# Playing a wav file in RoR

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/playing-a-wav-file-in-ror/99709>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 25, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/playing-a-wav-file-in-ror/99709 "2006-07-25T02:08:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![jim\_dandy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@jim\_dandy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jim_dandy)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/playing-a-wav-file-in-ror/99709/1 "2006-07-25T02:08:42Z")

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Hi RoR Folks,

Have a MySQL database with a blob datytype with .wav files loaded into  
them. Would like to have a button on a form that toggles between play  
and pause when clicked and will play the .wav file.

Any suggestions on the best way to implement this?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![jim\_dandy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@jim\_dandy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jim_dandy)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/playing-a-wav-file-in-ror/99709/2 "2006-07-25T02:31:33Z")

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> Have a MySQL database with a blob datytype with .wav files loaded into  
> them. Would like to have a button on a form that toggles between play  
> and pause when clicked and will play the .wav file.
> 
> Any suggestions on the best way to implement this?

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**Author:** ![jim\_dandy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@jim\_dandy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jim_dandy)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/playing-a-wav-file-in-ror/99709/3 "2006-07-25T02:38:01Z")

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I believe from the server, you can just use sendfile.

This Flash player should load in the full file but only pause when  
the user wants, like how YouTube works.  
[http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/](http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/)  
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You’ll need to see if it can do wav in addition to mp3.

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**Author:** ![jim\_dandy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@jim\_dandy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jim_dandy)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 11:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/playing-a-wav-file-in-ror/99709/4 "2006-07-25T23:01:17Z")

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Thanks for the excellent suggestions.

I’m still not clear how to have the source of a .wav file a blob column  
in a MySQL database table.

Any ideas?

Thanks Again for the help.

Dan W. wrote:

> > Have a MySQL database with a blob datytype with .wav files loaded into  
> > them. Would like to have a button on a form that toggles between play  
> > and pause when clicked and will play the .wav file.
> > 
> > Any suggestions on the best way to implement this?
> 
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**Author:** ![jim\_dandy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@jim\_dandy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jim_dandy)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/playing-a-wav-file-in-ror/99709/5 "2006-07-25T03:06:22Z")

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YouTube uses flash as well.