Dr. Briefs said:
: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! ^_^
:
:>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.

    The server has to be configured this way so that MIDI files are
    identified with the MIME type of audio/midi or audio/x-midi to
    client browsers.  The default MIDI plugin probably believes this
    MIME type only from the server, and not the filename extension
    of .midi or .mid --- although the *server* believes in the filename
    extension and may (mis)type those files as such.  The Mac and Unix
    clients behave similarly to 'doze.

: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..

    When in doubt, "Save link as..."


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