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Adding Sound
| What Is A Sound File?
How Do You Download A Sound File To Your Web Page? |
Notes:
When you add any sort of sound to your web page (be it music, voice, sound effect, etc) you need to consider the following:
Think about whether you really need to load the sound file automatically. Remember, that if a Web Site visitor has to wait too long for an audio file to load, then you are giving them the opportunity to leave without ever seeing your web page.
Not all computers or browsers can recognise the many different types of sound formats. You therefore need to be careful about which types of sound format you code into your web page.
The four most popular sound formats that are most likely to work on all browsers, are WAVE, AU, AIFF and MIDI.
WAVE, AU, and AIFF sound formats are like sound recordings, in that they produce recorded sounds. They are useful for short sound effects or brief voice statements. They tend to be large files when compared with the little amount of sound they produce.
A MIDI sound format is generally a great deal smaller than WAVE, AU, and AIFF sound formats. MIDI files do not work well with many types of speech files but are excellent for playing music. A MIDI sound format is actually a text file with a series of commands for the browser to execute (such as "play middle 'C' for 0.125 seconds, then play 'D' for 0.225 seconds .......). A one minute WAVE file can be as large as 1Mb in size, whereas a one minute MIDI file can be less than 25k.
A piece of music is simply a file - just like an image is a file and a web page is a file. When you download an image to your hard drive, you are saving a file. Thus when you download a piece of music to your hard drive, you are also saving a file - in this case a sound file.
You can download a file directly from shareware and freeware audio sites, or if a web page has an 'image link' or 'text link' to a sound file, you can use the link to save the sound file.
A clickable 'text link' (located in the body of the Web Page) would look as follows:
<A HREF="chocolate.wav"> Homer Loves Chocolate</A>
To see this actually working click on the following text link:
A clickable 'image link' (located in the body of the Web Page) would look as follows:
<A HREF="chocolate.wav"> <IMG SRC="homer.gif"> </A>
To see this actually working click on the following image link: 
Netscape and Internet Explorer require different html tags in order to allow a sound file to automatically open. The 'BGSOUND SRC' tag is for Internet Explorer, the 'EMBED SRC' tag is for Netscape. If you want to ensure that all visitors to your Web Page can hear your sound file (providing they have a sound card installed in the computer), then you will need to code for both Netscape and Internet Explorer.
The following Netscape tag needs to be placed after the <BODY> tag. This coding does not allow the sound recorder to be viewed (it is hidden), therefore the Web Page Visitor has no choice but to listen to your favourite tune!!
<EMBED SRC="brikwall.mid" AUTOSTART="True"
HIDDEN="True" LOOP= "True">
The following Internet Explorer tag needs to
be placed immediately after the Netscape tag.
<BGSOUND SRC="brikwall.mid" LOOP="infinite" >
Displaying the sound recorder in NETSCAPE.
The following Netscape tag needs to
be placed after the <BODY> tag. This coding allows the
sound recorder to be viewed (it is not hidden), therefore the Web Page Visitor
has a choice to stop the sound file if they wish.
<EMBED SRC="brikwall.mid" AUTOSTART="True" HIDDEN="False" LOOP= "True">
Displaying the sound recorder in MSIE.
The following Internet Explorer tag needs to
be placed after the <BODY> tag. This coding allows the
sound recorder to be viewed (it is not hidden), therefore the Web Page Visitor
has a choice to start and stop the sound file, if they wish.
<a href="brikwall.mid">Want to listen to Pink Floyd's BRICK IN THE WALL?</a>
To see this actually working click on the following text link:
Adding Auto Open Sound To Your Web Page
Please note that some of the sound files down loaded may sound "Jerky". After selecting the sound and allowing it to play through completely, you should then replay the sound again, using the play button on your systems sound player.
http://www.hedges.org/Simpsons/
The Simpsons Site (mostly .WAV sound files)
http://wav-emporium.forsite.net/
The Wav Emporium (free Wav sound files)
http://www.gamenexus.com/music.html
Game Nexus (midi sounds)
http://www.soundcentral.com/index.html
Sound Central (midi sounds)
http://www.awpweb.com/msod/
MSOD Midi Songs On Demand
http://www.clark.net/pub/fan/BossaNovaClips.html
Bossa Nova 2001 .AU sound samples
http://disney.go.com/disneychannel/amazinganimals/Henry/mac_download.html
Disney Channel Amazing Animals Henry's Treasure Chest (.AIFF sound files)
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