Sound clip on cache page

[+madmanacrossthewater]

Hi. Is it possible to add a sound clip to the cache description? I am trying to do the 12 Days of Christmas series of caches and the music would be cheerful! Thanks

[cachman9]

That would be cool....

[The Peterson Finders]

WOW that's a great idea!

[+andyakashrek]

Can't see why not. I think that you would have to upload the file to a file hosting server and link to it using html from your description. I would like to know if you manage it as I am looking to do a similar thing on a cache that I am planning to place.

[+Dame Deco]

I've seen them often--though I'm the wrong one to ask how!

[Mr.Yuck]

WOW that's a great idea!

 

Bad idea. So bad, they took away the ability to add background music to a cache page around 2006. Seriously. There was a time after that when the background music stayed until the cache page was edited, but I'm pretty sure they did away with that too.

[+Viajero Perdido]

It'd have to be something you click on to begin playing, as described above. (Good thing too, there are environments where unexpected sound from a web page can be unwelcome.)

 

Groundspeak filters out "active content" - including sound - from cache pages as they're submitted.

[+FunnyNose]

5 Reasons Your Website Should NEVER Autoplay Sound!

[Keystone]

Many users object to web pages that start playing sound or video when opened. Without warning, their computer's speakers have just awakened the sleeping family member on the couch, or interrupted the co-worker in the next cubicle. Based on past discussions in the forums, it's best practice to link to the sound clip on an external site, and give users the option of clicking on the link.

[Mr.Yuck]

It'd have to be something you click on to begin playing, as described above. (Good thing too, there are environments where unexpected sound from a web page can be unwelcome.)

 

Groundspeak filters out "active content" - including sound - from cache pages as they're submitted.

 

Yes, I didn't explain myself very well. The <BGSOUND> HTML tag has been filtered out, even if used by the cache owner, since about 2006. I'm not so sure about "clicking something to play the music" either. You mean like embedding a music player? I doubt you can even do that. Last I knew, you couldn't embed YouTube videos, which is pretty much the same thing.

[+Dame Deco]

Ah--but I've seen them as clues in puzzle caches. I guess I didn't know it was background music--sorry.

[+Walts Hunting]

This was removed at the request of many many users. Before thinking about putting the effort into making a "cool" cache page you might want to consider how many people will actually read it. I would guess I actually read less than 5% of the cache pages of my finds if that. For most this hobby has evolved to downloading the pq to your device. Go find them. Upload field notes or log totally using GSAK. The page never gets read.

[+Dame Deco]

Well, I read every cache page!

[+niraD]

I've solved a number of puzzle caches that used audio files. They were hosted elsewhere, and the puzzle cache description merely linked to them, as described earlier in this thread.

[+redsox_mark]

I've solved a number of puzzle caches that used audio files. They were hosted elsewhere, and the puzzle cache description merely linked to them, as described earlier in this thread.

 

Yes me too. Though around here at least, lately reviewers won't allow them to be hosted on YouTube because of the commercial guideline. Though I think all hosting sites are commercial in some nature (YouTube being more obvious though).

[Keystone]

Reviewers are instructed to allow YouTube videos as an exception to the 'commercial website' aspect of the cache listing guidelines. It's a case of fun factor greatly outweighing the little bits of commercialism around the edges of their webpages.

[+pppingme]

Oh wow I hope not.. I find very few things in life annoying, but this is high on the list. A link that I can choose to click/play is good enough.

[+hzoi]

I personally am glad that the fad of putting autoplay midi files on websites died out in the early 2000s. If you want to put a link to a YouTube song on the page so folks have the option, that might be the best compromise.

[+Beach_hut]

Reviewers are instructed to allow YouTube videos as an exception to the 'commercial website' aspect of the cache listing guidelines. It's a case of fun factor greatly outweighing the little bits of commercialism around the edges of their webpages.

 

Does that just apply specifically to YouTube, or also similar competitor sites like Vimeo?