Problems with sound

[Chris Leffer]

Hi.

I have a page that plays a .wav file from time to time, when the page
loads. Some of my customers say that the sound does not play and others
say that the sound plays very well. All of my customers are using
Internet Explorer 6.0+ .
What is the best or correct way to play a sound file from an asp.net
page? That's the code I am using:

Protected WithEvents plhSound As PlaceHolder

Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

Dim embWarning As New HtmlGenericControl("embed")

With embAlerta.Attributes
.Add("src", "warn.wav")
.Add("autostart", "true")
.Add("type", "audio/wav")
.Add("width", "0")
.Add("height", "0")
.Add("volume", "0")
End With
plhSound.Controls.Add(embWarning)

End Sub


Regards,
Chris Leffer

 

[vMike]

Hi.

I have a page that plays a .wav file from time to time, when the page
loads. Some of my customers say that the sound does not play and others
say that the sound plays very well. All of my customers are using
Internet Explorer 6.0+ .
What is the best or correct way to play a sound file from an asp.net
page? That's the code I am using:

Protected WithEvents plhSound As PlaceHolder

Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

Dim embWarning As New HtmlGenericControl("embed")

With embAlerta.Attributes
.Add("src", "warn.wav")
.Add("autostart", "true")
.Add("type", "audio/wav")
.Add("width", "0")
.Add("height", "0")
.Add("volume", "0")
End With
plhSound.Controls.Add(embWarning)

End Sub


Regards,
Chris Leffer

I use <bgsound id="sound1" runat="server"/> in my page and
Protected sound1 as htmlgenericcontrol

sound1.visible = false
or
sound1.visible = true
sound1.attributes("src") = "somesoundfile.wav"

depending on whether I want it to play or not.

Mike

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

Here are the details for a couple different techniques for playing audio
(and video) on web pages:
http://SteveOrr.net/Articles/StreamingMedia.aspx