Posted 5 years ago #
I want to have it so that when people arrive at my blog a mp3 song begins to play, not sure if this would be annoying or not but either way i would like to play around with it.. i would like to load up a mp3 song and have it play automatically
anyone know a plugin that can do that?
I don't know of any plugins, but there's several bits of code out there that do this. If you have access to Flash, you can get a piece of Flash code that will do exactly this. But there's also Real Players, Quicktime...all kinds of things that'll do this for you. You just need a little snippet of code.
I *will* say though, that you should provide an "Off" button if you *really* plan on doing this. Believe me, NOTHING will make a person leave faster than having to listen to something they don't want to, and no way to shut it off.
And, personally, I tend to have my iTunes playing in the background when I'm on my computer - many things that do what you want to do will cut off my music to play yours. I *hate* that.
So, annoying, yes, it is muchly so. But people do it anyway - and that's how you can do it. Just do a google search for a Flash mp3 player (I can't remember that Flash site - there's a big one out there that has all of these scripts already done - you just download and install - flashtips.com, I think? I can't remember... - but it has one where all you have to do is put it on your server, and use a plain text file to call in whatever song you want to play - no editing of the Flash code needed) - you'll find it :)
Posted 5 years ago #
Doodlebee makes a good point about picking your poison. I have music on Web sites which are set up not to kill iTunes, etc. but you do wind up with two songs playing. My background music is built with Flash.
I've looked for media plugins - not that hard - and have not yet found a plugin that does what you are looking for. I have only come across mp3 plugs to play audio on posts and would also be interested to see if a plugin exists. I haven't seen a lot of Flash built into blogs but there was a good instruction with code from this forum when I asked about a Flash masthead. So if there is no plugin you can do it with Flash.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/111065?replies=5
Hope this helps.
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