In parallel with the popularity of videos on web, HTML5 video is already being used widely. And, for sound, HTML5 audio is gaining ground for sure.

AreWePlayingYet? is an initiative and open source test suite that aims to bring more harmony into HTML5 Audio implementations.

Using the suite, anyone can easily test HTML5 audio capabilities of a browser and find out the features supported/unsupported.

It is built by SoundCloud and also enables us to quickly add new tests (if wanted).

Few posts ago, we had mentioned SoundManager (WRD post link), a JavaScript API for controlling Flash sounds.

MooSound is a very similar API for MooTools (thanks to Ruslan for suggesting the resource).

MooSound’s poweful features let you reach almost every aspect of the flash sounds like:

• start, stop, pause
• ID3 information
• Filesize
• Loaded Bytes
• Duration
• Position
• Setting the volume
• Setting the pan
• Jump to feature

API is very well documented and a demo can be found at the homepage.