No Music in Mozilla

Hi,

I just downloaded Mozilla last week and am very happy with it.

I must not have all the plug in's necessary as sometimes I cannot hear the music that is suposed to be playing along with the site. For example,

http://www.qnet.com/~pontius/smile/smilelmp_1[1].htm

If I play it in Internet Explorer I get the music but not in Mozilla.

How can I find out what I am missing so I can hear music.

Also, I noticed that when someone sends me an email with the URL embedded in the email, the text and graphics appear correctly in the email but the songs (example: aintitfunny.mid) appear as attachments rather than playing along with the website.

Is there anyway to correct this?

Thanks for the help.

Jean

 

I will need to disappoint you.
That page is written by an early Microsoft's product and poorly coded.

Code:

<meta content= "MSHTML 5.50.4807.2300" name=GENERATOR>

As for the sound, you won't get any sound, no matter what plugin you installed.

See reason below...
1. No such tag as <COMMENT> in HTML standand. A MSIE only tag.
If it changed to <Script>, you will get sound.
2. <BGSOUND> is MSIE only tag as well.

I guess the author decided to turn off music for non-MSIE users.

Code:

<COMMENT language=javascript><!--
if ( navigator.appName == 'Netscape' ) {
document.write( '<embed src =  "http://www.debsfunpages.com/midi/rockinrobin.mid "
autostart= "true" hidden= "true" loop= "true" ></embed>' ); 
} else if ( navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer' ) {
document.write( '<bgsound src =  "http://www.debsfunpages.com/midi/rockinrobin.mid "
loop= "-1 ">' );
} else document.write( '<bgsound src =  "http://www.debsfunpages.com/midi/rockinrobin.mid "
loop= "-1 "><embed src =  "http://www.debsfunpages.com/midi/rockinrobin.mid "
autostart= "true" hidden= "true" loop= "true" ></embed>' );  //--> </COMMENT>
<bgsound balance=0
src= "http://www.debsfunpages.com/midi/rockinrobin.mid "
volume=0 
loop=infinite>

 

Anthony,

Thank you for helping me understand the problem. I receive many of this type of messages so when I do I at least will know it is not my computer. If I'm interested in really seeing and hearing the message, I'll save it and then open it in IE.

Thanks for explaining.

Jean

 

Another way to play music in Mozilla, (a bit complicated)

Open a tab with the URL of the music (MIDI file), in this case, http://www.debsfunpages.com/midi/rockinrobin.mid
Make sure you have QuickTime plugin installed.
(I am not sure about others, sorry)

How do you get the URL of the music file? Well, you need to View Source and then search for .mid or .au or .wav