# Play audio without sound

**URL:** <https://discourse.threejs.org/t/play-audio-without-sound/30171>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** audio\
**Created:** [September 23, 2021, 2:14am UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/play-audio-without-sound/30171 "2021-09-23T02:14:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 2:33am UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/play-audio-without-sound/30171/8 "2021-09-23T02:33:58Z")

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You need the user to interact with the page before any sound will play, think along the lines of a prompt button

here’s something to read so you understand a little more:

> [@Audio stopped playing in latest Chrome update](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/audio-stopped-playing-in-latest-chrome-update/2769):
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> Hi, This site launches a song, and an analyser that makes the lyrics react to certain frequencies in it: When I first started development (~a month ago) it played fine everytime. As of recently, with no change to the audio and analyser code, I can oinly siccessfully play it if I open DevTools. What could it be? I’m SMH. Thanks,

> [@Not sound in a mp4 file into webGL/ three.js project](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/not-sound-in-a-mp4-file-into-webgl-three-js-project/10210):
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> Hi Sorry for my ignorance but I am starting with the three,js projects. Since I added a Video loop in mp4 ( without sound) in my three.js project and it worked fine but after that I added one sound to this mp4 file and now I can see the Video Loop but not can hear its sound, for it, Coul anybody help me to fix it? Thanks for your time Best Regards Castana

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