MIDI Music on your page

You can add another dimension to your pages by attaching music to them. By including music saved as a general MIDI file you are able to supply relatively long pieces of music in a small file. The example file on this page is ~32K. The same music clip recorded to a System sound file is ~1.1 Mb and the audio quality much better.

The downside with MIDI files is that the reader (or should I say listener) must have an extension installed that can handle playback of MIDI files and that you don't know exactly how it is going to sound.

KM's Multimedia Plug is one of many Netscape Navigator extensions that are able to handle MIDI files if QuickTimeTM Musical Instruments are installed in the readers systems.

Listen to the music:

<A HREF="wheels.mid">[Play Music]</A>

The wheels are spinning
by Jan Paulics.

A music clip made especially for PageSpinner.
Made with Macintosh PowerPC, Roland Super JV-1080 and Cubase 3.04.
© MPC, 1996.

Contact Jan Paulics jan.paulics@mailbox.swipnet.se for additional information.

How to use:

Use the topic Embedded Object : Audio in HTML Assistant to add MIDI music to your page. The HTML tags for the example above looks like this:

<EMBED SRC="wheels.mid" WIDTH="146" HEIGHT="16" AUTOSTART=True LOOP=True CONTROLLER=True CONTROLS=SMALLCONSOLE> <NOEMBED><A HREF="wheels.mid">[Play Music]</A></NOEMBED> Note that the attribute CONTROLS=SMALLCONSOLE is required to make the LiveAudio plug-in (distributed with Navigator 3) display a visible control.

Also note that Netscape Navigator 4.0b5 (and possible 4.0) for some reason doesn't seem to work with this example.