Sound controlling with JS

[dandart]

I'm trying to embed streaming sound in my web page by using <embed>, or <audio> or something.
How can I get Javascript to control the sound (eg start, stop, pause, rewind, forward, skip song, go back)?
I believe there are functions that you can pass, eg:
<embed id="whatever" />
...
document.getElementById('whatever').Play();

I also want to make it play a user-defined playlist....somehow...

But for the rest I have no idea.

Thank you.

[MrNobody]

To do all that will require the APPLET or OBJECT tag and a module able to be downloaded into the browser from a web site. The following is what you can do without getting into all those complexities:

http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/sh...d.php?t=196068

[dandart]

That doesn't help too much. All it tells you how to do is to play a sound using outdated browsers... with 2-browser support. I want this to be net-neutral to be honest... so FF3....etc...

Does anyone know of how to do the other things that I ask? I'd rather the embed method to be honest...

[MrNobody]

You're jumping to erroneous conclusions. I use the code shown in FF3 and it works perfectly.

[dandart]

I'm quite sure it does.
That was not my query.
I don't like using code that goes (If IE then this otherwise this)....
I wanted the code to control these sounds too, like all the controls, so I can create an Amarok-like control bar.

[rnd me]

I don't like using code that goes (If IE then this otherwise this)....
/QUOTE]

LOL!
you are using the wrong language then!
or is this the "i have a dream" post?

anyways,

since javascript CANNOT do what you want(it was never even a sparkle in Brendon's eye), you will have to use "non-standard" browser plugins to do the job.

look into the quicktime javascript API; they provide a small JS library that does those things (only for quicktime).
some of the newer flash video solutions provide their own javascript APIs as well, but were getting off topic at that point.

[MrNobody]

As I said, to do that will require the APPLET or OBJECT tag and a module able to be downloaded into the browser from a web site. Such is beyond the scope of a JavaScript forum.