Music on my site. HELP PLEASE!

[Kristen]

I have a site at angelfire.
I have no clue about getting sound and music files onto it.

Do I download the music from a site? Okay and if I do that, will it get stored in a file on my hard drive? What form will it be in? I know that images are in jpg and gif but I have no clue about sounds and music.

I know how to upload the file onto my site.
But, what are the tags I have to put around it to finaly get it to play?

These are a lot of Q's I know but I hope someone can help.

[whkoh]

I don't think you and get MP3s and the likes on a major web server anymore :( You can't really blame them, they're afraid that people'll be abusing them...You may upload them on smaller servers, if you find it. The best solution is to do away with music (background or not) as some people may find it annoying.

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[Kathryn]

Kristen, I have an angelfire site too and put music on with midi files which are played by the windows media player. Have a look at my site and email me from there if I can help. http://www.angelfire.com/journal/collievale

[whkoh]

Mp3 conversion to midi takes a lot of space. My advice? Don't do it. It's against your FWP's Terms of Agreement, anyway.

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Network Engineer
Contact: whkoh@apexmail.com , whkoh@mailandnews.com , whkoh@020.co.uk

[origamij]

Kristen,
Music for your webpage will either be midi or wav. MP3's take way too much room to be practible. I fought with the same question and discovered an easy answer. Uploud your music file to where your files are stored and then insert this into your html right below your background setup <bgsound src="YOURFILENAME" loop="1">. Make sureyou include the extension (.midi/.wav) to the file name. If you want to have the sound play continuously change the "1" to "infinent" but this will annoy most of your visitors so I don't recommend it. You can view/hear mine at http://flodderkids.8m.net/home.html

[jonirvine]

As people have mentioned, music on your site can be in the formats .wavand .midi, but under usual circumstances having these on your page will slow it down dramatically. (Because of their size)

On option is to use Flash to play sound. (www.wu-wear.co.uk) uses this method. The sounds are actually compressed into the movie.

Doesn't seem to wokr in Netscape though?

Jon

[t3mul3nt]

>>Mp3 conversion to midi takes a lot of space.

it would also take a miraculous piece of software that could take a stereo mix and convert it all to a type0 standard midi file. it is almost impossible from an audio engineering standpoint. there's rudimentary pitch-midi software, but that's only going to work on a single lead vocal or instrument.

>My advice? Don't do it.

i second that. embedded midi files are the cheesiest things since those "send us an email" moving envelope gifs that still to this day surface on christian bake sale sites from duluth, minnesota. midi is not sound, it's just the roll of paper that goes through your player piano... so that tear-jerking rendition of the backstreet boys seminal classic "girl, you da bomb, wanna take you to my prom" is just going to sound like a casio keyboard stuck in demo mode at your local walmart.

i am usually listening to music anyways when i'm on the web, either from a cd, realplayer, or something else, so interrupting my litening of choice with something else is just plain rude, especially if it's not the main focus of your site.

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