html help

[reveille66]

usually i dont get stumped at this kind of stuff. well heres my question. I have a mp3 that i want to be playing on my webpage but whenever i put in the code a download screen comes up for it. what can i do to stop this from happening so that it will just load up and play?
Thankyou

[liljim]

At 10/15/01 04:37 PM, reveille66 wrote: usually i dont get stumped at this kind of stuff. well heres my question. I have a mp3 that i want to be playing on my webpage but whenever i put in the code a download screen comes up for it. what can i do to stop this from happening so that it will just load up and play?

You can't embed mp3's to play as a background sound, as you would with wav files.

[RancidScammerDude]

Well, Mp3 files will not play in an HTML , you'l need to record it and save it as a wav file , Or download a Midi. There are lots of great sources for Midis like .. i.e : Say you want a midi from a video game, A good site to check out would be vgmusic.com with lots of midis. Or simply search the net.

and i recomend you use Midi for bg music 'cause it loads faster then wav

[Billism]

Because you cannot do this with mp3 files, I'd say the best thing to do would be to convert the mp3 file into a real audio file and embed it and hide it, so that it can stream play. Unless you want to convert it into a low quality wav file and say screw the low-bandwidth usin' people.

At 10/15/01 04:37 PM, reveille66 wrote: usually i dont get stumped at this kind of stuff. well heres my question. I have a mp3 that i want to be playing on my webpage but whenever i put in the code a download screen comes up for it. what can i do to stop this from happening so that it will just load up and play?
Thankyou

[QwaNkerkas]

At 10/15/01 04:37 PM, reveille66 wrote: usually i dont get stumped at this kind of stuff. well heres my question. I have a mp3 that i want to be playing on my webpage but whenever i put in the code a download screen comes up for it. what can i do to stop this from happening so that it will just load up and play?
Thankyou

I've tried putting Mp3's into webpages but it doesn't work. You need a MIDI or a wav. Or you can just use flash, by inserting music and have it somewhere where no one really notices it.

[Pecos]

At 10/15/01 04:37 PM, reveille66 wrote: usually i dont get stumped at this kind of stuff. well heres my question. I have a mp3 that i want to be playing on my webpage but whenever i put in the code a download screen comes up for it. what can i do to stop this from happening so that it will just load up and play?
Thankyou

What everyone said about WAV files is right, but I'd actually go a step further and put the mp3/wav file into a Flash movie (and then put the flash movie on the page). You won't lose too much in terms of quality, but the page will load much quicker.

[RancidScammerDude]

If you wanna play mp3 files in the Background, You gotta get Flash 5 , and use the site made by that source and put in to a php file . some mp3 can go into flash so..