Music On A Cache Page

[+Chaz]

I've come across a few cache pages with tunes on them. How do I get music on a cache page?

[+Doc-Dean]

I can tell you most people find musical cache pages annoying at best, some of the other comments I've heard about them I would not post in a family oriented forum.

[+JohnnyVegas]

I agree with Doc, I do not like music of cache pages, it is annoying in the same league as finger nails on a black board, as annoying as screaming kids in a nice restaurant, as annoying as missing a FTF close to your home because you went on vacation, as annoying as being stuck behind some one going 20 MPH at 2AM when you are trying to get a FTF, as annoying as watching a politician on TV knowing if his lips are moving he's lying. What can I say- I hate music in cache pages

[+forman]

NO MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don

[+JohnnyVegas]

Don, why are you at home and not caching

[+LthrWrk]

I dont care how good a webpage might be.. but any music and I leave that page. It is the most annoying thing someone can create on a webpage.

[+hedberg]

WHY!?

 

The only time I might see a reason if it is a mystery cache and you must listen to a WAV-file (or similar) to solve the mystery. Otherwise - NOOOOOOOOO MUSIC!

 

It is also annoying with flashing things, fiftynine different fonts in 20 different colors, and a lot of junk written especially for IE or Netscape or something else...

 

Keep it clean and simple...

 

And very often do not people think that a lot of users have PQ, and it can be horrible to see what is on the cache page on a monochrome screen on a PDA, if people have a lot of colors on the cache page.

Edited November 22, 2004 by hedberg

[+JohnnyVegas]

I am glad we do not have top deal with POP UP also, what a nightmare that would be, imagine you are reading a caches page and the owner of the cache has his other pages poping up.

[+forman]

Johnny,

 

I got stuff around the house to do

 

Maybe latter

 

Don

[+Markwell]

It can be done using HTML, but as many have said - embedding midi music or wav files is generally not liked.

[+Sputnik 57]

The main reason I don't like it is because every time I open one of those pages at work, my computer crashes. Admittedly, I am running Windows 98 and IE 6.0.28 (having recently upgraded from stone tablet and chisel), but still . . .

 

No fun to lock up the computer while browsing caches (when I should be working).

[Deego]

If you want music why not put a "Click here to hear the music" link in.

[+Sputnik 57]

If you want music why not put a "Click here to hear the music" link in.

That's a great idea! There for those who want to hear it. Safe for me to browse.

[+Damenace]

I've come across a few cache pages with tunes on them. How do I get music on a cache page?

Apparently no one wants to answer your question, because they don't like sound on YOUR cache page. Check out THIS LINK. Hope it helps.

[+Nurse Dave]

If I'm here and you're here, isn't it *our* time?

[+CompuCash]

DO NOT PUT MUSIC OR SOUND ON A CACHE PAGE!!!

[+Kealia]

DO NOT PUT MUSIC OR SOUND ON A CACHE PAGE!!!

And please, no obnoxious fonts or colors!

[+JohnnyVegas]

obnoxious fonts or colors! I can read those without my reading glasses

Edited November 23, 2004 by JohnnyVegas

[+wimseyguy]

Just don't do it! Also keep jumping, spinning, moving, objects off of the wallpaper. I am looking at your cache pag because I want information necessary to hunt your cache. The entertainment part comes while I'm on the hunt.

[+CompuCash]

Check out this page -

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...cd-e6324fbb4b4b

 

and tell me you want to hear that every time you go to the page -

 

or worse, notice that is starts with a number - it sorts before letters -

 

GSAK comes up everytime with this blasting at me - finally found a cache with a lesser number to add in front of it.

 

It is loud even with my volume down to about 25%

 

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music files take a lot of time to download - this angers most with modem connections.

Edited November 23, 2004 by CompuCash

[+Thot]

This chap has lots of caches in my area, and many have this sound. I startles me every time I land on one of his cache pages. It may not seem like much when you hear it once but about the 10th time that happens in a 20 minute session your nerves start sending out static electricity signals. Edited November 23, 2004 by Thot

[rescue557]

I've come across a few cache pages with tunes on them. How do I get music on a cache page?

Please no music on a page!

 

(I don't know why someone invented it, but I wish they didn't.)

[+AuntieWeasel]

This chap has lots of caches in my area, and many have this sound.  I startles me every time I land on one of his cache pages.  It may not seem like much when you hear it once but about the 10th time that happens in a 20 minute session your nerves start sending out static electricity signals. 

