Playing sound?

[Danneman]

How can I play sounds by the press of a button in a WRT-widget?

I'm trying to use:

<object id="sound1" type="audio/x-mpeg" data="mysound.mp3" width="18" height="20" autoplay="true" autostart="0"></object>

But despite setting autoplay to false and autostart to 0, the last sound is automatically played when the widget is loades. Any ideas/suggestions?

[hp3]

I had the same experience with embedded sound.

You might try using Flash if you need the interface within the screen.

Alternatively you can use openURL to load the sound into the music player.

[jzferreira]

Instead of use openURL or use flash embedd, you can open the Music Player Application. Look here: how you do this: http://library.forum.nokia.com/topic...F8DB2DDC8.html

[hp3]

can you pass a url to the music player through openApplication? I've tried this in the past and was only able to open the music player, but not specify a sound file or url.

perhaps you can include a code example of how to use openApplication to play an online sound or a sound stored in the file system.

[Danneman]

hp3:

I had the same experience with embedded sound.

You might try using Flash if you need the interface within the screen.

Alternatively you can use openURL to load the sound into the music player.

I need to integrate a copule of sounds in a single page, and the user should be able to press a button to listen to a sound without leaving the page, preferrably.
With this background, is Flash the best method? And do you mean embedding a flash-object (swf-file containing a sound) with:

<EMBED src=”mysound.swf" wmode=”transparent” … (other parameters)> </EMBED>

Additionally (assuming this works), does all the nokia telephones able to manage widgets play flash without having to first install it?


Javier:

Thanks for the tip, but that would mean exiting or at least pushing the widget to the back, right? That would make it very tedious since there are several sounds that are short and should play by the press of a button. It would be a lot of flipping between applications.

[hp3]

yes, this requires launching the music player on top of the widget. I've also encountered intermitent problems with s60 3.2 devices when going back and forth between the music player and widget, where the widget no longer changes the label and function of the right softkey when the user turns the device into landscape mode.

It would be much better if Nokia came up with a real HTML 5 solution for audio within its web browser intead of the poorly implemented audio video option we have now.

[Danneman]

This code works:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="125" height="125" id="MyFlash" align="top">
	<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
	<param name="movie" value="test.swf" />
	<param name="loop" value="false" />
	<param name="menu" value="false" />
	<param name="quality" value="high" />
	<param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
	<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
	<embed src="test.swf" loop="true" menu="false" quality="high" wmode="opaque" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="25" height="25" name="Finish" align="top" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>

The only problem Im left with is that I have to hoover over the flash-button in order to make it visible.

Perhaps this has to do with the fact that Im using a technique to load partial code of html into the index.html so as to have several pages in a widget. It seems the page doesnt refresh properly doing this. Ive tried <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="600">, but that doesnt help. Is there any way to fix this?

[hp3]

another way to do this is to use a hidden flash player and javascript interaction with the flash player to play the sound. Use HTML and javascript for the interface instead of flash. This way you may not need to deal with giving focus to the flash player first before being able to operate the embedded flash player.

There is a wiki post about using javascript with flash.

[Danneman]

another way to do this is to use a hidden flash player and javascript interaction with the flash player to play the sound. Use HTML and javascript for the interface instead of flash. This way you may not need to deal with giving focus to the flash player first before being able to operate the embedded flash player.

There is a wiki post about using javascript with flash.

I think I found the post (http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.ph...dget_%28WRT%29), and it seems like a good idea. However, Ive just converted all my code using embedded flash and it works alright, so Ill postpone it for a while.

Thanks for the help guys