[bryank]

This is my first post of probably many to come. I am looking to loop about 30 seconds of mp3 once my page loads and have it stop when a song is chosen from my Audio page on my bands site. Do any of you know the code for this? It would even be fine if the music stopped once the visitor left the front page.

Thanks

[andyMac]

I am not quite sure exactly how to do what you are asking, but I wanted to prevent you from having bad design on your web page. Having music on your page that is not stop-able by the user is considered bad deisgn and users will hate that aspect. What you should do instead is put a little player (flash or otherwise) right on the page so that users have the option of turning off the music loop. Then you will have happy users!

I hope this is benneficial for you.

[kjmatthews]

In fact, most people seem to agree that having music that plays automatically is bad design whether the user can turn it off or not. Auto-playing music can be terrible, for example, for users who visit your site from work *ahem*. The more user-friendly design would be to have music that the user can turn on if s/he wants to. This can easily be accomplished using Flash or some other player, as andyMac suggests.

[mrgoose]

There's a couple optoins here

http://www.wimpyplayer.com

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