If you get a chance can you test the speed?

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Anyone know how to stream the music? Or, should the entire song be
uploaded instead of the 60 seconds used now?

I hate to bog down a viewers PC. If this works it will be added to MS
Movie Maker but will it be too large to publish to a web page?

If you get a chance can you test the speed?

http://melvillehighschool.us/photosorleans/slidesmusic.htm
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Sad to watch but it played perfectly if that's what you needed to know.
To do it in Movie Maker your best bet would be to use the entire song. Yes
there is a copyright issue involved here but the message your sending is
such that I can't imagine anybody trying to yell copyright infringement.
As far as it being too large to publish on your website that depends on your
hosting service rules as to filesize. Even if they limit the size of the
file you can always tell Movie Maker to make the file smaller than whatever
size your limited to. But if too small you could lose quality.
 
On a T1 Connection, it loaded just fine. However, I had to close the browser
as quickly as possible to avoid the music. You might want to add some
controls to turn it off for the user. Most users don't want to hear music on
web pages, statistically. And you do want them to stick around. If they can
turn it off, they are more likely to.

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Actually, having the music start when the page loads is just fine, as long
as the user has the option to turn it off. Nice music, really! I think
you've done a fine job there. Hope lots of people visit and decide to help!

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Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
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You can lead a fish to a bicycle,
but you can't make it stink.
 
Here is a way to give the visitor the choice of whether or not to play music

HTML
<span id="sound"></span>
<input type="button" value="Play/Stop
Music" onclick="playSound()"/>

JS
function playSound()
{
var x = document.getElementById("sound")
x.innerHTML = (!x.innerHTML )
? '<embed src="audio/minuet.wav" loop=false autostart=true
hidden>'
: ''
}
 
Sorry, they are finally there now. But the music starts auto and the user
has to click stop.
Is there a way to not start auto?
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Here's a thought. You could start with an entry page, explaining what
the user is going to see when he or she clicks on the link. Put one
picture on the entry page and have plenty of stuff on there to read.
Meanwhile, have the music and maybe some of the images preload in the
background. Explain that there is going to be music and a slideshow.

Then, when the user gets to the slideshow page, keep the controls the
way they are, so that the music defaults to "Play". Yes, it's naughty,
and it's just not done, frightfully bad form and so on, but the
slideshow *needs* the music for its emotional appeal. The music is
absolutely essential.

One other thought: although the show loads quickly enough on a
reasonably fast connection, you might consider using a slideshow
script that allows the images to dissolve from one to another. You'll
probably need to make them all the same size and shape but with a
little ingenuity you can paste them all on to a black background big
enough to accommodate an array of mixed portrait or landscape images.

It will all add to the impact of what is already a poignant and
powerful presentation.

fido
 
Nice one, Trevor.

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Trevor L. said:
Here is a way to give the visitor the choice of whether or not to play
music

HTML
<span id="sound"></span>
<input type="button" value="Play/Stop
Music"
onclick="playSound()"/>

JS
function playSound()
{
var x = document.getElementById("sound")
x.innerHTML = (!x.innerHTML )
? '<embed src="audio/minuet.wav" loop=false autostart=true
hidden>'
: ''
}
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Thanks Trevor, I added it to a test page

Trevor L. said:
Here is a way to give the visitor the choice of whether or not to play
music

HTML
<span id="sound"></span>
<input type="button" value="Play/Stop
Music"
onclick="playSound()"/>

JS
function playSound()
{
var x = document.getElementById("sound")
x.innerHTML = (!x.innerHTML )
? '<embed src="audio/minuet.wav" loop=false autostart=true
hidden>'
: ''
}
Click to expand...
 
Murray said:
Nice one, Trevor.
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Thanks, Murray.

Another said:
Meanwhile, have the music and maybe some of the images preload in the
background. Explain that there is going to be music and a slideshow.
Click to expand...

If I add another span in the HTML:
<span id="aupreload"></span>
<span id="sound"></span>
...........
would the code on the next line do the preload ?
document.getElementById("aupreload").innerHTML='<embed
src="audio/minuet.wav" loop=false autostart=false hidden>'

I tested it and the page loads as before. I assume it is doing something in
the background however ?!
(I thought of ways of including this in playSound(), but it got too complex
to test for blank strings or a specific string, so I separated it.)
 
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