Re: Audio

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Kevin <Kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> was very recently heard to
utter:
Thank you for taking time to reply. Can you expand on your comment
please to make it more useful. Thank you.

There is not much more to add. I suppose if I capitalise it, i.e.

PLEASE DON'T

it might make it more useful.

Strongarming a user's browser into playing a particular audio file is at
best neither here nor there. At worse it will aggravate the hell out of
your visitors (who may (like me) be listening to their OWN music and so have
no idea to have your music filtering through it; or may be on a
restricted-bandwidth connection where it would be jittery, in low quality,
and possibly cost a lot of money if the user is accessing through a GPRS
connection).

I know of no way to do it in Publisher, and if I did, I wouldn't tell you.

Most annoying website designers who want to push music at you will use Flash
to do it (and design the entire website in Flash, aggravating further
users).

There is a separate newsgroup for asking questions about web design. It is
microsoft.public.publisher.webdesign.

Re-reading your post, it appears you might not want to strongarm the user's
browser into playing.

The key here is to trust that the user has their media player configured
correctly. If they do, then the music will start to play when a sufficient
of the file has downloaded to allow theoretically seamless playback
(buffering). If the user is on a low-band connection, they are likely to
want to download the song before listening to be able to hear it at a
half-decent quality.

Websites have little or no control over third-party software on a user's
computer. The way to gain such control is to embed a plugin into the page
(e.g. Flash Player or a custom plugin you've written to do exactly what you
want). This would be easier to do in FrontPage than Publisher (as FrontPage
is actually designed for editing web pages, and has access to the source
HTML code through the IDE, etc.)

Although FrontPage is due to be discontinued in the next version of Office,
that is because what was FrontPage is being taken and rebranded as part of a
new electronic productivity suite as Expression Web Designer (or similar).
What would have been called FrontPage 12 is now being called Expression Web
Designer (or similar). So FrontPage isn't really being discontinued at all.

--
Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher


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