help (mp3 and xanga related)

[Ky Kiske]

alright I have this awesome song (in My Music) that I want for my background on xanga but the site won't let me because it want's a direct link, and I've tried alot of stuff but nothing works, like uploading it on my message board, trying to email it to my self, trying to start a free webpage and put it there but nothing seems to be working. Any suggestions?

[Slater]

mp3s (or any music for that matter) + playing in the backgrond of a website automaticly without giving the browser much of a way to control it = one of the top 1 bad things that people do to their website, especially with mp3s. reasons being (1) people most of the time have their personal media player already going on their computer and (2) there are still 56k and even 28.8k modem users out there. For them, downloading mp3s is quite an adventure, and one embedded in a page would make it take forever to load.


The best solution is this: upload your song to http://www.savefile.com and post a link to the song in your xanga somewhere noticible on the page and tell people it's really kewl. This will keep everyone happy.

But truly, <embed src="*.mp3" etc> stuff should only be used for flash images and stuff like that. If you really need to have that song up there tho, do it midi style. I'll even host the midi on my site for you and you can direct-link to it from your xanga.

[Godly Paladin]

Thanks for that link, Frwl. I've been looking for something like that.

[Ky Kiske]

alright I'll use savefile thanks.