I am building a browser songs personalized application. I am in the starting phase of the application where I want to click a button and change the song currently being played by the audio player in HTML5. I wanted to know how can I change the source of the audio. I tried using a ajax call when the button is clicked and then the following commands
var audio= document.getElementById("myplayer");
audio.src="E:/My Collection/abcd.mp3";
But this doesn't work and the same audio song continues. Can anyone help me with this. Thank You.
Take the list of your audio file in an array.
var audioArr = new Array();
audioArr = ["abc.mp3", "xyz.mp3"];
And, then onclick() of button you can pass index. Eg:
audio.src = audioArr[index];
I hope this works :)
in addition to what Bhavya said about array, add audio.load(); or audio.play(); after changing the src. it would make the audio tag reload.
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I think I need a script that will "get" all the playing HTML5 audio controls and "pause" them apart from the one the user clicks play on. I have seen and can handle simple play, pause, stop with just one audio controls but my skills fall way short of coding something to do what I'm after with multiples. audio controls is a neat solution and integrates well with my current design, I just need help making it work properly. The use case:
https://aberaeronskies.com/ page loads and nothing plays which is desired, user clicks play on a audio controls tag and the track snippet plays which is desired. User clicks on another one (there are 14) and it starts to play, trouble is, the first one is still playing which is not desired; one could click on all of them and they would all play!
The requirement is for a script or a call or whatever (I'm no coder, just doing this as freebie for a mate) that when a user clicks play on any one of the 14 tracks it pauses all other playing tracks.
I thought this was it: Pause all other players besides activated one. jQuery audio plugin for <audio> element and Play selected audio while pausing/resetting others but I'cant make them work.
It may be that this cannot be done and I need to rethink the whole presentation of multiple tracks and if so, further advice on where to look (in addition to above) would also be useful.
Thanks very much...
Ah...
This works
var curPlaying;
window.addEventListener("play", function(evt)
{
if(window.$_currentlyPlaying && window.$_currentlyPlaying != evt.target)
{
window.$_currentlyPlaying.pause();
}
window.$_currentlyPlaying = evt.target;
}, true);
$(function () {
$(".playback").click(function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
var song = $(this).next('audio')[0];
if (song.paused) {
if (curPlaying) {
$("audio", "#" + curPlaying)[0].pause();
}
song.play();
curPlaying = $(this).parent()[0].id;
} else {
song.pause();
curPlaying = null;
}
});
});
I'm working on a tour in webvr and using a-frame to build it. I have a bizarre problem. I seem to be able to get aframe to play a video inside a videosphere and correctly display every second of it the first time I enter a new scene, but whenever I exit from it and try to enter it again, only the sound works as supposed. I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong in the loading of the video or something
I'm collecting the path to the video from a json file in which I describe what each rooms contains (they may have interactable pins for 16:9 video, images and the sort, and also pins that simply load a new scene).
After loading the json, I set the source of the videosphere, name image360, as such:
document.getElementById("image360").setAttribute('src', "#" + jsonArray.zones[zoneID].locations[locationID].name);
I then play the video using the following code :
video = document.querySelector('#' + jsonArray.zones[zoneID].locations[locationID].name);
video.muted = false;
video.addEventListener("ended", videoEnded);
video.play();
The event listener I add to the video takes care of taking the user back to the previous scene once the video ends, which I do using this code:
//This function is called immediately after the end of a 360 video. Thus it first starts by obtaining the scene it should load after the end of the scene
var thisEl = document.querySelector('#' + jsonArray.zones[zoneID].locations[locationID].name);
var currentLocation = jsonArray.zones[zoneID].locations[locationID];
var locationToReturnTo = currentLocation.locationToReturnTo;
var zoneToReturnTo = currentLocation.zoneToReturnTo;
//With the information obtained, the room is then loaded
generateRoom(zoneToReturnTo, locationToReturnTo);
//After loading the room, time to generate the correct pins
generatePins(zoneToReturnTo, locationToReturnTo);
I'm truly at a loss here, and have no idea why this doesn't work. I should note that javascript and aframe are not my area of expertise at all, I just had to pick up this project after a former colleague of mine, who was working on it, left the company abruptly, so excuse me if I'm making a basic mistake.
Thanks in advance.
Switching videos directly on a entity may not work properly:
document.querySelector("a-video").setAttribute("src", "vid.mp4")
because of the current tmp <video> handling.
