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Links
some sound files sources:
sound america
wav central
find sounds
the free site
boggiejack
some tutorials on adding sound:
adding
sounds according to dave
the embed tag
Your assignment:
Today's assignment
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Internet
Explorer only:
the "bgsound" tag
There are two ways to call sound files from your web page one way works
exclusively with Internet Explorer and the other way works both with IE
and Netscape.
To call a sound
file only with IE you would insert the following tag into the
<body>.....</body> of
the web page. <bgsound
src="musicfile.mid" loop="0"> where
musicfile.mid would be replaced with any musical file you want.
With this format the file would have to be in the same directory as the
web page. If, on the other hand, the file was in a directory called audio
or sound or whatever, the syntax would be <bgsound
src="../sound/musicfile.mid" loop="0">
The loop="0"
would cause the file not to play when the page is first loaded. If the number 1, 2 or 3 were placed here, the sound
file would self initialize and play that number of times and stop. If
the number -1 was placed in the loop= attribute, the file would play continually.
The two main
drawbacks to using this method are; it only works with IE and there is
no control panel available to the web site visitor. The sound simply does
what is defined in the command and the visitor has no control over stopping
it or playing it again (unless they hit their browser's stop or reload
buttons). They are at the mercy of the web page designer. It's a good
idea to give the web site visitor the option of controlling the sound.
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Internet
Explorer and Netscape
the "embed" tag
To
make the sound file available to all visitors and controllable by them
with a control console or panel, use the embed
tag instead of the bgsound
tag. The embed tag can be placed anywhere on the page and a control console
will appear at that location in the document. Both Netscape and IE recognize
the embed
tag. The syntax for the embed
tag is as follows
<embed
src="soundfile.mid" height="60" width="144"
controls="console" autostart="false" hidden="false">
- embed
tag includes a sound file of your choosing on the page wherever the
embed tag is placed.
- src="soundfile.mid" the
name of the sound file goes here
- height="60"
width="144"
sets the dimensions of the console to whatever you define.
- controls="console"
must
be present for Netscape and it does no harm in IE so be sure to include
it.
- autostart="false"
will cause the sound file to initialize (or not) without any web site
visitor interaction set to true the sound
will start automatically, set to false
the sound will not start automatically.
- hidden="false"
will make the control console visible. "true"
= invisible will make the console invisible.
- loop="-1"
will make the sound loop indefinitely. To set a limit on how many
times the sound plays place any whole number here.
And of course, there's always a text link
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