How to make play/stop buttons for iframe audio? - audio

I need to make audio players from soundcloud links, which can't be played by audio element, they need an iframe.
I found a lot of tutorials how to make custom play/stop buttons for iframe video. Unfortunately they don't work for iframe audio. Is there a way to make those buttons for iframe audio, too?

Soundcloud embed links displays as player with play or pause button. https://soundcloud.com/pages/embed

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Download button for HTML5 Audio

How do I get the download button to show on HTML5 audio?
I have seen many articles explaining how to hide the download button. But in my case, I need to show the button.
It's not intended for you to have control over the presentation of the controls of the built-in media player.
While browsers do provide some things you can manipulate via CSS, this isn't really the best way.
If you want to ensure that a download button is present, you need to implement it yourself.
<a href="/path/to/media/file.webm" download>Download</a>

Don't download mp3 on page load - jplayer

I am using jplayer and it loads all mp3 files on page load. Its not only slowing down page loading but also eating up bandwidth. Is there a way that jplayer downloads and play mp3 after user clicks play button. OR do I have to use a player that will stream audio files.
There is a preload option in jPlayer:
The jPlayer constructor option jPlayer({preload}) is used to control
when jPlayer begins downloading new media. Some browsers will begin
the download for the whole media when the preload option is "metadata".
Others will require that "auto" is used. The only way to ensure
download does not begin automatically is to use the preload option "none".
Remember that, the media may not download as it depends on the browser
you are using. Mobile browser such as Mobile Safari on iOS 4.2 require
a gesture before any media is downloaded or played. ie., The user must
press a button to initiate the load or play operations the 1st time.
jPlayer-option-preload
Alternatively you can leave the player without mp3 for initial page load and only add it when the user clicks play. See this demo for an example of loading media to the player: http://jplayer.org/latest/demo-02-jPlayerPlaylist/

Spotify Play Button control via browser extension

can I control (play & pause) a Spotify Play button with a browser extension?
The play button is inside an iframe. If browser extensions can get at content inside iframes, then I guess so.
This question is quite generic - why don't you give it a try and find out?

How can I use a UIWebview to load content from a asp.net website dynamically loading .mp4 video and get the video to play?

I have a client that has a website. The website current allows users to login and search for and play .mp4 video. The list of playlist is created dynamically where values are stored in a sql server 2008 database. My client's site is already built for smartphone utilization and did not want to recreate an iphone app. Besides it would mean loading thousands of video. Instead I thought I would use the UIWebview to load the website. This seemed to work well. However, when you try to click on and play video within the UIWebview nothing happens. This is not the case if we launch the mobile website within the apple mobile safari browser. The vide plays by kicking off in the iPhone video player. Is there any way to accomplish this same functionality with a uiwebview? Any guidance or help is appreciated.
UIWebView will play video using <video> if everything is set up correctly, either remote files or local files will work (if they are the correct format).
What does your video tag look like? In particular your src.
If you want to, for example, play an inline video the html5 for that would be something like
<video id="theVideo" controls width="280" height="160" src="yourVideo.mp4" webkit-playsinline></video>
And it would be necessary in the UIWebView to set this line
self.webView.allowsInlineMediaPlayback = YES;
Or you can also explicitly load the media player, but doing everything in HTML5 is neat and tidy and easy.

Easiest way to sound of an audio file for notification purposes on a website?

It has to work on IE8 and above, and the rest of the modern browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Opera).
Related question:
How to play a notification sound on websites?
I've tried using the Yahoo! Media Player, but it refuses to pick up on my .mp3 links despite them looking like:
<a id="wolf-blue" href="/Public/audio/wolf.mp3">a</a>
Assuming I have a .mp3 file and I want to play it when a timer reaches 0, what do you suggest I use to play this sound file? I do not want to show my users any sort of player UI, just play the sound.
You'll want to check out jPlayer. It's an HTML5 Audio player that has fallback to Flash for browsers that don't support HTML5.
You can use CSS to completely customize the player, including hiding it from view.

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