Reference URL with JavaScript to play sound?

Question

Im using soundcloud dot com to upload my sounds. i want to press a button within my mobile application and have that sound play.

So basically i want my sound to be referenced from the URL that I am given when the button is pressed by the user.

I need to do it with Javascript only. No HTML 5 please. Any help is greatly appreciated cause this is Xtremely frustrating. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It's pretty simple to get started really:

function playSound(url) {
    var a = new Audio(url);
    a.play();
}

Use that as whatever event handler you want for your application. Of course, I'd hope you'd want to do more than just play (for example, maybe pause would be good too?), but it's a start.