Computer question - playing sound files

[Hecate]

being an audio freak I am using sound files around my web page.

There is no problem with the ones of the real player formate usually but all the other formats that I use when embedding them as a plug-in have the disadvantage of starting to play as soon as the page is opened. Having multipart audio stories though, this is totally not what I want.

Anyone know of a trick to stop the immediate playing? Or should I better just link and let people download at their pleasure?

Any hints , advise or preference would be appreciated

Hecate

 

[Guest]

I hope this helps

You can now use the EMBED tag for both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.

If you're going to use the sound on a large page, place the tag towards the bottom of your code (but still within </BODY>). Wave files can take some time to load and may hold up the display of your page. This may cause users to hit the stop button in frustration..

If you have problems with MIDI files, be sure your server has the proper MIME types for MIDI files: audio/x-midi or better, audio/midi. Sounds can either be samples (.wav or .au format) or MIDI format (the above example shows MIDI).

<EMBED> with the "autostart=true" and "hidden=true" commands tells Navigator to start playing the file immediately. If you'd like to display the sound console, e.g. so that the user may stop the music or adjust the volume, use:-


<EMBED src = "MIDI/Classical/fugue.mid"
width = 200
height = 60
loop = FALSE
align = right
>

 

[Hecate]

Thanks .....

I am well aware of the embed tag but not of the autostart thingy *S*.
Problem was that it does START playing automatically if or if not I want it to. And I do NOT want it to play, I want the player console to show so that people can play if they like

Great hint and again - thanks *S*

 

[Weird Harold]

Re: I hope this helps

<EMBED> with the "autostart=true" and "hidden=true"

<EMBED src = "MIDI/Classical/fugue.mid"
width = 200
height = 60
loop = FALSE
align = right
>

Hecate, My HTML reference doesn't cover the autostart and hidden tags for embed, but...

Based on dns_reply's example above, try adding "hidden = False" and "autostart = false" to the list of qualifiers in his example. I think the other qualifiers are optional or are restating the default settings.

Try this:

<EMBED src="MIDI/Classical/fugue.mid"
Autostart=False
Hidden=False
>

 

[Hecate]

AGAIN - THANKS!

I am sooo thrilled with it *lol* it worked!!!

Just as you, WH, I never read about the autostart thingy with the embed tag in all my books and even when using Frontpage which usually uses every bloody command just to annoy the shit out of me didn't have that setting.

It is perfectly working and yes, the correct command to stop it from playing is

autostart=false

and hey *winks* the fans of the Hecate audios will be getting the benefit of this new knowledge on my web page soon *g*