# Suggest a wav or aiff player

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suggest-a-wav-or-aiff-player/184897>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 10, 2010, 6:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suggest-a-wav-or-aiff-player/184897 "2010-03-10T06:25:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![srikanth\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@srikanth\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/srikanth_j)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 6:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suggest-a-wav-or-aiff-player/184897/1 "2010-03-10T06:25:50Z")

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Hi,

Plz suggest me a player to play .wav or .aiff files. so that i can use  
it in my Ruby on Rails App.

Thanks,  
Srikanth

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**Author:** ![srikanth\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@srikanth\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/srikanth_j)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suggest-a-wav-or-aiff-player/184897/2 "2010-03-10T18:11:39Z")

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Srikanth J. wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Plz suggest me a player to play .wav or .aiff files. so that i can use  
> it in my Ruby on Rails App.

The server-side has nothing to do with this. Players exists client-side.  
Web browsers will typically rely on a plugin to play sound files. For  
instance on the Mac, QuickTime is the default player for these types of  
files. Windows will, of course, use Windows Media Player by default.

[http://www.w3schools.com/media/media\_browsersounds.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_browsersounds.asp)

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**Author:** ![srikanth\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@srikanth\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/srikanth_j)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suggest-a-wav-or-aiff-player/184897/3 "2010-03-11T06:28:09Z")

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Robert W. wrote:

> Srikanth J. wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Plz suggest me a player to play .wav or .aiff files. so that i can use  
> > it in my Ruby on Rails App.
> 
> The server-side has nothing to do with this. Players exists client-side.  
> Web browsers will typically rely on a plugin to play sound files. For  
> instance on the Mac, QuickTime is the default player for these types of  
> files. Windows will, of course, use Windows Media Player by default.
> 
> [http://www.w3schools.com/media/media\_browsersounds.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_browsersounds.asp)

Thanks a lot …  
this helped me so much…

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**Author:** ![srikanth\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@srikanth\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/srikanth_j)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/suggest-a-wav-or-aiff-player/184897/4 "2010-03-11T15:52:36Z")

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Srikanth J. wrote:

> Thanks a lot …  
> this helped me so much…

You should also be aware that supporting audio and video on the web is  
undergoing a significant change in the transition from HTML 4.01 to  
HTML5.

HTML5 includes a couple of new tags and . Several modern  
browsers (Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox, etc.) already have implemented  
support for these new tags. Although I’m not sure if everything is  
completely settled yet.

[http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag\_audio.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_audio.asp)  
[http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag\_video.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_video.asp)

Also several experiments are underway to support HTML5 video.

This one comes to mind:  
[http://www.youtube.com/html5](http://www.youtube.com/html5)