Embedding music

[rendezvouscp]

Hello. I am trying to embed a music file into one page of my website. Right now I am using <embed src="../../Media/I'll Be There For You.mov" autostart="true" loop="true"> (that's straight from my website), but the white box with the "QuickTime Movie" shows up (which is just the single bar for controlling the music). I would like to have this disappear, so users can't see it, and I am interested in knowing how to have the music continue playing only through certain webpages. I've done some looking around, but I can't seem to find either solutions. Could anyone help?
–Chase

 

[mnkeybsness]

I don't know how to do this, but I'm going to speak freely...

Music playing on web pages is the 2nd most annoying thing on my list that any web page can use (the first is frames... oh how I hate frames).

 

[rainman::|:|]

I don't know how to do this, but I'm going to speak freely...

Music playing on web pages is the 2nd most annoying thing on my list that any web page can use (the first is frames... oh how I hate frames).

i agree. if i'm browsing normally, i'll just kill my speakers to end it. if i'm browsing at work, or listening to music already (which in itself is 90% of the time), i go to another site. It seems like a good idea until you consider two things: First, the song plays over and over, so you're asking the user to be there for less than 4:00 or so, or get annoyed. Secondly, you could be hijacking whatever else the user is listening to, which is *really* annoying. Just don't do it.

paul

 

[rendezvouscp]

I totally respect your POV's, I too hate sites that use music. So why am I doing it? Well, I need to do a little bit of testing, because I'm setting up a page about FRIENDS, and I would like to have "I'll Be There For You" playing in the background. I've never done it, so I'm curious too about how it's done. Another thing is that I wonder if there is a "control" (as in html) that you can use to soften the music. Or I could use QuickTime. Anyway...
–Chase

 

[rendezvouscp]

I figured out what I'm going to do. I'm using the code <embed src="../../Media/I'll Be There For You.mov" alt="" width="400" height="15" title="" autostart="True" loop="False"></embed> to allow the file to be embeded and give the user some control. Thanks.
–Chase

 

[Knox]

I figured out what I'm going to do. I'm using the code <embed src="../../Media/I'll Be There For You.mov" alt="" width="400" height="15" title="" autostart="True" loop="False"></embed> to allow the file to be embeded and give the user some control. Thanks.
–Chase

IMHO if you're going to use music on a webpage at all, you should make it so that it doesn't automatically start when the page is loaded (ie autostart="False"). This stops the problems of the music starting when either people are listening to other music, or they're browsing late at night with their speakers on.