MP3 Plugin

Bingo !!! Whoopee !!! and all other good words !! including Thank ya Lord

And Thanks to Ramona ..... I'm tickled pink. My opinion of Seamonkey and Mozilla is back at the top HA!

Your first message provided me a link to information and I'd been there twice before and there is just a whole bunch of information and links to go to but, the 3rd time which I did after posting my last message was the charm and I clicked on something which ended up being this link. .....
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Background_music_doesn't_play

(Once there I copied the link and saved it to a text file because it's too important to trust to a bookmark you can't find)

Here is the code I found that plays MP3 files in all my browsers except NS 4.76 and so who cares.

<object data= "music.mp3" type= "application/x-mplayer2" width= "0" height= "0 ">
<param name= "src" value= "music.mp3 ">
<param name= "autostart" value= "1 ">
<param name= "playcount" value= "infinite ">
</object>

There is no control panel, no delay, no nothing showing and as soon as the web page is on the screen so is the music. Just Exactly what I wanted for my web pages.

It is now TEST 7 on the web site I provided in my last message which is www.raysmyth.net/test

Going to the TEST 7 i.e. the above coding doesn't indicate any plugin logo or player or nothing but, I am assumming it is using a plugin.

Can you or Westside tell me which or what you think made the difference and what is making the thing work. I guess I am asking what media is playing the music.

I've told you I do things by trial and error and this has been one bunch of trials and errors but, it finally works just like I wanted it too and I'm thrilled.

Now I just want to understand why it works. I see the code reflects mplayer2. Isn't that the old windows built in player.

Thank you both so much for all the help -- Ray

 

Ray,

I was just about to send this Replay, when I saw your message. I'm really glad that it works for you now.

Don't mean to rain on your parade, but it doesn't work for me in IE, on your new Test 7. page.

I'll have to do some comparison before I can figure out the differences. I'm certainly no code expert, but always glad to share what little I know.


Below is what I've been doing for the last hour, previous to seeing your most recent Reply:

I ran through all 7 of your tests with five browsers:

Firefox 1.5.0.6
Mozilla 1.7.13
SeaMonkey 1.0.4
Netscape 7.2
IE 5.5 SP2

Test 1.
Worked in all browsers
Opened with QT, with the exception of IE, which opened in WMP

Test 2.
Worked in all browsers, opening in WMP

Test 3.
Worked in all browsers
This is a very old code, but worked fine

Test 4.
Worked in all browsers

Test 5.
Worked in all browsers
Opened with QT, with the exception of IE, which opened in WMP
The background of the console was because of the color code parameter

Test 6.
Worked in all browsers, except SeaMonkey

Test 7.
Worked in all Gecko browsers, but no in IE

BTW, the new Class ID for WMP has been changed to the following:
CLASSID= "6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6 "

Per W3C: http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_playerref.asp

There is a wealth of information on the above site for embedding, streaming, media player Class ID's, object tag, etc.

I just don't know what is going on with your setup, since I have no problems, with one exception on Test 7. with no sound using SeaMonkey...

 

It plays, using MCP in all gecko players, opening Windows Media Player, if checked. If not checked, and Quicktime is not checked, it will play anyway, bringing, sort of, the AOL Media Player. It is, basically, Winamp, except that I get only part of the AOL Player.
IE6 works as described. Maybe IE5.5 is the problem.

 

Ramona, I too need to do some more comparisons, But, thought I would tell you "I rained on my own parade a little ".

After your last post, I got on my second computer (Wifes) which has a Win-98 Hard Drive (Tray) in it and low and behold all the browsers worked on all the pages except the TEST 6 and for some odd reason none of the browsers would work with TEST 6. (TEST 6 is TEST 2 with the full URL Path removed)

Amazing, that my Win-98 played them all with all browsers (TEST 6 excluded).

All the more amazing that we have had so much of a mixed results between all the browsers and OS.

It kind of proves that regardless, of ones effort to make web pages work with all browsers it is next to impossible.

I think at this time I will use the coding on TEST 7 and go on down the road for awhile.

The thing that bothers me about this computer world is, does it have to be all this complex and complicated and I personally think not.

Since your Win-98 IE would not play TEST 7 and mine did, I checked the version of IE on my 98 setup and here is what it indicated.

Win 98 said Version 6.0.2800.1106 and down below that, it said Update version:;sp1;Q896688;Q833989;q313829

For what it's worth, My Win-XP IE said version 6.0.2900.2180.xp_sp2_gdr.050301.1510 and down below it said Update Version:;sp2;

I have no idea what it all means and with that many numbers who would.

I thank you and Westside for your assistants.

This has been a good excerise and I've learned some things.

I also think we found the best overall coding for MP3 files. -- Ray

 

Ray,
it is so confusing! You did a good job. I, still, don't understand why your mp3 files opened in the external player, using MCP.
I had an exchange with the author of MPC, and I saw an update. I have no t tested it.
By the way the version numbers of your operating systems indicate that Win98 has the only possible option, i.e. sp1, while WinXP can be updated to sp2.