# Play/pause audio without using soundcloud

**URL:** https://forum.readymag.com/t/play-pause-audio-without-using-soundcloud/2775
**Category:** Custom code
**Created:** [April 13, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.readymag.com/t/play-pause-audio-without-using-soundcloud/2775 "2024-04-13T18:07:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Mandel\_Nallo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.readymag.com/mandel_nallo/32/1930_2.png) [@Mandel\_Nallo](https://forum.readymag.com/u/Mandel_Nallo)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.readymag.com/t/play-pause-audio-without-using-soundcloud/2775/1 "2024-04-13T18:07:56Z")

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Is there someone that could help me to figure out how to make a widget play/pause a short audio clip i have?

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### Author: ![neueMeta](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.readymag.com/neuemeta/32/92_2.png) [@neueMeta](https://forum.readymag.com/u/neueMeta)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2024, 7:05am UTC](https://forum.readymag.com/t/play-pause-audio-without-using-soundcloud/2775/2 "2024-04-16T07:05:05Z")

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have a look here for the basic setup:

> **[HTML5 audio Tag (Interactive Example)](https://www.quackit.com/html/html_editors/scratchpad/?example=%2Fhtml_5%2Ftags%2Fhtml_audio_tag)**
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> Edit and preview HTML code with this online HTML viewer. HTML5 audio Tag.

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### Author: ![Mandel\_Nallo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.readymag.com/mandel_nallo/32/1930_2.png) [@Mandel\_Nallo](https://forum.readymag.com/u/Mandel_Nallo)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2024, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.readymag.com/t/play-pause-audio-without-using-soundcloud/2775/3 "2024-04-16T13:57:06Z")

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Sorry, I am very unfamiliar with code. I am trying to link to an mp3 from Dropbox and it doesn’t seem to work.

 ![Screen Shot 2024-04-16 at 9.54.27 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/readymag/original/2X/d/d2d0db240c04f119b12e7e144e31125d2675bf2b.png)

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### Author: ![Samus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.readymag.com/samus/32/1146_2.png) [@Samus](https://forum.readymag.com/u/Samus)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2024, 6:33pm UTC](https://forum.readymag.com/t/play-pause-audio-without-using-soundcloud/2775/4 "2024-04-16T18:33:04Z")

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Try editing the tail of the dropbox URL from dl=0 to dl=1.

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### Author: ![Mandel\_Nallo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.readymag.com/mandel_nallo/32/1930_2.png) [@Mandel\_Nallo](https://forum.readymag.com/u/Mandel_Nallo)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2024, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.readymag.com/t/play-pause-audio-without-using-soundcloud/2775/5 "2024-04-16T19:10:26Z")

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Amazing, that worked. Thank you.

Is it possible to have the play/pause button customized to a picture?