[thelist] Here's One: Background Music

[Gina K. Anderson]

Fellow evolters,

Okay, I have a head-scratcher here concerning background music. It's been
*years* since I've put bg music on a page, but this site calls for it and I need
some help.

It's a Christian music site, and the client wants to load a different bg music
monthly--no biggie (going to use an ASP solution, loading new image or text
monthly too)---but how on earth do I get it from a CD to a background music
file? I know how to rip a cd song to like an mp3 or wav, windows media, etc--but
in order to have these files as bg music on a site, you'd need the plug in,
correct? You need a .midi for no plug-ins cross browser, right?? But isn't .midi
file a synthesized music file? Or can I use mp3's somehow now?

Obviously, I'm lost on this one--if you were doing this, how would you handle
it? I really don't want to resort to plug-ins, I'd rather the music 'just play'
no matter what. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Gina
(The Lost One)