# Music from a file
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/music-from-a-file/48335
**Category:** General
**Created:** [12 July 2021 19:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/music-from-a-file/48335 "2021-07-12T19:54:40Z")
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### Author:  [@Jackob25](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Jackob25)
#### Post date: [12 July 2021 19:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/music-from-a-file/48335/1 "2021-07-12T19:54:40Z")
I'm not sure the best way to make a system that pauses, plays and restarts music from a sound file that's on the machine. This is what I have so far and I can't get it to work... I have scrolled through and keep finding people using the http node(s) and I wanted to use the 'file-in' and 'audio-out' nodes. I haven't found anyone whose had experience with this, and I know i'm missing something but after hours of this and not being able to figure it out...if anyone can just point me in the direction of what to read then I think I can get it from there.
```auto
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```
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### Author:  [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)
#### Post date: [12 July 2021 20:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/music-from-a-file/48335/2 "2021-07-12T20:11:42Z")
Hi, in order to make code more readable and importable it is important to surround your code with three backticks
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`like this`
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You can edit and correct your post by clicking the pencil icon.
See this post for more details - [How to share code or flow json](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-share-code-or-flow-json/506)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [10 September 2021 20:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/music-from-a-file/48335/3 "2021-09-10T20:12:10Z")
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