Music on my site

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Hello everyone. Each page on my site has a corresponding music selection that
I would like to play once when the pages loads. I have no problem getting
this to happen when viewing the pages with Explorer, but not with any other
browsers. Does anyone have any suggestions that would help give me what I'm
looking for?
 
Stephanie,
What I will write will not help you at all, but it is a plea for further
help from the NG

I also cannot get music to play in Firefox. I posted to the Firefox forum
(MozillaZine). They suggested to check that the file type I was trying to
play (.mid) was registered to RealPlayer which is a plugin I have in my
Mozilla Firefox folder. It is and it doesn't play. I also have a QuickTime
plug in.

One MVP here (was it T.A. Rowe ?) said that he couldn't get Firefox to play
music either.

Any help gratefully accepted

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Cheers,
Trevor L.
Website: http://tandcl.homemail.com.au
Hello everyone. Each page on my site has a corresponding music
selection that I would like to play once when the pages loads. I have
no problem getting this to happen when viewing the pages with
Explorer, but not with any other browsers. Does anyone have any
suggestions that would help give me what I'm looking for?
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Trevor, suggest you stick to .wav or .mpg file formats for use on the web.

I could not get FF to install Flash.
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Trevor,

I have no problem playing a .mid file in FF, as it uses Windows Media Player. I just can't get FF
play Flash, because it will not download and install the MM Flash Player.

Under Windows XP, I have my program defaults to use all MS component of Windows.
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Thomas,

I set Windows Media Player to play .mid files (which it does) and then tried
to play the same .mid file in Firefox but it failed.

Is there something I need to install?

Would I have the same problem with .wav or .mpg files?
 
I haven't set anything directly, but I also haven't installed any other Media Players.

Windows Media Player is using the default configuration of playing all media files on my systems.

I did the basic install of FF, and that was it.

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Stephanie,
The following code works with Mozilla and possibly with most browsers
<embed src="trumpet1.wav" autostart="true" loop="false" width="2"
height="0"> </embed>
Replace the .wav filename with yours, this will play only once.
HTH
Teriel9
 
Teriel9

I have been following this as I can't get music to play in Firefox

This is my code:
<embed src="minuet.mid" width="144" height="45" autostart="true"
loop="false"></embed>

In IE6, the width and height parameters give a box for start/stop
/pause/volume etc. (and it plays)
In Firefox I was asked to download a plug in. Even after I do this, music
doesn't play in Firefox.

I may have posted this before but this is my Mozilla Firefox\plugins
directory
Contents of C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\
At 04/23/2005 1:12:09 PM 12 Files 1.35 MB

flashplayer.xpt
GetFlash.exe
GetFlash.exe
..manifestnpnul32.dll
nppl3260.dll
npqtplugin.dll
npqtplugin2.dll
nprjplug.dll
nprpjplug.dll
NPSWF32.dll
nsIQTScriptablePlugin.xpt
QuickTimePlugin.class
 
Teriel9,

Thanks for that info.

I downloaded switchsetup.exe from nch.com.au and it appeared to install
(although where I don't know) and start the Switch program, but it wouldn't
convert the .mid file as it said I needed a codec. At this stage I got lost.
The website didn't seem to help much. It gave a list of codecs (I think) but
there didn't seem to be a download or a way of telling whether I have them
installed (Windows XP home SP2)

It would be great if I could get this to work. Perhaps I can try an existing
..wav file ( I may have some in My Music folder)

Cheers,
Trevor L.
Website: http://tandcl.homemail.com.au
 
Hi Trevor,
I have just tested my Firefox with a .mid file and it worked ok using the
following code, after having imported the file into my FP2003 site.
<embed src="flourish.mid" autostart="true" loop="false" width="2"
height="0"> </embed>
You will probably find the same .mid file in c\windows\media I believe it to
be a sample.
Best of luck
Teriel9
 
Hi to Teriel9 and anyone following this thread

I have almost exactly the same code
<embed src="minuet.mid" width="144" height="45" autostart="true"
loop="false"></embed>
The only difference is the width and height paramters. Setting these to
values larger than near zero creates a play box in IE6.
My file (minuet.mid) is also a sample obtained from a website.

Running my code in Firefox causes the problems described earlier - i.e.
asking for a download which when downloaded makes no difference.

I think the problem is in linking Firefox to a player. I followed some
instructions on a website somewhere (can't remember which one) about
installing Quicktime as a plugin. It actually worked, but I got an awful
scrunching/loud static sound when the file started playing. This occurred in
both Firefox and IE6, so I gave that up as a bad job. RealPlayer works
beautifully in IE6, so I think all I need to know is how to link Firefox to
RealPlayer as IE6 does.

I have addressed this problem on a Firefox forum. but so far the suggestions
from there haven't helped.
 
Have you tried the Real site?

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