Client wants full-length .mp3's on her web site, don't know what to do!!!

BlackReef · Jul 25th, 2007, 10:03

The web page is here:

http://www.amandacarpenterphotography.com

What my client wants is for a song to play when you first show up at the site, with the ability to pause/play at any point when browsing. She also wants teh same song to continue to play as you browse different pages on the site..

I found a tutorial on how to add .mp3's to the web site but it took FOREVER to load (like 90 seconds on DSL)

So I know there is a fast, efficient way to play songs on web sites. I have seen them in flash on other web sites.

Also, I do not even know if XML is the best way to approach this.

please help!!!!
-Joe

Marc · Jul 25th, 2007, 10:31

What song does she want playing? Ive heard that you cant play a song over 1 min or it will be infringing copyright. Mabey you should have a look into that first.

pa007 · Jul 25th, 2007, 13:24

Simple, don't do it. Perhaps have a flash media player somewhere on the page if you must do it but otherwise don't bother. Users don't want their ears assaulted when they load the page. And there is the issue of copyright and its less than a minute as far I'm aware. It's more around the ten second mark.

Pete.

JustinStudios · Jul 25th, 2007, 14:37

There is one thing you guys overlooked... It's a photographers website. Most of the photographers websites I have done, if they want it they get it. Just the way most of them are. So I'd suggest checking copyrights, if its not a song owned by her then make sure SHE gets the right to use it. After that, I'd suggest learning how to use hidden pop-ups to play the song. If she wants it to be endless your gonna have to use JavaScript or Ajax (Basically the new JavaScript as it uses JavaScript) to load your content dynamically, while still staying on the same page.

BlackReef · Jul 25th, 2007, 20:19

Ok, is their a tutorial out there on how to do load the music with a popup?

Kropotkin · Aug 16th, 2007, 13:46

Hi BlackReef

Obviously copyright is one problem. Lets assume your client owns the copyright.

you can use frames to do this. but this means using frames on the whole site. You would just load an MP3 player (such as Flash) into the 1 px frame at the top of each screen.

I'm not so sure about the hidden popup approach though it is basically the same principal. You could try googling for 'hidden popup'. I think frames are better a) because there is no problem with popups being blocked b) Google Adwords (if your client is using this) doesn't like hidden popups on a landing page and c) in your case if your client wants controls I think this will be easier to implement using frames. If you want to keep it really simple you could have the controls in the same frame as the Flash (or other MP3) player.

So my suggestion would be to do a simple frameset with the flash player and some controls for it as a thin frame - say at the top or footer depending on the design of the site

Of course you will still need to work out how to do a) frames and b) a simple Flash page