website background music

I have embedded background music into a page with:

<embed src="tune.mp3" autostart=true hidden=true id="song" enablejavascript="true">


the problem with this is that the song stops often because it has not fully loaded up when it starts to play.
Is there a javascript or something of that nature that will load the song up first then try and play it? I am open to any other ideas too

I am open to any other ideas too
How about not using background music? =)

From what I remember, MP3 support was kind of sketchy... <embed> was usually used for MIDIs and small WAV files.

What does "enabledjavascript" do?
[i mean, its obvious, but why/when would you use it?]

well I agree, I dont want to have music on the site either, but the customer is always right, my client really wants music on the site, I am thinking I am going to just try and drop the frequency

I have buttons on the site the utilize javascript to turn the music on and off, I wanted to use my own skin, since the console was quicktime in FF and win media player in IE, which screwed up my design

Try using the <object> tag instead of <embed>. It's designed for multimedia; it may have a some built-in loading (I know it's got a parameter that shows something else while the object's loading). I've never tried it, though, so I'm just guessing.

Is it a professional site advertising a business? If you'd like you can point the client to this thread:



There ya go...glad I could help.

You're sorta right. Although he's your customer, we're his customers, and we're right. You should inform him that having background music drives traffic away from his site, not to it.

I should read the whole thread before posting.