Music in a Webpage

[ultblad1]

My friends have recently set up a new server, to fool around with PHP and whatnot. Things are going along fine, but I would like the server to be able to play music in the background of a webpage. Yes, I know that this is a bad idea to have music looping in the background, but this is something that I would like to learn.

I am viewing the webpages in Firefox, and I was wondering if there were any easy HTML tags that I could insert to get the music to loop indefinitely in the background. Any help would be appreciated!

[Firestom]

Here is an example code, which I already used before (might be HTML 4.1 and not XHTML 2.0):

<embed name="courage" src="/music/aaf/courage.mp3" loop="true" hidden="false" autostart="true"></embed>

[dwhitney67]

Here is an example code, which I already used before (might be HTML 4.1 and not XHTML 2.0):

<embed name="courage" src="/music/aaf/courage.mp3" loop="true" hidden="false" autostart="true"></embed>

Sorry to hijack the thread, but I tried this in my webpage. The audio file plays, yet a video pane appears. Is this possibly because of the file association Firefox has wrt playing mp3 files? Firefox is setup to use mplayerplug-in 3.55. Can you recommend a better plugin that I can use/install that just plays audio and that does not (attempt to) play video?

[ultblad1]

I'm tried your HTML, but I'm not hearing any music.
The page I'm trying it on is here

Any other ideas?

[dwhitney67]

I'm tried you HTML, but I'm not hearing any music.
The page I'm trying it on is here

Any other ideas?

set hidden="false"

[ultblad1]

I tried that too but nothing happened.

[dwhitney67]

I tried that too but nothing happened.

This is my first time doing this too. But it worked for me; could it possible be that your browser has no file-association setup for MP3 files? Check your browser's preferences. With Firefox, Edit->Preferences, then click on "Applications". Afterwards, search for mp3.

[dwhitney67]

I found this reference, and a few others, that basic state the same... embedding mp3 music in a webpage differs when serving content to Mozilla (i.e. Firefox) and IE.

One thing that I found that I needed to do to stream an mp3 remotely was to rename the file with an m3u extension. I was unable to stream the music when the mp3 extension was used.