[TheRelief]

Hey y'all. Does anyone know where I can find a simple cut and paste script for adding streaming audio.

You know how it's popular right now to have the little PLAY, PAUSE & STOP buttons where visitors to your site can hear a personal message from you?

Yeah, that's what I wanna do, but I think it's insane that people are paying monthly fees of like $20 a month to do it!

I did find a free javascript site that looked like it had something like I'm looking for, but I couldn't get it to work at all. I kept getting that error message about there being something wrong with the code. Here's the site in case you see anything that might help make it work:

http://javaboutique....m/AudioCentric/

TIA!!!

Edited by TheRelief, 24 September 2005 - 09:50 PM.

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What file extension are you trying to use for this??

Rockett

[Rockett]

What file extension are you trying to use for this??

Rockett

[TheRelief]

Do you mean the audio file? I did follow the instructions where it says to use Sound Recorder to convert it that a "g" something or other. I did do that, if that's what you mean, although it does still show as a .wav file even after converting it.

[lil_cat_luver]

Try this one http://javascript.in.../midi-menu.html seems much easier

[TheRelief]

Thanks for the input, but I'm looking for something with buttons. Since it's for a biz site, I want it to look a little more on the professional/polished side. Here's an example: http://www.conniecoach.com/.

If I could find a script that works like these buttons, but no flash, that's what I want to do.

[lil_cat_luver]

OK, try http://www.eborcom.c...ipts.html#sound it's a really simple javascript and only features the "play" function, but I'm sure it'll be easy to add a pause and stop function.

You can use your own play/pause/stop buttons, since the audio is controlled by a link on an image.

[TheRelief]

I was all excited about that one at first , except I don't understand how it plays. I added the script to a new page, changed the image and sound files to my own, but it doesn't play.

Doesn't there have to be some kind of embedded player of some kind? My sound file is a .wav and not .au, if that matters at all.

I should mention that I'm not a programmer at all so I need guidance in very literal terms.

[lil_cat_luver]

It doesn't matter what the file format is, I think. I'm not familiar with javascript, but since play is written as: function play() I suppose pause and stop would be: function pause() and function stop()

And the html coding would probably be <a href="ex5_:pause()"><img src="pause.jpg" border=0></a> or something like that.

From what I understand (which is not a lot...) the javascript opens up windows media player, but you can do some searching to change it to play in the background

[Rockett]

I think "bgsound" is the code that puts it in the background Lil.

[lil_cat_luver]

Rockett, would you use it like: function bgsound play ()?

I couldn't find any javascript tutorials that talked about pausing and stopping but I did find this one. It has a stop and start button, but of course you can also use your own.

It's a little weird looking, I think you need to have a silent file for jsilent.mid for it to work in IE4

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
ver=parseInt(navigator.appVersion)
ie4=(ver>3 && navigator.appName!="Netscape")?1:0
ns4=(ver>3 && navigator.appName=="Netscape")?1:0
ns3=(ver==3 && navigator.appName=="Netscape")?1:0

function playSound() {
if (ie4) document.all['BGSOUND_ID'].src='yourmusic.mid';
if ((ns4||ns3)
&& navigator.javaEnabled()
&& navigator.mimeTypes['audio/x-midi']
&& self.document.yourmusic.IsReady()
)
{
self.document.yourmusic.play()
}
}

function stopSound() {
if (ie4) document.all['BGSOUND_ID'].src='jsilence.mid';
if ((ns4||ns3)
&& navigator.javaEnabled()
&& navigator.mimeTypes['audio/x-midi']
)
{
self.document.yourmusic.stop()
}
}
//-->
</script>

<form name=myform>
<input type=button value="Play Sound" onClick="playSound()">
<input type=button value="Stop Sound" onClick="stopSound()">
</form>

[Rockett]

IE 4?? are you living in the stone age, dear?????



Rockett

[lil_cat_luver]

No, but I'm guessing IE 4, NS 3, and NS4 work differently than the more current browsers, so they need to have some special coding to fix it? Maybe it's just a really old javascript

And, *points to firefox button below* *kicks IE*