cindysei
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music to web page
I've put in code to the following web page - it works for me locally but not on the server I've uploaded it to. Is it because there is an "embed" tag? I got this code from the internet so don't really understand it. What can I do so it plays "live"? Here's the code for the page:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>music</title>
</head>
Thanks, Cindy
<body>
<table width="400" border="1">
<tr>
<td><img src="images/background-mus
</tr>
<embed src="Amélie.mp3" width=150 height=45 autostart=true repeat=true loop=true>
</table>
</body>
</html>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>music</title>
</head>
Thanks, Cindy
<body>
<table width="400" border="1">
<tr>
<td><img src="images/background-mus
</tr>
<embed src="Amélie.mp3" width=150 height=45 autostart=true repeat=true loop=true>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Dave Baldwin
An embed tag without a player will use the default media player on the user's computer. It often has to download completely before it will play. Most of us use a flash music player. Also, you are not supposed to put anything between a </tr> and </table>. That will cause an error in the W3C HTML validator. If you have Flash, you can make a simple one. If you don't, I've used the XSPF music player on some web sites. http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/ Their directions are a little obscure but it does work.
ASKER
So why does it work for me locally but not when I test it live? If I'm using my computer in both instances - I should already have the player, right? What do you mean :"if I have Flash, I can make a simple one?" - I'm not an expert at all as you might have guessed so any further direction would help. I really didn't think playing music automatically on a page would be so difficult code wise!
No browser will automatically play music by itself. They always require an external program or a plugin to do that. It's not particularly difficult but it takes a little more than what you are doing. About Flash, I meant the Adobe Flash compiler program. I have an old copy that I use strictly for generating music clips that will play on web sites.
Did you upload the MP3 to the server?
Did you upload the MP3 to the server?
ASKER
Yes, I uploaded to the server. Sorry, I get the flash thing now - was having a blond moment. I have flash but it's been years since I've used it so a tad rusty. I was trying to get away with as little coding as possible. In Dreamweaver, can I put in a plug-in code? If so, where in my page should I do that? Thanks for your help! Cindy
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