+Deliveryguy428 Posted June 7, 2005 Posted June 7, 2005 I am sure there is already an answer to this, but I can not find it on here, so I must ask I want to submit a song that would play when people viewed the cache page. How do the song into the cache page when I am writing up the page?
+Miragee Posted June 7, 2005 Posted June 7, 2005 There is a way to do it, but I must encourage you to not do it unless there is a "button" for the page-viewer to push to hear the song. I have a very slow dialup connection (24K) and having music load at the same time the page is loading REALLY slows down my browser.
+Deliveryguy428 Posted June 7, 2005 Author Posted June 7, 2005 I understand and I do know a few people around my area still use dial-up. The whole clip is at most a 1/2 a minute to a minute clip of music
Keystone Posted June 7, 2005 Posted June 7, 2005 geoholic, You are about to be flamed by 38 people who will say "please don't use sound on your cache page" in 38 different ways, many of which wil not be nearly as polite as idiosyncratic. Please don't take it personally. It is meant in a loving way, as when my mom reminded me not to pick my nose in public. It is two weeks later and I am still mad at her about that. Somewhere around reply number 22, a helpful webhead will explain that you'll need to link to a sound file hosted offsite, using the html command for a background sound. This responsive answer to your question will be lost in the shuffle, so be alert for it! To the next 38 posters, please be gentle. He is just asking a question is all.
+Miragee Posted June 7, 2005 Posted June 7, 2005 For that 1/2 minute while it is downloading and playing, it can slow my downloading of other information to a crawl . . . so, using a button would be best. I know this has been brought up before, so if you do a forum search, you should find where this was addressed in detail, including the HTML code that is necessary.
+AuntieWeasel Posted June 7, 2005 Posted June 7, 2005 Oi! You! Frog-headed Bubblestein! Stop picking your nose this instant! Geoholic, bear in mind naughty people who cruise geocaching.com from work, too, and shouldn't oughta. Whenever something unexpected and obviously not work-related comes tumbling out of my cubicle, I say the magic badwords. You don't want me saying bad words, do you?
Keystone Posted June 7, 2005 Posted June 7, 2005 Oi! You! Frog-headed Bubblestein! Stop picking your nose this instant! Mom? Is that YOU? Wow. Online, you're a lot funnier.
+JMBella Posted June 7, 2005 Posted June 7, 2005 (edited) This should help. It even has it's own disclaimer: Before you go any further, think hard: Do you really want to do this? Background sounds have a way of annoying people. There someone is, happily surfing the net, when suddenly their computer starts playing music for everyone to hear, perhaps everyone in the office area, who are now finding out that our formerly happy surfer isn't really working Edited June 7, 2005 by JMBella
+carleenp Posted June 7, 2005 Posted June 7, 2005 Somewhere around reply number 22, a helpful webhead will explain that you'll need to link to a sound file hosted offsite, using the html command for a background sound. This responsive answer to your question will be lost in the shuffle, so be alert for it! To the next 38 posters, please be gentle. He is just asking a question is all. Do I have to wait that long? For now I throw my name in as one who says please please link to the file and don't make it play automatically. Music on pages is really annoying! With a link to it you give people a choice.
+sbell111 Posted June 7, 2005 Posted June 7, 2005 Please, please don't do it. If you must express yourself with sound, let people click to start the sound, not scramble around to turn it off. Music on cache pages, ugh.
+mikeatnight Posted June 7, 2005 Posted June 7, 2005 Please dont add sound. Nothing makes me hit the back button quicker than a webpage with music.
+Runfrog Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 I hate to sing in on this, ha ha. But, don't do the music, unless its so low no one can hear it and then, hey what's the point? And don't pick you nose in public.
+Kit Fox Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 (edited) I vote no to background music also. This is the only cache where background sounds made the cache page interesting. They are very small, and it didn't slow the cache page too much for my 28.8 connection. Wait Until Dark Edited June 8, 2005 by Kit Fox
+Markwell Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 (edited) <Font size=+2>Music Controller</font size><br> <embed src="Insert URL of Midi file or Wav File" Autostart=FALSE Width=144 Height=56 Loop=false></center></p> The key is the Autostart=FALSE - that will make it so that you actually have to click on the play button on the music to make it play. Example in action. Edited June 8, 2005 by Markwell
+CompuCash Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 I'd like to vote no also - this cache was at the top of my GSAK list and drove me crazy for several weeks - http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...cd-e6324fbb4b4b it is a short sound byte but how would you like THAT at work! can you say Incoming!
