-success').html('Audio Loaded succesfully') To do something after the loading, use the following code before triggering the load event: But it won’t wait till the audio loads in full, which usually loads on demand. However, the event will be triggered immediate after the metadata loaded and audio starts loading. We can also add event listener to know when its loaded. Lets use the following code to load the audio: We will do them by ourselves from jQuery to boost the page load performance. Loading The Audio With jQuery:Īs you can see on the above HTML5 code, we have set the “preload” option to “none”, which means, no information about the audio file will be loaded on page load, neither the audio file nor any metadata. We have kept two media, because of compatibility issue on browsers, so that alternative one being loaded. Lets use the following code as our HTML5 code for the audio media: So, if you have N number of audio files on a single page, and instead of letting user dealing with N audio players, you can give it an efficient interface and control what to play/stop etc with jQuery.Ĭheckout The jQuery Audio Controller Demo Well, we can control almost every feature that default HTML5 player provides like play/pause/volume up/down, mute on/off etc and additional functionality like stop,forward/backward capability etc. Lets start rolling! How Far We Can Control? This is handy if you are about to develop a dynamic application that make use of several audio media and want to control them from your jQuery script efficiently.

#Html5 audio controls how to

In this tutorial, we will see, how to control the audio with jQuery. * Example of using audio control */Į._ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED:Īlert('The audio file is not supported.') Īlert('There is a decoding problem issue.You can consider this tutorial as a consequence of my earlier html5 audio API tutorial. See below example code on how to create audio control in HTML5. We use the audio sample file, so basically there is no audio but we just want to show you how this controls looks like. This attribute is used to catch an error if there is an issue loading the audio. The value for this attribute is the location of the audio path. This attribute is used to determine the source or path of the audio. The value for this attribute is auto, metadata, or none. This attribute is used to determine whether automatically load the audio or not. The value for this attribute is the url path of the image. This attribute is used to determine whether you show an image if a audio you specify is not exists. The value for this attribute is true or false.

This attribute is used to determine whether you want to keep the audio over and over (looping). The control bar in this case is the play/pause buttons. This attribute is used to determine whether you want to display the controls bar or not. This attribute is used to determine whether the audio will be auto play or not. The following attributes are available in the audio control properties. This tag is supported the following browsers: Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Internet Explorer 9 or above and Safari. So, how to use this audio control in HTML5? Well it is relatively easy, you can just use the following syntax tag.

#Html5 audio controls mp4

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