Adding Sound To Your Web Site - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

Many webmasters like the idea of adding background music to their Web sites, but most turn away from making it to worry about slow loading pages and the size of files. There are many ways to add background music to your site, and some of them do not require large files to achieve professional results. We will explore different ways to add background music to your site, and the fee to find the best solution for you. 1) MIDI files, MIDI files are very small, because it uses the sound card integrated into tools for creating sounds. The problem is that most sound cards do not have all his decent start, plus two sound cards sound and, therefore, the results are very unpredictable. MIDI files, as a rule they come from one of those cheap Casio keyboards. Use MIDI background music is very likely that your site seems amateur. Want to know how to do it? Just add the line in the region. (Replace xyz with the name of the MIDI file you want!) Command automatically play the file automatically when the page is loaded. Advantages: very small, easy to implement CONS: unpredictable results, fans sounds 2) WAV files using the WAV format, you can add sound recordings to his professional activity, but the problem is that even if you use a configuration 11k / 8 bits as low quality, size of files is still very high and it will take a long time for his music charge. And the slow loading of pages is the worst thing that can happen on a site. The implementation of a WAV file on a Web page is easy. Just add the line in the HTML page. It is a new order in the loop WAV file WAV files, but not make a loop own with the integrated command. Advantages: Many levels of quality, easy to implement Cons: large files, WAV files are not buckle 3) MP3 files are highly compressed MP3 files and not take so long to load, but the problem is that MP3 on the need to maintain a distance the player, and in some cases, leading to their visitors outside their field altogether. In addition, MP3 files are not perform a loop clean. Advantages: the size of files lower quality possible Disadvantages: needs external player software, not loopable 4) Flash If you have a program that lets you create Flash files, you will have great flexibility to add sound to your site. Flash allows you to import WAV and MP3 files, and then create very small files of these sounds are loaded automatically in place. You can set the level of quality and, therefore, determines the amount that you want the file to Flash. Flash, you can also loop of short pieces of sound to create the continuity of the background music files that can be very small. But note that only imported WAV files can be disposed of Flash, MP3 files are not performing a loop clean. Advantages: greater flexibility, smaller file sizes, especially when it rings a loop CONS: You need to buy an expensive Flash software for creating Flash 5) Pre-Made Flash Loops The last thing on the market are pre Flash-configured Music Loops. These files are detected, the loop is almost endless, and most of these Flash Music Loops are only about 20k in size so that the burden almost immediately. Flash Music Loops are available at http://www.flashmusictracks.com target = _new http://www.flashmusictracks.com and there are currently three types of packages available in loop all sorts of styles from techno to classical music. Using these pre-built Flash files is easy. Just mount xyz.swf Flash file on your server and add a few lines of correspondents xyz.html file on your website and Presto ... his professional instant background music. Advantages: very small file size, professional-quality music CONS: Not As you can see, there are many ways to add background music to their Web pages without having to worry about slow loading pages if you want to have the proper file format. (c) 2004 Alan Stewart About the author of the article by Alan Stewart, a professional recording engineer and producer who has worked with numerous Grammy award-winning groups and musicians. (c) 2004 Alan Stewart - http:// www.musicleads.net target = _new http://www.musicleads.net