music help

[kpac]

Why do you want to use a background sound anyway?

[Geek-9pm]

Here is a site that explains the possibilities.
http://allwebco-templates.com/support/S_script_music.htm

What it says is basically what he was already told. For some audio formats you need a plug in. For the formats already supported by your browser, not plug-in is needed.

Or, you can put an object into your page that loads a flash player on demand. The should be used as a 'click here' thing to let the visitor decide if they want your background music.

When I used to put sound on eBay, the only thing I could use was the AU format that is supported by Java. I would also have tout the proper JS things into my web page with the absolute utl for all the objects. The ebay page could only have HTML, the sound objects had to be on my own web space. At that time there was no easy way to put MP3 sound into a eBay page. It had to conform to the standards of that time. It would work because most users would have the Java VM on the PC and the browser would use the Java code to produce sound. So no plug-ins were needed. 

[BC_Programmer]

So no plug-ins were needed. 

The java VM was and is a plugin/extension for each browser.

[Geek-9pm]

The java VM was and is a plugin/extension for each browser.

Correct. And the user seldom knows it. But for Flash you need a plug-in unless the user has already done it. Still, some special decoders require a spacial flavor of Flash, So it has to be downloaded 'on the fly.'  (Pun not intended.)

I used to use the wimpy MP3 player. It is really a custom Flash thing in Java. It would load itself so fast the the user was seldom aware that it was a custom plug-in from Adobe done in Java.

http://www.wimpyplayer.com/

[Quantos]

Well, a plug in and an embedded object are two completely different monsters.

<edit>  One runs client side while the other runs server side, for example.  </edit>

[BC_Programmer]

Well, a plug in and an embedded object are two completely different monsters.

<edit>  One runs client side while the other runs server side, for example.  </edit>

They both run client-side- an embedded object basically embeds a music file, a picture, video, etc, into a page, and let's the browser figure out how to handle it. but whatever it decides, will be on the client side- for example, with embed, it doesn't work in either FF or Opera without a media player plugin; Internet Explorer uses Windows Media player by default. an embedded object could be said to be data that may (or may not) require a specific type of plugin to use. for example, you could embed an XML document, but it won't do a lot of good unless the browser knows how to deal with it.

[Geek-9pm]

Server side FLASH. 

Flash Media Development Server: free
Easily develop and test your Flash Media Server applications with this free edition. It supports all of the features of Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5 but is limited to ten simultaneous streams.
FLASH MEDIA SERVER 3.5 FAQ   

[BC_Programmer]

Flash Media server- not server side flash. At least, I don't think so.

Adobe already has a server side product- ColdFusion. Well... Macromedia did, so now Adobe does. Wonder if they managed to screw it up like they did the other macromedia products.

[Quantos]

They both run client-side- an embedded object basically embeds a music file, a picture, video, etc, into a page, and let's the browser figure out how to handle it. but whatever it decides, will be on the client side- for example, with embed, it doesn't work in either FF or Opera without a media player plugin; Internet Explorer uses Windows Media player by default. an embedded object could be said to be data that may (or may not) require a specific type of plugin to use. for example, you could embed an XML document, but it won't do a lot of good unless the browser knows how to deal with it.

That's interesting to note, it makes sense now that I think about it.  I had just assumed that the embedded object would run from server side.

[nymph4]

I found this on the web but I need some help with it?

<object classid="classID"
  width="n"
  height="n"
>
  <param name="URL" value="url"/>
  <param name="autoStart" value="true|false"/>
  <param name="uiMode" value="none|mini|full"/>
</object>

I have my web pages and the audio file   beach.wav    all in the same directory.
Now what do I neet do do to this code so it will work with internet explorer  and firefox???

Or can it work for both for playing a  wav file on my page???

[kpac]

If you had read the tutorial I gave you, you would know. Have you something against reading tutorials?

http://w3schools.com/media/media_browsersounds.asp

[nymph4]

Ok the code I got from your web site says

<embed
src="beatles.mid"
width="50%"
height="50%">
</embed>

And it goes between the body tag is all of this right?

[BC_Programmer]

Ok the code I got from your web site says

<embed
src="beatles.mid"
width="50%"
height="50%">
</embed>

And it goes between the body tag is all of this right?

Did you try it?

Did it work?

[nymph4]

Ok I found it

<object
height="50%"
width="50%"
classid="clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95">
<param name="AutoStart" value="1" />
<param name="FileName" value="liar.wav" />
</object>

And it goes between the body tag.

What browsers is this good for?

[kpac]

To make it work in all browsers, place the <embed> tag between the <object> tag.