[thelist] Here's One: Background Music

[nagrom]

i know you don't want plug-ins, but flash works as a reasonable mp3 player.
you could check if they have flash enabled, and if they do serve up a
teeny-little 1-1pixel movie that plays the sound clip.

wavs will work as backgrounds for PCs (dont know about macs) but tend to be
BIG files.

MIDI files will also work, but they dont actually contain any audio
themselves, just instructions to the sound card for which note to play, what
instrument to use, rhythm, tempo, etc. The better the person's sound card,
the better it will sound. But you can't rip a CD to MIDI, someone has to
create the MIDI instructions.

hope that helps,

nagrom
http://www.morgankelsey.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gina K. Anderson" <gina at sitediva.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 2:17 PM
Subject: [thelist] Here's One: Background Music


> 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)
>
>
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