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**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** web-audio, audio-loader, audio\
**Created:** [December 10, 2020, 4:44am UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/three-positionalaudio-and-htmlaudioelement/21446 "2020-12-10T04:44:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:**  [@Quan\_Le](https://discourse.threejs.org/u/Quan_Le)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 4:44am UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/three-positionalaudio-and-htmlaudioelement/21446/1 "2020-12-10T04:44:12Z")
Hi everyone!
What is different between THREE.PositionalAudio and HTMLAudioElement?
I am working on a web app which has 3D model. Users are able to click on model and play clickSound.
What’s different between THREE.PositionalAudio:
`let soundListener = new THREE.AudioListener();`
`audioLoader = new THREE.AudioLoader();`
`let clickSound = new THREE.PositionalAudio(soundListener);`
`audioLoader.load( 'assets/audio/click.mp3', function ( buffer ) {`
`clickSound.setBuffer(buffer);`
`clickSound.setRefDistance(20);`
`clickSound.setLoop(false);`
`clickSound.setVolume(10);`
`clickSound.play();`
});
and HTMLAudioElement:
`let clickSound = new Audio('assets/audio/click.mp3');`
`clickSound.play().then(() => {});`
Thanks,
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**Author:**  [@Mugen87](https://discourse.threejs.org/u/Mugen87)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 8:59am UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/three-positionalaudio-and-htmlaudioelement/21446/2 "2020-12-10T08:59:55Z")
`THREE.Audio` and `THREE.PositionalAudio` are based on the Web Audio API which has significant advantages over ordinary HTML 5 audio elements. I suggest you google this topic since there are many existing resources with comparison.
In general, for UI sound effects you want to use `THREE.Audio` (since spatialization is not required).
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**Author:**  [@kohloth](https://discourse.threejs.org/u/kohloth)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2020, 12:10pm UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/three-positionalaudio-and-htmlaudioelement/21446/3 "2020-12-27T12:10:54Z")
Is there any way to make a THREE.PositionalAudio object skip to a given play position (i.e. 5 seconds in.)
Trying to do this:
`console.log(music) // Three.PositionalAudio object`
`music.context.currentTime = 5`
Throws an error saying that `currentTime` is read-only.
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**Author:**  [@kohloth](https://discourse.threejs.org/u/kohloth)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://discourse.threejs.org/t/three-positionalaudio-and-htmlaudioelement/21446/4 "2020-12-27T13:10:58Z")
Ah, found the solution here: [https://threejs.org/docs/#api/en/audio/Audio](https://threejs.org/docs/#api/en/audio/Audio)
I’ve used the `offset` property that THREE.PositionalAudio inherits from the THREE.Audio prototype.
`console.log(music); // Three.PositionalAudio object`
`music.offset = 5;`
`music.play() // Starts playing 5 seconds in`