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sending musical emails

Is it possible to send musical emails that load without the intended receiver having to click on a link within the body of the message?

rstaveley

I don't believe so. Most (all?) e-mail browsers disable JavaScript.

millenia_techy

Yes. you ened to send an HTML-encoded message and include a BGSOUND tag, or EMBED tag...

http://www.tips-tricks.com/sound.asp

millenia_techy

Yes... you need to embed a BGSOUND tag, or an EMBED tag into an HTML-Encoded email....

see:
http://www.tips-tricks.com/sound.asp

hope that helps.

millenia_techy

sorry for the double-post - Expert's Exchange gave me some "this question has been deleted" error.

rstaveley

Nice link, millenia_techy. BGSOUND works in MS Outlook :-)

wmpc

ASKER

do you have to embed the sound file as a link to an online form or can you attach the files in the email somehow?

_nn_

Both are possible I think. To use a sound located somewhere online, using the full URL (http://www.domain.tld/mysound.wav) in the SRC attribute of the BGSOUND tag should work.

Else, if you're worried that the user could be offline when reading the mail and if you want to make sure there's a sound at that moment too, then following should work as well :
- use something like <bgsound src="cid:attached_sound"> in the HTML body of the mail
- attach the sound to the mail and assign it a content identifier, by adding a header line (in addition to the usual MIME-headers) like :

Content-Id: attached_sound

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wmpc

ASKER

Answers have not resolved our problem. This why we have given a C grade

Thanks