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Playing an mp3 on a website

 
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Playing an mp3 on a website, in xhtml with css
helen
28 May, 2007 - 12:56 AM
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I'm hoping this is quite simple, I've setup a website for a local band to what they've asked for excluding one part. They would like to have an mp3 of them playing in the background when people view the site.

I've googled this and i've not had much luck with the results, what tag/attributes would I need to implement this please?

(Yes, I'm still relatively new to programming!).

Thank you for your help.
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28 May, 2007 - 06:26 AM
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The best way to do this would be to use a Flash movie that loaded in the .mp3 and played it.
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28 May, 2007 - 01:57 PM
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hey helen

try somthing like this its javascript and will play a bg sound that you point it to

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<script>
<!--
var sound1="first.mid"
var sound2="second.mid"
var sound3="third.mid"
var sound4="fourth.mid"
var sound5="fifth.mid"
var x=Math.round(Math.random()*4)
if (x==0) x=sound1
else if (x==1) x=sound2
else if (x==2) x=sound3
else if (x==3) x=sound4
else x=sound5
if (navigator.appName=="Microsoft Internet Explorer")
document.write('<bgsound src='+'"'+x+'"'+' loop="infinite">')
else
document.write('<embed src='+'"'+x+'"'+'hidden="true" border="0" width="20" height="20" autostart="true" loop="true">')
//-->
</script>
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28 May, 2007 - 02:41 PM
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If you're not good with Flash/ActionScript try this example:
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http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/flash_sound_button.asp

Just import another file and everything is working smile.gif
Have fun biggrin.gif
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28 May, 2007 - 06:16 PM
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Hi.
It's just a trick but it works good on IE
Just rename your song.mp3 to song.au
Then configure the background sound to play this song
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// In the header
<bgsound src="./Almost_A_Whisper.au" loop="1">

you can let javascript to select the current playing song if you want to.
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28 May, 2007 - 06:23 PM
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You can also embed a Windows Media Player into the HTML code and play the song that way. Windows Media Player can play native mp3 files.

How to embed a WMP in HTML.
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