The invention discloses an audio control method and electronic equipment. The audio control method includes: acquiring an operation based on a first key; acquiring status information of the electronic equipment; judging whether the status, represented by the status information, of the electronic equipment meets a first preset condition or not to obtain a first judgment result; if the first judgment result is yes, judging whether the operation meets a second preset condition or not to obtain a second judgment result; if the second judgment result is yes, triggering a second instruction different from a first instruction; controlling a play unit to execute a second action represented by the second instruction. By adoption of the audio control method and the electronic equipment, the electronic equipment in a standby status can be controlled to execute corresponding operations according to the second instruction, and accordingly the problem that a user cannot execute any operations on an audio play program when the electronic equipment is in the standby status is solved.