The major html commands for sound

The safest opion ( but not the best quality) make a cross platform/cross browser compatiable sound file in low quality 8bit sampling (.au), to place it on your page use the following tag:

<embed src=soundfile name>

Background sound

The tag is supposedly only IE explorer readeable. I note that Netscape 3 can launch it but in a fairly unreliable manner. Works fine from the desktop but when you download it it goes strange. The tag will be recognized as long as it contains .wav, .au or .midi documents.

Control buttons and functions

If you want controls visible and activesuch as this sound panel use the following tags:

<controls= insert what you want from the options listed below>

  • console
  • smallconsole
  • playbutton
  • pausebutton
  • stopbutton
  • volumelever

You can also re-size these elements using the <width=number of pixels height=number of pixels> tag. Also use the align tags with which you are familiar to specify placement.

Example

Other elements that you can specify include the <loop= insert what you want from the options listed below>

  • "a specific number " (so the clock can strike a particular hour when you use the sampled sound of a chime in different places to indicate a different time of day.
  • "true" if you state this option your sound will be a true loop that never stops.
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Example of a 5 minute (non streaming soundfile)

Example

Another way of getting larger files to the end user is to compress them into self expanding archives and allowing the user to use ftp protocol to retrieve the file .