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This page contains information and help for users who want to know how to play a sound, music, or other audio file. See the sound card help and support page if your sound is not working.

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To play a sound, music, or other audio file in Windows requires that you use a media player program that is capable of playing that audio file. Below is a listing of different audio formats and media players that are capable of playing them.

Playing .AIFF, .ASF, .AU, .CDA, .MID, .MP3, .WAV, and .WMA audio files

Microsoft Windows comes with the Microsoft Windows Media Player (shown in the picture) that is capable of playing .AIFF, .ASF, .AU, .CDA, .MID, .MP3, .WAV, and .WMA audio files.

To open Windows Media Player and play the file, follow the steps below.

1. Click the Start button.
2. Go to Programs, Accessories, and Entertainment.
3. Click Windows Media Player.

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In Windows 10, open the Start menu, and scroll down to the 'W' section to find Windows Media Player.

Once it is running, select Open from the file menu, then browse to the location of the audio file. Alternatively, you can drag-and-drop the audio file onto Windows Media Player.

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You can select multiple audio files at once and drag them to the Windows Media Player to play all of the files selected. For help with selecting multiple files, see: How to select or highlight multiple files and folders.

You can also double-click the file or insert the CD with the audio files to start playing the file immediately. However, if the audio file is associated with a different program it may not open in Windows Media Player.

Playing .AIFF, .AMR, .AU, .GSM, .MIDI, .WAV audio files

Apple QuickTime (shown in the image) is the Apple macOS default media player and also a popular media player for Microsoft Windows users to play .MOV files. Apple QuickTime is the recommended media player for .DV and .MOV files, however, is also capable of playing .AVI and .FLC files.

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To open Apple QuickTime in Microsoft Windows, follow the steps below.

1. Click Start.
2. Go to Programs, QuickTime.
3. Click QuickTime Player.

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In Windows 10, click Start, and scroll down to the 'Q' section to find the QuickTime Player program.

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If QuickTime Player is not found, it is not installed on your computer. See the QuickTime definition for a link to download and install this program.

Once QuickTime is running, you can open the audio file by clicking File, Open in the top menu, then browsing to the location of the file. You can also drag the audio file and drop it on the QuickTime window.

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You can select multiple audio files at once and drag them to the Apple QuickTime to play all of the files selected. For help with selecting multiple files, see: How to select or highlight multiple files and folders.

You can also double-click the audio file to start playing the file immediately. However, if the file is associated with a different program, it may not open in Windows Media Player.

Playing .ASF, .CDA, .RA, .WAV, .WMA

RealPlayer is capable of playing the audio formats mentioned above, and other audio formats. This program does not come pre-installed with all versions of Microsoft Windows, so if you're attempting to play these files, you need to download and install RealPlayer. The download link is on the RealPlayer site.

Once RealPlayer is installed on your computer, it's found in the Start menu under Programs or All Programs. To play an audio file, click File, select Open, and browse to the location of the file. Or, you can drag the file to the RealPlayer window.

You can also double-click the file to start playing the file immediately. However, if the audio file is associated with a different program, it may not open in RealPlayer.

Other recommended Media Players

VLC media player

VLC media player is an extremely powerful, open-source, and free software program capable of playing AAC, AC3, DTS, MP3, WMA, Vorbis, and many more. The program is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, BeOS, and many more platforms.

If you're having trouble viewing an audio file or want a different media player, you can download this program at the official VLC website.

Winamp

Another excellent media player in Winamp, which is also capable of playing several of the audio files mentioned above. This program is at the official Winamp website.

Additional information

• See our media player, movie, sound, definitions for further information and related links.

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Sometimes you just need to start a video playing by some user interaction on the page other than clicking right on that video itself. Perhaps a “Play Video” button of your own creation lives on your page and you want to start that video when that button is clicked. That’s JavaScript territory. And if that video is a YouTube or Vimeo video, we’ll need to make use of the APIs they provide. No problem.

For these examples, we’ll assume you’ve already picked out a video and you’re going to put it on the page in an

For YouTube

1. Make sure the iframe src URL has ?enablejsapi=1 at the end

Like this:

I also put an id attribute on the iframe so it will be easy and fast to target with JavaScript.

2. Load the YouTube Player API

You could just link to it in a <script>, but all their documentation shows loading it async style, which is always good for third-party scripts, so let’s do that:

3. Create a global function called onYouTubePlayerAPIReady

This is the callback function that the YouTube API will call when it’s ready. It needs to be named this.

It’s likely you have some structure to your JavaScript on your page, so generally I’d recommend just having this function call another function that is inside your organizational system and get going on the right track right away. But for this tutorial, let’s just keep it soup-y.

4. Create the Player object

This is the object that has the ability to control that video. We’ll create it using the id attribute on that iframe in our HTML.

Another callback!

5. Create the “player ready” callback and bind events

We named this function when we created the player object. It will automatically be passed the event object, in which event.target is the player, but since we already have a global for it let’s just use that.

Here we bind a simple click event to an element on the page with the id #play-button (whatever custom button you want) and call the player object’s playVideo method.

All Together Now

And that’ll do it! Here’s a demo:

See the Pen Play Button for YouTube by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) on CodePen.

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I used a little SVG templating in there for the buttons just for fun.

For Vimeo

1. Make sure the iframe src URL has ?api=1 at the end

I also put an id attribute on the iframe so it will be easy and fast to target with JavaScript.

2. Load the “froogaloop” JS library

The Vimeo player API actually works by sending commands through postMessage right to the iframe. You don’t need the froogaloop library to do that, but postMessage has some inherent complexities that this library (by Vimeo themselves) makes way easier. Plus it’s only 1.8kb so I’d recommend it.

3. Create the player object

We target the iframe by the id attribute we added. Then we create the player using the special froogaloop $f.

4. Bind events

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All we have to do now is call methods on that player object to play and pause the video, so let’s call them when our play and pause buttons are clicked.

All Together Now

That’ll do it for Vimeo. Here’s a demo:

See the Pen Pause / Play Buttons for Vimeo Videos by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) on CodePen.

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You can do much more with the APIs for both of these services. It can be pretty fun, just dive in!