Putting Music On The Cache Page

[+Birdsong-n-Bud]

I hope this isn't a duplicate post. My previous post asking this seems not to have taken.

 

How do I add a wav file to a cache page to make music play for effect when someone opens my cache page? HTML codes appreciated. And where do I upload the WAV file to, please?

 

Thanks again for all the terrific support here.

[+Moose Mob]

I guess we should start with the Markwell

 

Don't take it wrong, but, when you read that thread, please note the emphasis on not doing it. It's neat stuff when you do it, but drives folks nuts as they are looking at different pages.

[AJK]

Unless it's an integral part of a puzzle cache, please don't do it - it takes a while to load, is bad at work, and generally looked on as annoying. Sorry, I think that's the majority viewpoint.

 

Still, google is your friend:

 

Embed It

[+Kealia]

Ditto.

 

You're going to quickly see that the majority of posters in here will ask you kindly (hopefully) to NOT put music on your page.

 

As noted above, the exception is if it's part of the puzzle on the page.

Others have done the Mission Impossible soundstrack (as an example) to their page and it really is annoying.

 

Sorry. I know creatively it can be fun; it's just a bad user experience.

As an alternative, try putting a link on the page to the sound for those who do want it.

 

Choices are always appreciated .

[+Stunod]

If you MUST do it, please add the controls to the page so I can choose to play it if I want to (don't make it play automatically)

[+planetrobert]

DO NOT DO IT, resistance in NOT futile!!!

[+Nurse Dave]

Woah, too close to Christmas for you to be on the naughty list for doing something like that.

[+New England n00b]

I wanna know how you add music to a forum post.

[+planetrobert]

I wanna know how you add music to a forum post.

Please NO, if there really is a santa clause this is NOT possible.

[+New England n00b]

I wanna know how you add music to a forum post. 

Please NO, if there really is a santa clause this is NOT possible.

[+hedberg]

NO!! WHY!?

 

Music on a cache page is very annoying. Add some flashing javascripts and gif-animations and you have a personal homepage from 1995.

[+The Jester]

Hmm, I guess I'm on the other side. I don't mind a (short) sound file on a page. Just don't add something like Bolero.

 

And who said WAV files HAVE to be music?

[+New England n00b]

For a serious response (from me) why I don't care for it: I usually have music playing already - it is really quite disconcerting to be listening to Iron Man with a MIDI file of "Deck The Halls" or something playing off-time & off-key along with it.

[+ChileHead]

Add me to the "Please No!" list. It would be cool to have a soundtrack that was required to solve a puzzle cache, but it shouldn't automatically play. Make a link to the sound so you have to explicitly click it to get the sound.

[+Mopar]

Add me to the "Please no, unless it's part of a puzzle" list. Fortunately pretty much everything except posting a log I do offline via PQs, so I don't get to listen to any of that until I go to log a find.

[+The Leprechauns]

Add me to the "Please no, unless it's part of a puzzle" list. Fortunately pretty much everything except posting a log I do offline via PQs, so I don't get to listen to any of that until I go to log a find.

... so Mopar won't hear your MIDI file until three months after finding the cache.

 

I do feel guilty that nobody has answered the OP's question. Go to the other thread that was linked to earlier. There are some examples there of caches with sound. View the sourcecode for those pages.

 

I don't want to spell it out too clearly or else everyone will start doing it!

[avroair]

Add me to the "Please no, unless it's part of a puzzle" list. Fortunately pretty much everything except posting a log I do offline via PQs, so I don't get to listen to any of that until I go to log a find.

... so Mopar won't hear your MIDI file until three months after finding the cache.

You took the words right out of my mouth!!!!

[AJK]

I answered it up above...

 

Am I on the naughty list now?

[+The Leprechauns]

Whoops, sorry AJK, I missed that link as I scanned this topic. I think a link is subtle enough since I missed it.

 

But if a rash of cache pages with loud music on them should suddenly appear, I will blame you, and I will write to all the hiders in your area and encourage them to embed Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" on *all* of their cache pages, with a dedication to you.

[+Team Sydster]

It's also bad on the GSAK main page, depending where I stop I get bosun whistles or foghorns. Please give me a break here. Thanks......

[+benjamin921]

Music on a cache page is very annoying

 

Add me to the "Please No!" list.

 

please note the emphasis on not doing it.

 

and generally looked on as annoying.

 

You're going to quickly see that the majority of posters in here will ask you kindly (hopefully) to NOT put music on your page.

 

That'll bout sum it up.

[+Birdsong-n-Bud]

Add me to the "Please no, unless it's part of a puzzle" list.

 

LOL

 

Cracking up here!

 

This is actually part of a puzzle cache, but the music is not necessary to figuring it out. I think I'm going to think twice about doing it.

 

Rats. <g>

 

Thanks for the honest opinions.