How to Add Music To Your Forum

[Simpsons Rule]

To put music/sound on your board place this code in your headers or footers.

<bgsound src="URL OF MUSIC" loop="X">

X is the number of times you want the sound to loop. Remember to that you can only play sounds that your browser will recognize. I recomend .wav or .mid

Find a piece of music you'd like to use on your Board and upload it to a host. I recommend angelfire.com If you can't find any music that is .wav or .mid go to download.com and search for music converter. You can download a free one there.

If you want your music to loop continously, place a very large number for X.

[Silkstar]

I also have a music site: www.starlightmks.com/ in the left side, it has "Music" click on one of those and it opens on the right side. Paste the code on your. Use the alternate code if you are on Neopets.

[rob1991]

wowsa that took me a long time getting my code to work iv fitted a player into mine =]

I want to know how to do lots of songs so it isnt just the one
Anyone able to help ;D

Ok also my forum keeps lagging up. I click a board and it just does nothing

[JZSquared]

rob1991 said:

wowsa that took me a long time getting my code to work iv fitted a player into mine =]

I want to know how to do lots of songs so it isnt just the one
Anyone able to help ;D

Ok also my forum keeps lagging up. I click a board and it just does nothing

Well that code will just play one song, they used to have music codes that played multiple songs with a drop down list, but I can't seem to find them anymore. You might want to use Google to find something like that, or just browse other coding boards. And your lag might be the number of codes you have on your message boards, or it might be lag from your ISP. You might want to limit how many codes you put into your message boards. Also ask if other members are experiencing the same problems, if they are not, then it's possibly your computer, you may not have enough RAM or again it could be a slow internet connection.

[rob1991]

Yeh all my members on my forum are complaining about it now. Plus i do have a drop down menu thing.. I sent ages getting it working last night.. What happens is you go on my forum.. click a board and it just freezes so you have to open another window ':l

However when i remove the music there is no lag or nothing so it must
be the music but where else can i put the music.. im not good at making decent websites

Il give you the code to the drop down menu if you want and if im alowed to post it here It will have my red hot chili pepper songs on though ;D

[JZSquared]

Try this code instead:

<object id="darkplayer" codeBase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701" type="application/x-oleobject" height="0" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." width="0" classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95">
<param NAME VALUE>
<param NAME="ShowControls" VALUE="0">
<param NAME="ShowStatusBar" VALUE="0">
<param NAME="ShowDisplay" VALUE="0">
<param NAME="DefaultFrame" VALUE="Slide">
<param NAME="Loop" VALUE="True">
</object>
<form name="form">
<p style="text-align: center">
<select style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF; WIDTH: 250px; COLOR: #00000; font-face: Arial" name="playlist" size="1">
<option value="0">JukeBox</option>
<option value="1">Kiss and say goodbye</option>
</select><br>
<target="_new">
<input TYPE="BUTTON" target="_blank" NAME="darkplay"  VALUE="Play Song" OnClick="play(document.forms['form'].playlist);" >
<input TYPE="BUTTON" NAME="darkpause" VALUE="Pause" OnClick="document.darkplayer.Pause(); playstate=2;">
<input TYPE="BUTTON" NAME="darkstop" VALUE="Stop The Music" OnClick="document.darkplayer.Stop(); playstate=2;"></p>
</form>
<script language="JavaScript">// Jukebox Script
// - Created by pokecheatmaster/cheathouseadmin
// - Created using songs found on the internet
// - DO NOT DELETE THIS HEADER!
<!--
var playstate = 1;
songs=new Array();
songs[0]="MusicBox.wma"
songs[1]="http://hits.mididb.com/19580222/Manhattans/Kiss_and_Say_Goodbye.mid";
if (shuffle =0){
var randsg = Math.floor(Math.random()*songs.length);
document.darkplayer.FileName = songs[randsg];
document.darkplayer.scr = songs[randsg];
document.forms['form'].playlist.options[randsg].selected = true;
}
function play(list) {
if (playstate =0) {
document.darkplayer.Play();
} else {
var snum = list.options[list.selectedIndex].value
document.darkplayer.FileName = songs[snum];
document.darkplayer.scr = songs[snum];
}
playstate = 1;
}
//-->
</script>

And most people put it in their main page footer. Always remember to get permission from the artist/record label before using their music because it is copyright infringement and you can get in trouble for it. Also it is a Proboards TOS violation so if someone reports you, your boards will be deleted. So instead play your own original music, or find music on the net that you will be allowed to your music player.

To Edit The Code:
Change the portions stated: <option value="x">text</option>, simply change the text in the middle to the title that you want displayed in the drop down menu that correlates with the song in the list. I wouldn't recommend changing the first option value, or the first song in the list labeled as such: songs[0]="MusicBox.wma". To add songs simply add another songs[x]="URL"; changing the "x" to the next number in the sequence and replacing the URL with the url of the song file. Also to add a song title in the drop down menu simply add another: <option value="x">text</option>, change the "x" in the option value tag to the next number in the sequence correlating with the next song in the second list. Change the text to the title of the music track that will be displayed in the drop down menu.

[demosthenes]

is there a music photobucket? Like a place wher eyo utake a song and get the url for it or no?

[JZSquared]

demosthenes said:

is there a music photobucket? Like a place wher eyo utake a song and get the url for it or no?

There is a video upload on Photobucket now, I don't know if that would work or not since sound files are similar to video files. Though you could always use Google to look up hot linking image hosts. Since you'll need one that will allow you to hot link your sound file to your message boards.

[RedSuperNova]

is there a code to have the music/sound in your profile?

[Simpsons Rule]

redsupernova said:

is there a code to have the music/sound in your profile?

None that I've been able to find. You can't set headers/footers in profile pages only, so if a code does exist, it's very complicated.

[~* Bowtie Baby *~]

demosthenes said:

is there a music photobucket? Like a place wher eyo utake a song and get the url for it or no?

Go to www.zupload.com that should help you out.