eaglefeather — Tue, 02 May 2000 15:17:00 +0000

Thanks for the link Adam. Hadn't heard about Beatnik before. Looks real interestin'.

Cheers
Eaglefeather

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Mon, 01 May 2000 21:44:00 +0000

If your going to add music to your web pages use Beatnik, It’s that simple. And I don’t say that just because I’m a beatnik developer (well okay I do).

Beatnik has the most powerful format and compression strategy available. It also includes one of the best Java API’s for making interactive sound. Not to mention that it can be integrated into Flash for a full multimedia effect.

Beatnik uses a core program (plug-in) to assemble the available sounds, which means less of a download (much like MIDI). However it has advanced capabilities allowing for voice and other “real life” type sounds that MIDI was never good at. It’s not the easiest format to author however it’s by all means the most rewarding.

Check it out www.beatnik.com

ALWAYS PUT THE VISITOR IN CONTROL – ADD A MUSIC ON/OFF SWITCH.

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eaglefeather — Mon, 01 May 2000 17:28:00 +0000

A simple 1 min (.wav) file that I made useses 3.5 mg of space. A proper, 2 and a half to 3 min music recording could easily use twice to 3 x that amount. It would take forever to download, at least on my machine it would, and I'm running a 233 with a 56 kbps connection speed.

Having an "Autostart" for music is easy to write in HTML. To have an interactive control is just as easy.

Many people find Autostart music very annoying. I now surf with my volume control turned down very low.

If you really must have music in the background, I would suggest you use the search engines to find your tune. It is probably already on the net somewhere, all you have to do is find it. To have the music
autostart,
Netscape
<EMBED SRC="tune link" AUTOSTART="true">
IE
<BGSOUND SRC="tune link" Loop=0>(the loop command tells IE how many times to play the tune.

It is a good idea to include both of the above HTML on your site so no matter which browser visitor's are using they will be able to hear your tune. For that reason I will show the next bit the way I set it up for both browsers.

The HTML to include a control panel is:

One final note. Be very careful about copyright. Even if you figure out how to transfer the music from your CD to your web page, you would probably be in contravention of copyright law, and liable to the owner's of the copyright.

Cheers
Eaglefeather

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geo — Fri, 28 Apr 2000 20:48:00 +0000

lloyd is correct if u want background music,add user controls to turn off or maybe control the volume.

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vy22 — Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:07:00 +0000

yes I agree also,

Remeber the days we all used 16bit soundcards? Then some comedian would put a midi of Whitney Houston and it would sound terrible. Infact so bad your ears start bleeding. So out of desperation to get rid of the darn sqreech you leave the page!

That is as true as it gets!!

Lloyd Hassell — Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:50:00 +0000

I agree with the last 2 posts. Embedded music is annoying especially when you cant turn it off. If you still want to use it, maybe you should consider using Flash.

Jaiem — Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:41:00 +0000

I agree with Richard. I find background music very annoying!!

Maybe you could just make a like to a wave file and say something like "Click here for our theme song" or something like that.

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richjb — Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:57:00 +0000

Your situation may be different, but it is usually a very bad idea to add muic as a background to a web page.

Just a thought.

Richard

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Ken Elliott — Tue, 25 Apr 2000 19:44:00 +0000

Frank, in order to add background music to your website the cd music must be converted to a wav file and embedded. Of course this wave file is going to be a farely large file if you want it to sound like something less then an endless loop. So you can covert the file to realaudio (.ra) file or something, I don't have much experience with that.

To convert your cd to a wav file, you must obtain a cd ripper program, such as Audio Grabber and use it to rip the wav file from the cd. Then obtain real-media so you can convert the .wav to a .ra file. Then embed that in your webpage.

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