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Anyone who has looked at the code I use for playing sound, music or dialog will notice that I use howler.js for playing sound. Now this New Year, I made a resolution to investigate more the the sound capabilities of BJS - and I have been looking at this tutorial . Now there is one feature that I can't see in the BJS that howler.js has - sound sprites. See here - scroll down to "Define and play a sound sprite" to see an example. All the sounds are contained in one file - but it is possible to play just parts of the file (and if you click the "Play Winner" button and then click the other two buttons you can play all three sounds at the same time - sounds get mixed). So why might this be useful? Well for playing what I call scene environment sounds - like doors opening and closing, footsteps fading away, a scream, a bell sounding, a dog howl etc. Now I have a little collection of these types of sound (between 15 and 20 sounds) the longest of which is about 9 secs and the shortest is 1.2 secs. so rather than load 15 separate files it would be nice to load just one file that I could play small parts of - saves clutter, and download requests. So am I missing/overlooking this type of functionality in BJS with sound? Or is it a feature that could be added? And as a side question, what compressed sound format is playable on all OSs, devices and browsers - or is that a fantasy? cheers, gryff