Use MIDIS In Email & On Web Pages

How do I add MIDIS to my email or web page?

Always transload the music files you want to use to your own homepage provider or you will be guilty of bandwidth theft.

Adding music to your email or web page can create a mood or an atmosphere or just make your page more interesting. Here's how to do it with WebTV:

First you need a song to add. To get the URL (internet address), find a midi that you like. After you click the song & it is playing, Push "GoTo", then "Show Last". Now the URL is in the "Address:" box. Copy the URL using Cmd-c. Then paste it using Cmd-v to place the URL between the quotation marks in one of the following tags.

Make a text link
Use the anchor tag to play music by clicking on text:
<a href="URL_of_your_song.mid">
Song Title
</a>
will look like this:
Rock With You

Make an image link
<a href="URL_of_your_song.mid">
<img src="URL_of_your_image">
</a>
will look like this:

To find MIDI's, I suggest MIDI Explorer and vanBasco.

Play music in the background 2 ways

Use the bgsound tag <bgsound src="URL_of_your_song" loop="?">
The song will start automatically. Replace "?" with the number of times you want the song to play. For continuous play, use loop="true"
This tag is recognized by MSIE & is designed to be used in the head of a web page, but will work anywhere for WebTV:

<html>
<head>
<title>
Title of your page
</title>
<bgsound src="URL_of_your_song" loop="?">
</head>
<body>
Rest of Page
</body>
</html>
Use the embed tag
<embed src="URL_of_your_song" autostart="true" loop="?">
If you use autostart, the song will start automatically.
If you leave it out, a speaker or "play tune" image will appear that can be clicked on to start the music.
Replace "?" with the number of times you want the song to play. For continuous play, use loop="true".
This tag is recognized by Netscape Navigator & is designed to be used in the body of a web page.
Putting it farther down in your code should allow the viewer to see part of the page before the music starts.

<html>
<head>
<title>
Title of your page
</title>
</head>
<body>
Rest of Page
<embed src="URL_of_your_song" autostart="true" loop="?">
</body>
</html>
To avoid bandwidth theft, some homepage providers such as Tripod & Geocities don't allow remote linking to MIDI files, so your midi won't play when you use the <bgsound> or <embed> tags in your email.
To make them work you need to create a page with just the midi on it, then embed that page in your email. Of course, you have already transloaded the song to your own account.
First create the page & name it something like my_song1.html:

<html>
<body>
<embed src="URL_of_your_song" autostart="true" loop="true">
</body>
</html>

Now embed this page in your email:

<embed src="URL_of_my_song1.html">

Now go boogie with your favorite tunes!

Music pages by Gnubee

Midnight Midis
After Hours (light jazz & fusion)
Love That Latin
Let's Get Funky
Midnight Mods

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This page was inspired by questions presented at ADWH & Html.Help.Gnubee