You should try using the assets management system:
<a-assets>
<video id="vid" src="derby.mp4"></video>
</a-assets>
<!-- Scene. -->
<a-plane src="#vid"></a-plane>
JS
(#vid).setAttribute("src", "newvid.mp4")
I want to make a sound effect for my buttons, so when the user clicks it, it goes 'ding'. I have a 1.6 second MP3 file I would like to play upon each click.
I have not started using java-script but everywhere I look, I need java-script to run this. I thought it might be able to be set up like background music.
I figure adding an example of my own code would not help here. I think an example of this will do, and I would be able to understand it reasonable clearly.
Thanks in advance!
This is not very hard. Here is a minimal example:
(Enjoy the Free Software Song)
var button = document.querySelector('button'),
audio = null;
button.addEventListener('click', handler, false);
function handler() {
audio = new Audio('https://www.gnu.org/music/FreeSWSong.ogg');
audio.play();
}
<button>Play</button>
Three part question...
I'm using http://syddev.com/jquery.videoBG/index.html for HTML 5 video background on my site. Works perfectly! However I have some additional functions I want to add on but not quite sure how to pull it off.
1_ I would like to add a button to mute/unmute audio. I'm not that great at jquery so what I'm looking for is what I need to add to the existing code to make it happen and what I need to put in the place where I want the actual button to go. I'm guessing I need to add some mute option to...
$('.bg').videoBG({
position:"fixed",
zIndex:0,
mp4:'_video/ClimbBG.mp4',
ogv:'_video/ClimbBG.ogv',
webm:'_video/ClimbBG.webm',
poster:'_images/ClimbBG.jpg',
opacity:1,
fullscreen:true,
});
Then some function/code in the spot I want the button to be?
2_ I would like to have a different random video load each time the site is loaded. Maybe even have a new video play after the first one is finished?
Example...This site loads a different video when the page is refreshed ( cabin-time.com )
3_ Not super important but I've noticed a lot of people who use video backgrounds have little dots in the video (cabin-time.con is one example). I'm guessing this is to reduce file size? Most likely done in Final Cut? How do I add this into my video and does it really reduce file size?
Thanks!!!
Unfortunately, VideoBG does not support mute, so you can't just 'add mute option' to it, you'll need to make it yourself.
Here are some points to get you started, edit the videoBG.js, to add a 'muted' attribute ( http://syddev.com/jquery.videoBG/jquery.videoBG.js )
......
// video element
var $video = $('<video/>');
$video.css('position','absolute')
.css('z-index',options.zIndex)
.attr('poster',options.poster)
.attr('muted',options.muted)
.css('top',0)
.css('left',0)
.css('min-width','100%')
.css('min-height','100%');
.......
// these are the defaults
$.fn.videoBG.defaults = {
mp4:'',
ogv:'',
webm:'',
poster:'',
autoplay:true,
loop:5,
sclae:false,
position:"absolute",
opacity:1,
textReplacement:false,
zIndex:0,
width:0,
height:0,
muted:false
Now you can add muted:true to your properties
For HTML5 Audio, let's say you have a list of two songs you want to play. Currently I have it set up so that when the current song stops playing, it loads the new song and plays it. I want to have it so that it loads the next song while the current song is finishing, maybe 20 seconds before the current song finishes. I tried to change the src attribute for the audio object while the song is playing, but that just immediately stops playback for the current song. Is there some other method that allows me to preload the next song while the current song is playing?
You could use jQuery to create a jQuery object:
var nextSong = document.createElement('audio'); //Creates <audio></audio>
nextSong = $(nextSong); //Converts it to a jQuery object
$(nextSong).attr('autoplay') = false; //You don't want this dynamically loaded audio to start playing automatically
$(nextSong).attr('preload') = "auto"; //Make sure it starts loading the file
$(nextSong).attr('src') = url_to_src; //Loads the src
This should start load the song into an element in the browser's memory and when the song is over, call something like:
$(audio).replace(nextSong);
This isn't tested. You probably don't even need jQuery.
This may work without jQuery:
var nextSong = document.createElement('audio');
nextSong.autoplay = 'false';
nextSong.preload = 'auto';
nextSong.src = url_to_src;
Give it a whirl and let me know!
This might be off the mark, but have you tried calling the element's load() method?
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/video.html#loading-the-media-resource
Edit:
Ah, I think I misunderstood the problem. You want to play two songs back to back in the same media element? I'm not sure how feasible that is... it might be easier to place each song in its own Audio element. You could always dynamically generate these, if you're worried about flexibility.