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03-15-2001, 05:58 PM
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Hi,
What is the best format for playing intro music at the start of a web page, wav? mp3? Also, could I have the music fading up to start and then loop normally after that until they skip to the main page? Any help is appreciated! |
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03-15-2001, 07:40 PM
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There really is no straight forward answer to your question. Generally speaking the standard for music is midi files but more and more people are using mp3. It all depends on who you want to access your site and using which browser and which plugin or player.
Remember that although IE will allow the automatic playing of media files and depending on the version of media player will even play mp3, Netscape is not quite so friendly and may frustrate your viewers. To have the music fade in and then loop would probably be easiest to achieve with two statements, one single play with the fade in and one looping. [Edited by mhayes on 03-15-2001 at 09:07 PM]
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03-15-2001, 07:52 PM
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Usually if you want music you would go with a MIDI file.
There are a couple of things to consider. (1.) There are a bunch of people that despise music on a page and will run kicking and screaming from your site. I personally view it as something non-professional but to each his own. (2.) The other thing to consider is that you IE and Netscape use two different tags to accomplish sound. IE uses the <bgsound> & Netscape uses the <embed> tag. To get it to play in both browsers, you would have to code it like this: <Head> <embed src="midifile" autostart=true hidden=true> </embed> <noembed><bgsound="midifile" loop="1 (or however many times you want to)></noembed> </Head> Notice that the embed tag has to be closed while the bgsound tag does not. It should also go between the head tags. The only way to keep the song playing as the change pages would be to use frames for your page with that frame always showing. |
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03-15-2001, 09:06 PM
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I agree with mairving, unless it is just part of a "short" flash intro I quickly go somewhere else if I hear any music.
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