Oh, geez, Thot, that was HORRIBLE. I couldn't resist clicking on the link. Unfortunately, I was wearing headphones. Or fortunately, considering I'm in an office.

[+The Leprechauns]

As a rough estimate, I've opened well in excess of 5,000 cache pages, more than a hundred of which had sound files. A grand total of one cache page had sound effects that I liked. For that cache, the spooky background music actually added to the experience of reading about the mystery that unfolds in the multicache. It actually made me want to try the cache, and someday I shall.

 

None of the other examples of sound effects have done much for me, other than to annoy me.

 

Respect those odds.

 

Oh, I almost forgot the link to The Devil's Panties

[+GeoBrowns]

The only one I have come across so far that I didn't find annoying is Wait Until Dark and only because it's short and really fits this cache. I have heard it's many people favorite one by the way and we have plans to do it soon.

[+Sputnik 57]

I've come across a few cache pages with tunes on them. How do I get music on a cache page?

Do you think we've bludgeoned Chaz into submission on this topic? I guess he can lock the thread if he's had enough.

[+JohnnyVegas]

I must say, I have never seen a topic in which so many people were of the same opinion.

[+fly46]

Ditto here, JV..

 

I think that the problem with sound is that most of the sounds aren't neccessary for the cache. Nor are they related. It would be one thing to do a cache related to Rascal Flatts and have their music as background, but since 99.9% of the sounds are just there because someone figured out how to do it.........

 

I say leave it off unless you have some really really really really really really really really really really really really really good reason to put it there - and even then, give it a second (or third) thought before you do.

[+SixDogTeam]

Thanks, Damenace for answering the OP's question. Now that we know where to go to learn how to do music, we're going to put some sound on ALL our cache pages!!!! Patrick especially likes Boatswain's Whistle...We love music on cache pages!!Woohoo!

[+g_team]

Wow I am glad I have read these responces. I am wondering though what if a sound or tune actually was part of the clue/solution to the find would that be acceptable?

[ThePup]

IE 6.0.28 (having recently upgraded from stone tablet and chisel), but still . . .

IE 6 is most certianly not an upgrade to a stone tablet and chisel... Very much a downgrade IMHO

[+LthrWrk]

Wow I am glad I have read these responces. I am wondering though what if a sound or tune actually was part of the clue/solution to the find would that be acceptable?

 

I would pass on the page regardless whether it was a clue or not.

[+AtoZ]

As Thumper, from Bambi, would wasy "If you can't say something nice then don't say nothing at all." Shees the person asl a SIMPLE question if you CAN'T answer it then DON'T lecture him on you pet peeves. If you don't like music then why do you have a sound card. I read this thread because it might contain some good info but NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It contained more trash then. O'well There was a resent thread on the GeoCachign Topics forum that delt with pictures and music on a webpage so check it out Sorry I dont have the link at had but I copied it just last week.

cheers

[+Jamie Z]

Shees the person asl a SIMPLE question if you CAN'T answer it then DON'T lecture him on you pet peeves.

More than a pet-peeve, music on cache pages is an internet faux pas.

 

Based on the OP's question, people responded by alerting him of this breach of etiquette. I didn't see any ill will toward the person, just repeated discouragement from doing something that is frowned upon.

 

There's no reason to get out of hand from people expressing their opinions.

 

Jamie

[Hogarth]

Did I miss something here? The man asked a simple question. He did not ask for a personal opinion, otherwise this thread would have been labled, WHAT DO YOU THINK - SOUND OR NO SOUNDS ON A CACHE PAGE

 

HERE IS THE ANSWER TO YOUR Q. THAT NO ONE ELSE WILL POST!!!

 

Before we begin know this!!..

 

Groundspeak will not let you upload sound files to them. It takes too much hard driver space due to their size. Therefore you must link to them from an external source.

 

With that said, you need to obtain a sound file and then put that sound file somewhere on the world wide web. When you signup with an Internet Service Provider (ISP) they normally give you WEBSPACE. This Space is where you need to upload your sound files to. You'll need to talk to your Web Service Provider to find out how to do this. My ISP is Charter Communications and I have 5 Megs of Had drive space for a Website, and I use it to store among other things, Sound Files.

 

In the body or short description of your cache page simply use the following code to link to the sound. Replace the "http://www.somesound.com.midi" with the path to your sound file. FYI - Loop = 2 tells the web browser to play the song two times.

