Large music files can cause a webpage to load slowly. Using midi files for background music on a webpage can solve this problem
People email me with the question, “How do I put midi files on my page?” Here is the code of an embedded midi file I have on one of my webpages.I use EMBED src=”midifile.mid” width=145 height=30 autostart=true loop=true surrounded by brackets
midifile.mid is the name of the midi file in the same directory as the webpage. Width and height allow a console to display. If you do not want the player to display on the web page use a width and height of 1 or 2 (0 width and height has caused problems with some players.
If you want the file to automatically start playing when page is loaded use autostart=true If not, autostart=false
loop=true causes the file to play over and over, you can also have loop=false to only play once
Your WWW Browser can access MIDI files (or any files for that matter) and play them within Internet Explorer, or other browsers. In Internet Explorer, you can determine which program will play a midi file on the web Look in the “Programs” tab (under “Tools”, then “Internet Options…”). Select “Internet Programs/Set Programs/”Associate a File Type or protocol with a program”. You will see a list, look for “.mid or .midi” in the “Name” column. From those entries, you can see the program in the “Current Default” column. This determines what program will be used to play your midi when you click on a MIDI file on a www page.
Some midi files are “zipped” files to make then easy to download. If you are using “Winzip”, or another file zip utility program the zipped file can be played without alot of trouble. Make sure your unzip program is the default application to open .zip files. Then, you just click the mid file when your unzip program show the contents, and it plays!
Also, If you set up your Helper Apps to “play” the midi song when selected with a particular program, you can always save it (download it) instead of playing it by right clicking on a file and choosing the “Save Target as” to save the file to your hard drive. That way, you don’t have to delete your “Helper apps” entry for .mid files if you want to save it or have to hunt through your Temporary Internet Files directory, to find the file (which might have a temp name, like “GK8DETHN” or something)
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