Autoplay of audio files has long been considered bad form for websites, but I just can’t help myself. It’s just too fun. I’ve set a piece to play at the entrance of my site and will setup a short audio sample to play on the front of my blog.
You don’t have to embed in a flash player, and you can call up whatever audio format you want (.wav, MP3. .ra, etc.). If you are super evil like me you can set the file to “hidden - true” so no one can turn the music off. My front page is a splash page so if people don’t like the song they can always click to another section.
Here’s the code to autoplay MP3 audio music files on your website page:
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embed src=’Music.wav’ autostart=’true’ volume=’90′ hidden=’TRUE’ height=’0′ width=’0′
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NOTE: You will need to put a “<” at the beginning of code and a “> ” at the end. I couldn’t post it with the tags because my blog think’s it is HTML code (which it is).
Autostart - is to automatically start the song playing.
Hidden - is setting for audio controls.
If control is hidden then dimensions are not shown anyway.
Replace URL with exact location of your audio file.
November 24th, 2006 at 4:58 am
Hi, I’ve been trying to play mp3 at my Yahoo360 blog. So I was very glad to find your instruction. However, when I pasted your code in my blog, and tried to preview it, I saw nothing. Apparently Yahoo360 doesn’t recognize it.
Do you know how to solve the problem?
My sincere thanks,
November 24th, 2006 at 1:57 pm
If I post that code within a post here on my blog it won’t play either - I had to put it into the sidebar to make it play. I’ve tried it also on MySpace.com posts but won’t work either - Needs to be in the main source code of the page. Might not work as a blog post.
Also, see the note on the post for the “< " and ">” symbols to be put on the outside of code.
If you post it on a regular html page you have total control of, it should work. I had it running here for several days on my site, but took it down - I get too many hits and the audio was getting garbled from the bandwidth.
August 12th, 2007 at 10:37 am
You do know that you can use the tag to display HTML as text?
August 12th, 2007 at 10:37 am
The tag?
August 12th, 2007 at 10:38 am
It’s
the PRE tag.
> pre
August 12th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_pre.asp
September 12th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
i would like to know how can use this code html but with many songs, for example i would kie that in my website if you enter there, the music autostart but all the songs in order.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:20 am
I get all of it but the “Embed xsrc=”
What does that mean??
Is there any way to write an html code for an audio file??
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:24 am
That’s what I coded from what you posted.
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:25 am
<embed src=’Music.wav’ autostart=’true’ volume=’90′ hidden=’TRUE’ height=’0′ width=’0′>
- Had to re-edit it
May 7th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
That works for me, thanks!
August 27th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Thanks a lot, this code works fine for me ! Excellent !
But it will not work in Firefox, that’s all
October 13th, 2008 at 4:01 am
but where do u get the code of the songs