How do you code your web page to play a audio file like .wma or .wav etc.?
I know you embed for flash but I haven't been able to find a similar way to do it with audio. I've seen it on many sites where it has a stop/play/pause button but am lost and burnt on searching for solutions so I humbly ask for help now. Thank you very much in advanced.

Simple answer, don't bother.
People hate sounds when webpages load. It's one of the main things that causes people to instantly close their browser windows before they've even read the title. I do it all the time.

The only exception to this rule is if you're providing a specialist sound site, and you want to provide 'sound bites' to your users or something. In which case it's usually better to link to the sound file and let the user play it in their preferred player.

EDITED; suppose to be a topc

The sound playing in the background its verra CHEESY!

No I want to place a mp3 for people to choose to listen if they are enclined.

I just want the applet or plug in or whatever you need to place the play/stop/pause buttons so they can listen.

Try this: (Note: You will have to change the veriables to suit your needs i.e. width="whatever" etc.) Also don't forget to change the "filename" "value" and "src" to "yourmovie.avi" not "madmax.avi"

<object id="MediaPlayer1" width="240" height="252"
classid="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,4,5,715"
type="application/x-oleobject">
<param name="autostart" value="false">
<param name="filename" value="madmax.avi">
<param name="showcontrols" value="true">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="true">
<embed type="application/x-mplayer2"
pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/"
src="madmax.avi"
width="240"
height="252"
autostart="0"
showcontrols="1"
showstatusbar="1">
</embed>

The other easy way to do it is to add the movie to your root folder and put a link like this to it:

<p>Here's my <a href="madmax.mov">movie</a>. You can also add this to an image or screen shot of the movie playing to make it more interesting than just a text link.

That way people can click it if they like or not.

Hope this helps!

Kaiman