At 03:29 PM 9/30/97 +0200, Brazil wrote:
>On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Sasami-chan wrote:
>>After my previous failed attempts at adding music to my homepage, my
>>desire to add music is burning once again. As most of you (probably all)
>>know, adding music to one's homepage requires certain additions to one's 
>>WWW server in order to work properly (i.e. without running MIDIPLAYER
>>first). How is this achieved? Any help on this is deeply appreciated! ^_^

><scratches his head>
>Um, what exactly is it you want??

>I`ve never before heard that you need to do anything special to your
>*server* to have a midi file on your page. I, for one, most certainly
>didn`t!

There is something specific that a *server* must do to get Netscape's
defaults MIDI plugin to play MIDI files without any major problems..  well,
at least on the Windows side of things.  Not too sure how the Mac versions
of Netscape handle it.  Neither of two server that I'm on (Netcom and
Bayside) had this setting when I first started making pages on them, so
when I tried to embed MIDI files, they wouldn't play properly, but they
reconfigured the servers shortly afterwards, so now they work fine.

Obviously, since I'm not the one who had to deal with changing the server
configurations (nor did I keep myself well-informed on its progress), I
can't really help Aubrey in this case..  but just to confirm (as Mako did)
that such a problem does exist.


A way around this is to use the HTML tags for Crescendo, which doesn't rely
on server configuration like Netscape does (although it used to).  There
are, of course, advantages and disadvantages of doing this..


>You can use the <embed> tag, but it works only on Netscape AFAIK, so
>you have to use the Micro$oft version <bgsound> at the same time.

The more current versions of M$IE does support the <embed> tag (well, at
least mine does..  it might have to do with my installing of Crescendo for
M$IE some time ago, I'm not too sure).


>Of course both aren`t really good style because you should always give
>the user the freedom to chose if he wants to hear the music. That makes
>it even easier. Just set a plain old link to the MIDI file from a nice
>icon.

With the <embed> tag, you can choose to not let the MIDI play automatically
(though they'd still download it), but not with <bgsound>.   With
Crescendo, if the person doesn't have the plug-in, they need to download it
first, and if they do that, typically they WANT to hear the music....  I
think you can choose not to let it play automatically with Crescendo, as
well, but since I don't use it, I'm not sure...


BTW, Brazil, for some reason I'm getting two copies of the messages you
send to the Tenchi ML.  Any idea what might be causing this?

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