I agree with you - just recently I spent WAY too long trying to find a good free sound sample for a notification chime and integrate it into a cross-browser aud

I agree with you - just recently I spent WAY too long trying to find a good free sound sample for a notification chime and integrate it into a cross-browser audio object. Not sure if you are thinking of the implementation-end as well (aka javascript/HTML5/flash player of some variety) that can consume the api or just the api itself. What would have been the ideal solution for me would have been a JS script I could have included then simply instantiated with a sound (like 'bell chime') and exposes simple javascript controls like goTo, play, stop, pause etc and worked seamlessly cross-browser with HTML5 and flash fallback. I know sound players like this exist (minues he included sound bytes) but they all have the overhead of the UI for player controls.