+WascoZooKeeper Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 Sheesh, Markwell, that was only the 12th, not the 22nd.
+Stunod Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 <Font size=+2>Music Controller</font size><br><embed src="Insert URL of Midi file or Wav File" Autostart=FALSE Width=144 Height=56 Loop=false></center></p> The key is the Autostart=FALSE - that will make it so that you actually have to click on the play button on the music to make it play. Example in action. You didn't blink and miss this post, did ya? It was the one Keystone warned you about. Now I think we have about another 25 flames... DON'T PUT MUSIC ON YOUR CACHE PAGE!!! 24...
+woof n lulu Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 Music on pages have the same effect as nails on a blackboard...*cringe*
uperdooper Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 i don't mind music. just use the play button. please.
+mtn-man Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 You were right at GeoWoodstock -- there was a reason I needed to smack you. 23 (Not posting from my office at this time.)
+Team GPSaxophone Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 I love music, just not on webpages. I surf with my speakers off on purpose.
+Tidalflame Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 I could tell you exactly how to do it, but I'm sorry... my sense of ethics prevents me from doing so. Music on webpages is BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD.
+reveritt Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 Some people (not me, of course) waste time at work by web surfing. Those who are addicted to geocaching (not me, of course) may visit GC.com during work hours. For them, music that plays automatically is a pain--and so unnecessary!
Charles Iverson Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 It is meant in a loving way, as when my mom reminded me not to pick my nose in public. It is two weeks later and I am still mad at her about that.
Difficult Run Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 (edited) Adding music to a webpage is TACKY. Counting Down from 37... 21st geocacher to say FORGET IT! Edited June 8, 2005 by Difficult Run
Charles Iverson Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 (edited) ok ok 21 if i counted right (see EDIT) PLEASE DO NOT PUT MUSIC ON YOU CACHE PAGE!!! the reason.. i have music going on my computer ( head phones) when ever i am on and web page music well you know what that does.. sorry... EDIT: ok so this fourm is now serving 20 beaten to it!! by 1 min!!!! Edited June 8, 2005 by Charles Iverson
+briansnat Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 the reason.. i have music going on my computer ( head phones) when ever i am on and web page music well you know what that does.. You'll also get some dirty looks if you're surfing the web at the library.
Charles Iverson Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 (edited) that too O so that was you giving me that dirty look last time i was there Edited June 8, 2005 by Charles Iverson
+briansnat Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 Hey, that gives me an idea. Put pornographic sounds on totally innocuous web pages. Imagine somene clicking on that in work or the library. Heheheheh.
+E = Mc2 Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 Now - don't do it. How many are we up to? Enough, I should think. Hopefully, by now the OP should have enough information to make an informed deicision to go ahead and do it anyway. Is there any requirement that we actually have 38, Keystone? Maybe someone could search and see if there's anything in the 'guidelines' or the 'creed'. I'm not too up on that, myself. Don't do it. For the love of little green apples, PLEASE!
+Night_Hawk Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 If you feel that you really need to use music as a clue, do it the way I did at my Coyote cache Other then that I have to vote NO for music.
El Sapo Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 Nothing busts you at work quicker than music on a webpage. If you hit the stop button on your browser, it usually kills the music.
+VegasCacheHounds Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 Nothing busts you at work quicker than music on a webpage. If you hit the stop button on your browser, it usually kills the music. And that would be precisely why I always leave the "mute"box checked on my work PC. Random sounds and music on webpages aren't an issue now
GeoPhishers Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 I like to go against the grain ...."Let's hear that funky music white boy"....."Play that funky music right"
+wimseyguy Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 Wild Cherry! I love that song! I love music, I even like music on webpages. I just don't like music on cache pages. What's that, only one vote per customer, oh... nevermind then.
bogleman Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 Hey if it makes any difference now, I had the same thought and searched (rather poorly) the forums but fearing that I was about to get eaten alive by the folks here (a majority are real PROS, it's scary) I sent an email to Keystone who is my local approver and he was able to provide some helpful input. I would suggest contacting your local approver for help on cache listings in a private email, cut out the middleman and go straight to the supplier.
+fauxSteve Posted June 8, 2005 Posted June 8, 2005 Please, just pick your nose instead! It's really more pleasant to experience than music automatically playing on a webpage. Make it an optional link and I'm all for it (but I probably won't click on it).
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