With the growth of personal websites and blogs, the need to add a bit more zest to a website in order to help it stand out has become more important than ever. Therefore, knowing how to add music to your website might be a skill that you will want to eventually acquire. For sure, it is nowhere near as hard to do it as it was just several years ago.
Before you begin to add any music, you should first of all consider the kind of implications involved in adding such a large amount of information to your site. If it tends to slow download speeds for your visitors you may end up causing your visitors to just give up and surf to another site that doesn’t take as long to download. This is an important consideration.
After deciding to add music, the next thing to do is take a look at what sound format will be most convenient, not only for you but also your website visitors. Even though many people today probably have high-speed Internet available to them, there are still a large number who are surfing the Internet with a 56k modem. For those you might want to consider using a plain MIDI or.mid file.
However, if you’re more interested in presenting a high-quality listening experience in a file for your users you’re going to want to put your music on the website using an MP3 or.mp3 file. Such a file is higher quality than a MIDI and while it does take a bit longer to download using a 56k modem, most listeners would probably appreciate the quality evident in the file.
There are normally two different ways to add music. If you have a host, then you can upload your music using a file transfer protocol or FTP client. If you do not want to aggravate or bother your viewers with music that begins as soon as they land at your website you can still create a link and embed the music that way. This will require knowing just a few lines of HTML code.
The code for such a file is very easy. Just write it out anywhere in the body of the website, using the dashboard or control panel at the site — with the following code: music.mid. The file itself will be the item that goes between the quotation marks. With such a code you’ll be able to not only provide music but also a file that is very easy to manipulate by your visitors.
