I'd like to be able to play an audio while a form is loading. However, what I've found is that it's pretty challenging. If I go into the form code and add various code most doesn't work. What I've settled upon is inserting the following code to play a wav file:

<embed src="/images/audio/kevin.wav" controller="true" autoplay="true" autostart="True" />

There's a couple of problems. First, not all browsers natively support wav files. No idea why but when checking with my IE9 it doesn't play (microsoft format and microsoft browser - of course it wouldn't work - like i should be surprised). Interestingly, it works fine on my pc in Chrome. Doesn't work inside of my Firefox. Works on my mac inside of Safari.

Already tried using various MP3 plugins but they wouldn't work inside the form.

Any ideas? Suggestions? Hints?

Thanks,

Kevin

Unfortunately you won't find any viable option to play an audio file that works cross-browser. You could use a flash player, but that requires the user to have a Flash Plugin installed on his browser. A good read might be the HTML5 Audio article on w3schools, but again, it only works on HTML5 (so only newer browsers are supported).