Play sound in Retool!

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Hey folks, we just launched a utils.playSound() API. You can demo it with this code:

utils.playSound('https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/3/success.mp3')

Thanks!

Feel free to post feedback here.

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Any sites where these sounds can be accessed royalty free?

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I honestly did my fair share of digging attempting to find a royalty free library that provides links to an MP3, but unfortunately no luck :smiling_face_with_tear:. Probably the easiest thing to do here would probably to sign up for a free cloud-storage that supports uploading MP3 files and grab the public link. I've had success with Cloudinary for projects in the past: Audio Transformations | Cloudinary

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@Kenny Can this be used for a file stored locally on an android device?

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Is this function available in a self-hosted Retool instance? When I try to use it I'm getting a "is not a function" error in the console.

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Hasn't made it to a Stable release yet, but it should be in Edge releases 3.50, 3.52. What are you running?

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Gotcha, that makes sense. We're running 3.33.26

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Is it possible to point the file source to be dynamic? I uploaded a CSV into Retool Storage, and an each item/row has an item and a column with a weblink to audio. I want to create a button in a detail view (on Mobile App) of an inventory view that actions the utils.playSound() and draw the link from the relevant item item.

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if we wanted to add like 'default_audio_mode' w 'mute' to users should this preferably be done as a user attribute or is storing it separately in like our own 'user_settings' table the more common and/or secure solution?