Beep On Loading Page

By JordanReiter Last update Nov 20, 2009 — Installed 98 times.


Script Summary: Does what it says on the tin -- plays a sound when the page loads.

Okay, so having this on all the time would be annoying, right? But sometimes -- particularly if you do website administration and run batch scripts or long queries -- the page can take a while to load, and you'd like to go to other tabs while it's loading.

When this is the case, activate this script. It plays a friendly "Punch" sound as soon as the page has loaded. Best of all, the sound is embedded right in the script; it's not pointing to an URL somewhere that might 404 on you.

Since security is a concern for people, I do want to reassure you that the long line you see starting with var beep= is really just a URL that encodes the data for the sound file. More details on data URI