title: Play audio with Node.JS
body: <p>I'm currently using <a href="http://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html" rel="noreferrer"><code>child_process</code></a> and command-line <code>mplayer</code> to play audio on the local machine, with my Node.JS application. This works, but it's not really an excellent solution. My biggest issue is that it takes 500ms from mplayer is started to audio starts playing.</p>
  
  <p>Are there better ways to play audio? Preferably compressed audio, but I'll take what I can get.</p>