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  • Bacon Bits
    Member
    • Jan 2004
    • 44

    background music

    alright, how do I put music (mp3) on my new site? This site is there because of the music. I've tried many different methods I've looked up on the internet, but a lot don't work... on some occasions, it played successfully but it stopped half-way through. Anyone have any sure-way methods?
  • Floris
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2001
    • 37767

    #2
    You can embed music, but you still need a third party plugin in order to play it. This is an end-user feature. Unless you can find streaming software that runs from your server that supports the .mp3 format. Otherwise make the .mp3 as music in a flash file - most browsers these days have flash player included.

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    • Bacon Bits
      Member
      • Jan 2004
      • 44

      #3
      alright, then my mission is clear - learn how to use flash.

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      • Bacon Bits
        Member
        • Jan 2004
        • 44

        #4
        um, after checking out flash, my mission is not so apparent... check out this subsite, and maybe it will give you insight into what I should do differently... (it's a small site used on the main page with iframes)




        yes, it's not one of my best songs, but oh well. Like I said, the results are different depending on the computer I try it out on. (internet speed) On this computer it only plays 10 seconds, but on others it goes through the whole thing. Any surefire ways you could give me aside from flash? Any different suggestions?
        Last edited by Bacon Bits; Sat 13 Mar '04, 5:54pm.

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        • spence
          Member
          • Jun 2002
          • 39

          #5
          Might you be interested in a Jukebox hack?

          It may not be what you are looking for, but then again...

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          • Bacon Bits
            Member
            • Jan 2004
            • 44

            #6
            well, yeah... I don't need a way to play the music anymore; the problem is the server downloading the music. As I said before, no matter how I try to play it, it always stops playing in the same spot; depending on the computer. Does anyone know how to avoid this? A different method of uploading, perhaps?

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            • Seanie
              Member
              • Jun 2003
              • 98

              #7
              couldn't you just add this into the header...

              Code:
              <bgsound src="music.mp3" loop="-1">
              Although MP3 on 56k modems would take forever to load....

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              • yecoo
                New Member
                • Oct 2003
                • 3
                • 3.0.0 'Gold'

                #8
                Originally posted by Seanie
                couldn't you just add this into the header...

                Code:
                <bgsound src="music.mp3" loop="-1">
                Although MP3 on 56k modems would take forever to load....
                yes,it's right.

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                • Bacon Bits
                  Member
                  • Jan 2004
                  • 44

                  #9
                  what does loop="-1" do?
                  I found a satisfactory way to play my music... by using embed and not hidden, at least people know that it's loading (as opposed to bgsound)
                  HTML Code:
                  <embed src="dolphin.mp3" autostart="true" hidden="false">
                  what is the compatibility of this tag with netscape? Should I care? I personally know no one who still uses netscape and I haven't used it in a long time.

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                  • Zachery
                    Former vBulletin Support
                    • Jul 2002
                    • 59097

                    #10
                    As long as they have a music player that also has a plugin for netscapre it should work.

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                    • Seanie
                      Member
                      • Jun 2003
                      • 98

                      #11
                      loop="-1" plays it on a loop

                      loop="2" will play it twice.... or whatever you want

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                      • Bacon Bits
                        Member
                        • Jan 2004
                        • 44

                        #12
                        say someone doesn't have a compatible plug-in... which one would you recommend? I'm looking for a good place to link from my site in case someone wants to download it.

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