Music in Firefox

jimmy1012 · 01-10-2006

I don't know if this is just me, but when I go to a site with music embedded in the site Firefox starts playing the song right away, and when the part that is playing catches up with the part that is loaded, its wierd. Its like it turns what is loaded into its own track and only loops that from then on. Does anyone know what I am talking about? Is there anyway for me to fix it? Is there some way I can make sure that it doesn't happen on my site?

thecubed · 01-10-2006

You could check the specifications for the Windows Media control, and give a param tag like <PARAM name="BufferAmount" value="20"> (although that might not be a real param tag for the windows media player control).
Check around for the buffer amount - you should set it higher, like from 5-10seconds, depending on how large your music file and the combined sizes of the image files to load.

*unleash* · 01-10-2006

or just wait with playing until your buffer is ful,
in the left bottom is a player(I think)

jimmy1012 · 01-10-2006

I will try what you said cubed. Thanks. I don't knwo if this makes a difference, but I said embedded and what I meant was background music. sorry if that was confussing. gtg try the bufferamount thing

thanks again

jimmy1012 · 01-13-2006

Ok, I could not find one buffer param tag. I am really stuck now.

thecubed · 01-13-2006

After some thinking, I came up with an idea!
There are javascript things that display the time it took to load the page, and display it _after_ the page has loaded, so I thought you could use that to do a document.write your embed code for your music.

add this code to your <body> tag,
onLoad="startMusic( );"
then add this somewhere to your page,
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function startMusic( ) {
document.write("***ADD YOUR BGSOUND CODE HERE***");
}
</SCRIPT>

The only thought is that you might have to escape your bgsound code, so if it went
<BGSOUND src="blah">
you would have to change it to
<BGSOUND src=\"blah\">

I hope this helps! (and I hope it works

)

robin746 · 05-02-2006

Sites that do anything without asking, like resizing the browser window or playing music, are extremely nasty. It is my computer and *I* will decide what music to play.

If you want to provide music (not sure why) do it as a download or at least let the user turn it on.