[thelist] Here's One: Background Music

[David Dorward]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:17:27 -0400
"Gina K. Anderson" <gina at sitediva.com> wrote:

> 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?

AFAIK Mozilla needs a plugin to play any form of music (without one I
haven't run across any background music including the time I tested a
site that had a midi file linked to it) - this is why I don't have
such a plug in installed (and I don't have flash either). Given the
unpopularity of unannounced sound and the problems of maintaining a so
called background sound across multiple pages without restarting - I
would very strongly advise to just provide downloadable samples.

Whatever solution you end up going with, it is impossible to get the
music to "'just play' no matter what."

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