Adding Music and Sounds to Your Web Page

Your Web site may already be a feast for the eyes. Here’s how to make it a feast for your ears.

It's fun to include music files on your Web pages, especially during the holiday seasons. The easiest type of music files to add to Web pages are MIDI or WAV files.

Jack's Midi Music at www.discoverynet.com/~ajsnead/enter.html contains over 600 midi files categorized into areas such as "The Fifties and Sixties," etc. All are free.

Midicity at www.midicity.com has a wide variety of sound files. These sounds aren’t just songs but interesting noises and themes as well.

Midi Studio at http://midistudio.com/midi/MidFram.htm includes country music, middle of the road, oldies, easy listening, big-band, swing, jazz and more.

Midi of TV Theme Songs at http://dmoz.org/Arts/Television/Theme_Songs/ will fill the TV theme song fix. There are hundreds of free files of TV theme songs in both midi and wav format.

Here's how you add music to your Web site.

1) Upload your midi file to your web site.

2) In your HTML, use this tag:

<embed src=”musicfile.mid” autostart=true hidden=true loop=false>

(replace the “musicfile.mid” with the name of your midi file)

Here are some other sites you can get free midi's from:

• Bob Mace’s Midi Files - http://www.scottj.f9.co.uk/bobmidi.htm
  
• FindSounds - http://www.findsounds.com/types.html
  
• Nifty Songs - http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/music.htm
  
• A-1 Free Sound Effects - http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com

The following site provides some additional information on adding music and sounds to web pages: Embedding Sound in Web Pages - http://www.wdvl.com/Multimedia/Sound/

Please note that most of this information is from the article “Web music to your ears” by Vashon Borich that appeared in the Waterloo Courier on March 22, 2004.

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Created by Morgan Johnson
East Buchanan Community School Tech Team
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