# Playing Sounds In Web Pages

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by Harmony (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Thursday, 23-Sep-2010 6:42:42

Does anyone know the best way of getting a sound to play in a web page using HTML code? Or would the only option be to use javascript or PHP?
Thanks for any ideas/advice.

## Post 2 by Stevo (The Established Ass) on Thursday, 23-Sep-2010 7:29:01

Are you saying you want the sound to play automatically when the page is loaded? I'd think the best way to do that would be with the <embed> tag.

## Post 3 by Harmony (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Thursday, 23-Sep-2010 8:29:03

Yep. I looked and apparently the &LT;embed> tag has been abandonded or whatever you call that word beginning with d. I thought I might still be able to use it, so tried it, but the intenet settings here at work are being stupid, so I might have a look a bit later when I go home.

## Post 4 by Harmony (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Thursday, 23-Sep-2010 16:16:02

OK. I was completely thick! I had to change the security settings in internet options to low and turn off pop up blocker to be able to get the sounds to play, then they worked.

## Post 5 by synthesizer101 (I just keep on posting!) on Friday, 24-Sep-2010 23:01:44

Guys, you can use the following tag:
Replace the hings in perentheses with the symbols:
(Less than) bgsound src(equals)(start quote)(file name and path)(end quote)(greater than)
I use this tag and everything works fine. Just put it after the body tag.