flash-sound-player

The simplest flash fallback for HTML5 audio playback available, written in under 50 LOC.

Why?

Because Firefox still can't play sounds without crashing, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744836.

Usage

Embed the swf in your markup:

<object id="flash_sound_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="flash_sound_player.swf" width="0" height="0" allowscriptaccess="always">
  <p>You should not see this if flash is working</p>
</object>

Use javascript to play a sound:

document.getElementById("flash_sound_player").playSound("http://assets.sauspiel.de/sounds/male/allgaeuerisch/greeting/begruessung-1.mp3");

Be sure to have a crossDomain.xml file on the host that allows the loading of the sound files, for more information see the Adobe Developer Conneciton site.

Need to detect Flash first? There you go.

var hasFlash = false;
try {
  ao = new ActiveXObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash");
  hasFlash = ao != null;
} catch (e) {
  hasFlash = navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"] !== void 0;
}

Building

Get the Flex SDK, and set FLEX_HOME, e.g.:

export FLEX_HOME=~/Downloads/flex_sdk_4

and run ./build.sh.

© 2013 Martin Kavalar, Sauspiel GmbH