Firefox play wav files in browser

Again, I will need to see your site before I can tell you how - a link would be nice. Posted Apr Wed 12th am Try www. I did download and install Quicktime, may have not configured it right. And it does work using Explorer, thanks. Posted Apr Wed 12th pm Worked like a charm. Thank you very much. Just a note. No one offered to help me. It's refreshing to see you just helped and didn't question what or why or offer your opinion.

Again, thank you. Posted Apr Wed 12th pm You should've lectured them back about Frontpage. Speaks volumes, doesn't it? Embed is the best tag to use, I agree. However, the HTML police will tell you that object is the way to go.

I have no choice but to play wav files directly in the browser serverside encoding to mp3 isn't an option, unfortunately. What's the best way to do this?

As far as I'm aware flash isn't an option, but speedy playback really is critical. In the past, you might have done it like this:.

It's been a few years since the last answer. Embed tag was good but I had an issue trying to trigger it to play in JavaScript. New audio tag works well is most browsers. Due to unfixed bug issue from year? I tried JPlayer's 2. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? If you use a hosts file , you can temporarily disable it by renaming it Xhosts. Or, you can edit the hosts file to remove specific entries that may be causing videos on certain sites to fail see this thread for an example. Based on information from Video or audio does not play mozillaZine KB. Grow and share your expertise with others. Answer questions and improve our knowledge base. This article describes what to do when you can't hear sound in Firefox.

To allow autoplay of media with sound, see Allow or block media autoplay Firefox handles many types of audio and video content on web pages.

This article explains which media formats you can play and how to control, This is a Home Support Forums Firefox firefox won't play wav but other browsers do. Learn More. Since yesterday, I've also tried it with buttonClick. Chosen solution There are lots of options number of channels, sample rate for creating WAV files and Firefox doesn't support them all, only a small set of commonly used formats is supported.

Wesley Branton. Thank you, Wesley - Unfortunately, that didn't seem to help. Yes indeed - that does work here for me too.

I'll have to try the code with some other wav files as well. Hi cor-el - I'm not sure what you mean. Could you please clarify what you meant a bit more?