Unless you do something user-hostile like put your entire site in a
frameset, and use one frame of that frameset for your music player and
its controls, you won’t be able to accomplish what you’re describing
as your goal. Web servers and browsers don’t work that way. Each time
you navigate to a different page in your site, a completely new page
replaces whatever page was previously in your browser – and
everything that’s on it, including the music. Each request for the
music player stands completely alone, and thus knows nothing of the
request that came before it. (And there’s no way to tell the player
“start playing from the third chorus” either.)
But the trade-offs of this approach are really really expensive. For
one thing, nobody will be able to bookmark a page in your site, only
the outermost frameset. Second, search engines will index the
individual pages in your site, not the outer frameset containing them,
and anyone who visits your site from such a search engine will only
see these inner pages, not the full experience with the outer frameset
and the music player. So it’s lose-lose for you and the users.
If you want to provide a background music experience, I recommend the
following: First, make a button on each page that says “launch music
player”. Never make music load when the page does – it’s an instant
and often violently emotional thing to have the browser start making
noise, and usually sets off a frantic search for the “make it stop”
button if your content is compelling, or an instant Command-W if not.
Second, have that button open a tiny Spawn New Window window, with
your player in it and in that particular case, the player can be set
to auto-start. The visitor can return to your main window and the
music will continue to play as long as the secondary player window
remains open.
But always remember whose browser it is, Don’t assume that just
because the user clicked a link that they want a music track, or that
they are in a location where music is expected, or they aren’t playing
something unrelated in iTunes.
Walter
On Mar 11, 2011, at 6:40 AM, U. Wiese wrote:
Hello, I’m having a Problem with “Background sound” in FW5.5 Express:
I just had changed an existing background sound, (MP.3) which I had
installed on the site, (and which was
correctly working) to another MP3-file, which also should start and
run
PERMANENT as a Loop when visiting any site.
The effect now is, that the sound starts when entering the site, but
alway
starts new when clicking to any other site.
-which means, the music is not CONTINUOUSLY going on, but always
starts from
the beginning.
I’ve no idea how to get this changed…??
Anyone has any idea to this problem? thx in advance
weise
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