# Adding sound/video with object tag

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-sound-video-with-object-tag/137322>\
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**Created:** [February 13, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-sound-video-with-object-tag/137322 "2005-02-13T16:34:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![mikken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@mikken](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mikken)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-sound-video-with-object-tag/137322/1 "2005-02-13T16:34:37Z")

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I have som problems adding sound to my webpage, mainly because i’m being difficult:

1. I don’t want it to open in a separate window
2. I don’t want to use flash
3. I don’t want to use the controller - i want to use my own graphics to control start/stop

I could use the \<embed\> tag, but since it’s not supported by w3c i try to avoid that.

That leaves me with the \<object\> tag, which i can’t understand anything of.

I don’t know what to put in the CodeBase, Code type, media type and certainly not in Class id properties of the tag.  
I don’t understand how to use the \<param\> either.

I have tried to search for tutorials on the net for this, but most of them refer to the embed tag, or doesn’t explain the properties or \<param\>.

Anyone knows anything about this, where i can find correct values for CodeBase/Code type/media type, or have links to pages that uses this tag?

The w3c explanation just confuses me.