To Insert a Background Sound
In FrontPage,
rightclick an empty spot on the page and select PAGE PROPERTIES | GENERAL | BACKGROUND SOUND
| BROWSE.
Select the file. To play the sound continuously, select FOREVER. To play the sound a fixed
number of times, clear the FOREVER check box and enter the number of times
you want the sound to play in the loop box.
First, be aware that automatic sound on a website is very irritating to a large
number of adults. If your computer's sound is turned on, perhaps you
noticed this effect when you opened this page. Some people will
quickly close the page to avoid the assault.
To give control to your
visitor, for some files you can simply type the path of the file in
the INSERT HYPERLINK box with a link telling the visitor that he can
click to hear an audio file. See the examples at the bottom of the
page.
To control the variables of playing some sound
clips, you may need to go directly to the html code.
Wave (.wav), midi
(.mid), and mp3 files are the types of audio files most often inserted into a website.
RealAudio (.ra) files require a special setup on the host server
and a configuration of the visitor's browser. The newer versions of Windows
Media Player can be configured to play most sound file types in Internet Explorer, although some people prefer WinAmp or QuickTime.
Example
of tags to insert an audio clip:
For Internet Explorer and AOL's proprietary browser
<BGSOUND SRC="mind.mid">
For Netscape Navigator
<EMBED SRC="mind.mid" HEIGHT=60 WIDTH=145 AUTOSTART=FALSE>
The height and width tags are for the
sound player's image file. The problem is that the audio players
have very different sound panels and graphics, and the page's author has
very little control over the visitor's default player for each type of file.
AUTOSTART, NOSAVE,
and HIDDEN are true/false values that you can change.
- AUTOSTART: Allows
the file to be automatically played when set to True.
- NOSAVE: Prevents
people from saving the file to their computer, when set to True -
However, there is an way for the visitor to sidestep this command.
- HIDDEN: Will
hide the player's control box when set to True.
EXAMPLE OF MUSIC WHEN THE VISITOR HAS CONTROL
