<< Home < Web Top Bottom Next >

Music Tutorial

Introduction

On these pages, I'm exploring various methods that can be used to play midi music. I have yet to find a perfect method, due to the variations in browsers and plug-ins.

I have worked with the following configurations under Windows 95:

  • NN (Netscape Navigator) 3.0 with LiveAudio and Crescendo.
  • NN 4.04 with LiveAudio, Crescendo and MidPlug.
  • NN 4.04 with no MIDI plugins.
  • MSIE (Microsoft Internet Explorer) 3.02 with Crescendo.
  • MSIE (Microsoft Internet Explorer) 4.0 with the default plugin.

If you encounter difficulties with this tutorial, I would enjoy hearing from you, especially if your configuration is something other than these. Please let me know what browser you're using and what operating system (Win95, Win 3.1, Mac, Linux, Unix, etc) you're using.

This tutorial is based on personal experience, primarily trial and error. The information presented here does not come from official sources. There are probably some inaccuracies. If I say something that you know to be incorrect, please let me know.

It's now been a couple of years since I put this tutorial together. There have been many changes in that time to both browsers and midi plug-ins, and some of this information may be out of date.


Direct links to the pages in this music tutorial:

mt01 Plug-ins
mt01 Using HREF
mt01 The EMBED and BGSOUND Tags
mt04     EMBED Example
mt05     BGSOUND Example (Without NOEMBED)
mt06     BGSOUND Example (With NOEMBED)
mt07     EMBED and BGSOUND example (with NOEMBED)
mt08     EMBED and BGSOUND example (without NOEMBED)
mt09 The Method I Use
mt10 The Code I Use

<< Home < Web Top Bottom Next >