 

<bgsound src="http://www.somesound.com.midi" loop="2">

 

Save your cache page, and then open it. When the page opens, the sound will play automatically. This method is the simpliest code I know and please note, sounds might not play due to the various web browsers. I know on my cache page if I use Internet Explorer you get the sound, but if I use Modzilla or Netscape there is no sound.

 

For all of you who hate sound on cache pages. There is HTML code out there to embed a media player display and if you want to hear the sound, you simply click the media player's play button. Otherwise the cache page is displayed as normal without the annoying sound.

[+Thot]

There is HTML code out there to embed a media player display and if you want to hear the sound, you simply click the media player's play button. Otherwise the cache page is displayed as normal without the annoying sound.

A link to that would be constructive. In fact, it seems like out of respect for our fellow man . . . err. . . person, any instruction for how to add sound should include such a link.

Edited December 15, 2004 by Thot

[The_Brownies]

Ripped this from a website. Not sure if GSpeak allows the EMBED tag to be used, even though it is HTML.

 

To add sounds to a web page... we will use the <EMBED> tag. This tag supports many common file formats... such as .wav, .mid, and .au. Here is the basic structure of the tag:

 

<embed src="filename.ext" width=x height=x autoplay=x hidden=x loop=x volume=x></embed>

 

If you want the file to automatically play when the web page is loaded, set autoplay=true, if you do not want the file to automatically start, set autoplay=false. If you want the control box to be hidden, use the hidden=true attribute. Normally the file will stop playing after it is completed the first time, so if you want it to start over once it is done use the attribute loop=true. You can set the volume setting with the volume attribute, a value from 1 to 100 (default is 50). The control box size that plays the sound can vary from browser to browser, but some versions of Netscape won't show the box at all unless you specify. (145 and 60 are usually good)

 

Example of the embed tag...

 

<embed src="http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/davesite.wav" loop=true autoplay=false width=145 height=60></embed>

 

 

NOTE: Because this embed tag was not set to autoplay=true, you will need to click the play button to play the sound file.

 

You may use multiple embed tags within one page, but it is recommended to never set more than one on autoplay. It is also not recommended to use .wav or .au files in the embed tag, because they are very large and take a few minutes to download. (.mp3 also falls into the category of "too large to use".)

[+Sputnik 57]

Now THAT is a helpful post. I wish every cache placer read the forums. Music at my discretion. I may just e-mail that code to local cachers Bosun (who plays a navy whistle) and Babslover (who plays Streisand music on his/her pages!)

[The_Brownies]

These guys know what they are talking about.

 

They have another good alternative to playing sounds. They simply link to a song and leave it up to the viewer to play the song or not.

[+Birdsong-n-Bud]

See, I'm bummed. I really thought the music here added to the personality of this cache page.

 

*sigh*

[uranium geranium]

how bout just leaving the speakers turned off on the PC? works for me.

[+Jeeping Family]

I tried every link here, and not a single one had music that would come up on this computer.

[+Thot]

I tried every link here, and not a single one had music that would come up on this computer.

Are you boasting?

[+IV_Warrior]

I must say, I have never seen a topic in which so many people were of the same opinion.

I must say I've never seen a topic in Getting Started where so many people went OFF-TOPIC by stating their personal feelings, instead of answering the poster's question. Fortunately, a couple cachers finally came through with the answers, hopefully, the OP didn't lose faith and quit reading the thread before someone finally gave a good answer......you'd think the mods would have stepped in and reminded people to stick with the topic of HOW to put music on cache pages, and take the SHOULD YOU put music on cache pages to a different thread......

[+Nurse Dave]

Na, if he would have gotten the info to start with then it might have happened. Would you tell someone what kind of shovel to buy if they asked how to bury a cache?

[+IV_Warrior]

Na, if he would have gotten the info to start with then it might have happened. Would you tell someone what kind of shovel to buy if they asked how to bury a cache?

No, I'd tell 'em to find a natural depression to put the cache in, and cover it with a wide flat rock

[+Moose Mob]

Na, if he would have gotten the info to start with then it might have happened.  Would you tell someone what kind of shovel to buy if they asked how to bury a cache?

No, I'd tell 'em to find a natural depression to put the cache in, and cover it with a wide flat rock

But, that wasn't his question, was it?

[+BadAndy]

I don't hear the noises either, maybe it's a firefox thing. If you do need audio on your cache page, in order to find the cache, just post a link to the audio file as I have in This cache.

 

It makes it faster to load the cache page, and they don't have to listen to it every time they visit.

[+BadAndy]

If you insist on embedding sounds on your page, heres the tutorial.