SoundManager is a Javascript Sound API which  effectively maps most of the native sound capabilities of Flash 8 to Javascript.

It enables you to control sound in a cross-browser/platform environment, using a language you already know.

Sound Manager

A sample SoundManager code would be:

soundManager.createSound('myNewSound','/path/to/some.mp3');
soundManager.play('myNewSound');
soundManager.setVolume(’myNewSound’,50);

You see that it is really easy. This JavaScript Flash Sound API has other powerful controls like:

  • stream
  • autoplay
  • onid3 - for ID3 tag displaying
  • whileplaying
  • and more..

Using SoundManager, you can easily create sound based web applications or more interactive background sounds for non-Flash websites.