Many people set up websites that are very impressive but they want to add music. How do I put music on my website? A common question with an easy answer. Music files are embedded into a website using html code. This code is available free on the internet. A person with a music file can type in code that will play music in the background, show the player, not show the player, etc. HTML code can also be used to allow the visitor to listen to the music if they want by clicking a box and do many other things.
There are also internet businesses that, for a fee, will provide a person with the html code to copy and paste onto their website if they don’t want to do it themselves. Some of these businesses will send updates of code to change music on a regular basis. Which can also be done for free by typing in the correct html code.
Before adding music to a website it is important to think about some of the issues that can affect an internet business when music is added. The most important first step for adding music to a website is to be sure that the music that is being played is not copyrighted. If it is, then an individual wants to get permission from the group or singer before they add it to their site.
There are many visitors to a site who will not wait for music to load. If a file is over 45 KB it is likely that individuals with slower systems will exit the website before the music starts and the person with that website has lost a potential customer.
Music is a very personal and subjective thing. Unless the website is exclusive to a target audience that likes the same group or song, there will be people who will exit because they hate the music. These are customers who will not browse the site and will not make a purchase. They hate the music, they are gone.
One last consideration has to do with driving traffic. The goal of a growing business is to drive traffic “to” the site. If a person has an interesting site there are going to be individuals who are surfing the web at work and will look for that website. People aren’t supposed to do that, but they do. So they land on a website that someone told them was great and some song starts going off as soon as they open the site. The music on the site has alerted everyone within earshot, including the boss that “somebody” is doing something they aren’t supposed to be doing. As with any type of aversion therapy, the website has caused embarrassment or a bad experience and that person will not visit the site again.
