Adding sound to web page

[pattyrae]

I wrote recently about adding a player to a web page and was advised to use Flash. There is a very long video tutorial, and it will take forever to complete since I have dial up. So, I came across a html method to insert into page. It is this: (no looping) <BGSOUND SRC=".....MP3" LOOP=INFINITE>
<EMBED SRC="....MP3" AUTOSTART="TRUE "HIDDEN="TRUE" LOOP="FALSE">
I have inserted it (I use DW mx 2004) and it worked in aol.browser, but started and stoped in IE. Would love you guys' imput on this. I can't get an answer in freewebs.com as to how to work with music in their page setup.

I really appreciate all the comments.

Pat McCabe
pattyrae

[Newsgroup_User]

> Would love you guys' imput on this.

The answer you're going to get from us is 'use flash'.

Two reasons:

1) It's consistent (at least, moreso than any HTML/embed/javascript method)

2) It's more user friendly as you can put a 'stop playing this annoying
music' or 'mute' button on the page.

-Darrel

[MikeL7 · Accepted solution]

Flash is way better, you canfind free players that will play mp3's all day long. Look at this mp3 player i got for free, it will read a directory and write a XML playlist on the fly. I modified the code to use a set list that i make from a web page form.
http://plcstrings.com/